Dad advice sharing thread.
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@Bones said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@Virgil I spent many a spell in Wallaceville. That BMX track down by the river was the best in Welly too.
Loved the Hutt, lived there till I was 16. Parents owned a dairy, best years of my life growing up. Free junk food and the pretty fellow teenage girls working behind the counter with you while your mates looked on with envy
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@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
boys have been back at soccer for about a month? and because it's outside we do get to watch.
Eldest is in his first year of competitive. Loving the challenge.
Youngest has been bumped to the age group above him, and he fucking loves it. Bigger field, more structure. I wish he played rugby though...
Poofter.
I blame the lack of male role model parent.
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@booboo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
boys have been back at soccer for about a month? and because it's outside we do get to watch.
Eldest is in his first year of competitive. Loving the challenge.
Youngest has been bumped to the age group above him, and he fucking loves it. Bigger field, more structure. I wish he played rugby though...
Poofter.
I blame the lack of male role model parent.
Apparently the kid was originally into rugby, then he busted into his dads bedroom one evening and now he's into soccer... Weird.
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@voodoo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@booboo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
boys have been back at soccer for about a month? and because it's outside we do get to watch.
Eldest is in his first year of competitive. Loving the challenge.
Youngest has been bumped to the age group above him, and he fucking loves it. Bigger field, more structure. I wish he played rugby though...
Poofter.
I blame the lack of male role model parent.
Apparently the kid was originally into rugby, then he busted into his dads bedroom one evening and now he's into soccer... Weird.
My pa did used to call Soccer "Kiss and Cuddle"....
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@raznomore said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@Virgil nice which one?
Can’t remember the name just that it was on the main drag before Upper Hutt, maybe Silverstream?
That would have been around 85 - 87 -
@voodoo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@Virgil my kids don't believe me when I tell them that some lollies used to be 5 for 1c...
Had similar disbelief with mine. Was telling them how when they phased out the 1c and 2c coins that my local diary started offering some lollies at 20 for 5cents!
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@voodoo True story. On my tenth birthday I bought 50 cents worth of mixed lollies on the way to school, it was a big fuckoff bag of all sorts of the bastards. Heaven. When I turned around from the counter in the dairy I bumped (literally) into Miss Everett the school dental nurse. She says "I hope you're not going to eat all those yourself". Ha ha. Sure as eggs later that day I got the call to attend the murder house where she drilled out half of one of my molars and put in a shit filling that still gives me grief to this day. So for my tenth birthday I got a pointless filling. Miss Everett, if you're reading you are a malicious old bag.
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@JC was that at Raumanga Primary?
HAted the murder house there, even though one of the dental nurses was a Great Aunt!
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@taniwharugby Raumanga intermediate. The Otaika Dairy had an awesome lolly selection back then.
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@JC that they did!
Used to love going to buy the olds a pack of smokes and get the change for lollies...18c popsicles too haha
I dont think Raumanga intermediate had a murder house when I was there...
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@taniwharugby The murder house was by the playground facing towards Murdoch Crescent.
I’m gonna show my age now and say that before Tip Top sold Popsicles, Walls sold Crazy Joes. When Popsicles came out Walls dropped the price to 4 cents and Tip Top matched the price. What a time to be alive!
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@JC said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@taniwharugby The murder house was by the playground facing towards Murdoch Crescent.
I’m gonna show my age now and say that before Tip Top sold Popsicles, Walls sold Crazy Joes. When Popsicles came out Walls dropped the price to 4 cents and Tip Top matched the price. What a time to be alive!
God I'm old
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@JC said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@voodoo True story. On my tenth birthday I bought 50 cents worth of mixed lollies on the way to school, it was a big fuckoff bag of all sorts of the bastards. Heaven. When I turned around from the counter in the dairy I bumped (literally) into Miss Everett the school dental nurse. She says "I hope you're not going to eat all those yourself". Ha ha. Sure as eggs later that day I got the call to attend the murder house where she drilled out half of one of my molars and put in a shit filling that still gives me grief to this day. So for my tenth birthday I got a pointless filling. Miss Everett, if you're reading you are a malicious old bag.
I think it was free up until 10 and paid for from then on. So the evil lunatics in charge of making these decisions decided to drill out perfectly healthy often very strong teeth (so agony for kids) at the last free appointment and replace then with fillings (that often f++ked the teeth as amalgam expand and contracts and a filling partly destroys healthy teeth). On the ground that fillings were better than the actual tooth. And as its free etc
I guess the decision was made to ensure lots of future work for dentists.
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got an email from the lad yesterday saying school was boring as had a reliever teach for the day. Had a pretty quiet day work wise too so a quick email to the school office and next thing ya know the boy and I are out mountain biking at woodhill for the arvo. Always good to get that 1 on 1 quality time
