Aint Trying To Raise No Quitters... - Saturday!
Yo, good morning! It was one of those weird, funny days. We woke up, got ready, and the kids were like, “I don’t want to go snowboarding. I don’t like it anymore.”
I was like, “Son, listen, man, I ain’t trying to raise no quitters.” I was trying to convince him, like, “You gotta try.” He had a bunch of excuses, and I didn’t want him to just take an excuse and be like, “Alright, we’re done.” It’s easy for me to just say we’re done and save myself an hour or three of going there and coming back. But I don’t want to develop a habit of him just being like, “Well, I’m done, I gave it a try.”
Our rule at home is generally, “When you start something, you finish it. And once it’s done, you don’t have to do it again.” So he ain’t got to do snowboarding level two if he’s done at level one and decides it wasn’t for him. But at the same time, there are so many things I want my kids to try and do, but I don’t want to be that douchy parent that’s trying to live vicariously through their kids or force my own interests and hobbies on them. I really want them to discover things they like to do and then foster those. If he wants to do something, alright, let’s keep doing it, let’s try to build on it, let’s make time for him to discover things he wants to do.
But at the same time, you gotta try stuff! When you’re trying to teach your kids about foods and experimenting with foods, it’s the same thing. “Try this, try this.” If you don’t like it, I ain’t going to keep feeding it to you, but some stuff you got to actually try. It was funny, because at the end of the snowboarding session he was like, “Yeah, that was a great day!” His whole thing was he just didn’t like going up the magic carpet with his board strapped in. So I talked to his coach, and his coach is pretty cool. He said it was fine if he carried his board up there. It’s the small things, man.
At the same time, I want him to learn certain things so that me and him can kind of bond over them, because these are things I like doing. I feel like if he’s into them, it makes it easy later on for us to do the same things. Being a parent’s fun, man. It’s annoying too. Y’all seen that meme though, where that guy was like, “My parents didn’t put me in any activities growing up, and now I’m an adult with no talents, no real interests, and no real skills.” And then I’m like, so if you don’t do anything for your kids and you leave them to not do anything, they’ll grow up and be like, “My parents sucked.” You put them in everything, you make them cry doing all these things, then they regret you for it, they’re just full of regret because they had no time to be kids.
I was talking to another parent, and they were just like, “What’s all this worth, all the work we put in, all the money we make, if it isn’t to try and afford our kids opportunities we didn’t have?” I think that’s a common sentiment around a lot of parents. It’s like, everything we’re doing here is for the kids to get those chances. So I don’t know, being a parent is interesting.
My kids are calling me to come in. They’re like, “Why is he doing this video in the cold?” I don’t know, man, I’m weird like that too. Anyways, y’all have a great day! Till the next one, peace!
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