Take them some place horrible. We will appreciate the story and the day can only get better. You were military you get it.
parents that let their kids have their way at the expense of everyone else’s fun and happiness are the worst
My daughter is completely like this, and my wife gives in more (so she is usually the one who usually will take a separate car if things get real bad), but I'm just as oppositely stubborn now and try to get her out of her comfort zone.
A friend of mines kid is a hellion and I can only attribute it to that fact that every story they tell starts with “hey buddy (the child) do you want to do this…”. I don’t have children but I don’t think the child should dictate everything you do.
part of being a parent is that they kinda do dictate things but that’s where it should end. your kid shouldn’t dictate what the rest of the group you’re with. it’s fine if you have to be miserable because your kid is super picky or difficult but letting their stubbornness make everyone else in the party be miserable too isn’t ok
My sister had kids 8 years before I did. Every family function for about that long revolved around their schedule. It definitely created a rift in the family that still simmers on the background because she accepted it with open arms. My kids are 8 and 6 and my stance since day 1 has been “my kids aren’t your problem”.
SIL got sloppy wine drunk, suggested karaoke, yelled at three of the other people for not wanting to participate, yelled at me for not picking a song she wanted to do, had a hissy about no one wanting to do it anymore, spilled her wine, yelled at her mom for helping clean up, and has now stomped off to bed.
It’s vacation. What’s wrong with having drinks and wanting to get everyone involved with a little karaoke
I was down for karaoke, just not karaoke where she gets to pick all the songs, most of which are obscure covers, where she sings all of them deliberately off key, interspersed with getting shouted at for not singing a song I don't know/don't know this version of over caterwauling.
O-town - All or Nothing is the only song I karaoke and I’d be lying if I said I don’t m do a better job than the original band ever did
Wife reminded me that we’re making the annual multi night pilgrimage to my in laws, 4.2 miles away. So pumped.
I will actually be hosting family for thanksgiving. can't imagine anything weird or funny will happen, but always love reading this thread so I can feel better about myself. tia
Spending all of next week out of town with my inlaws. Not sure if my (step) FIL will be on a health kick or boozin 24/7. Either way he makes for good content.
Oh hey it's this thread again. Expecting some sister Nug stories, among other wacky shenanigans! Will preemptively start another airing of grievances thread. Name P. Redacted you're first on the list, buddy
I’m hosting Christmas and my mom is going to sleep at my place. She at least lives 30 mins away. Going to be wild And by wild I mean very uneventful outside of maybe one of my brother in laws being a douchebag
Was it you that wanted to spend a bit of money and take your dad to a bunch of baseball parks and your sister lost her shit because she's a failure and couldn't bother doing anything nice like that?
I gifted him an Alaskan salmon fishing trip years ago and she pitched an absolute fit. She was 29 at the time
Gonna be a very lazy Thanksgiving, just staying home and the MIL is coming over for the day. So I will spend all day watching football, drinking and listening to hear just ramble straight non sense for 8-10 hours.
was at my in-laws last weekend for my kid’s birthday and early thanksgiving. both of my in-laws very rarely eat meat. MIL suggested steaks out of the blue and asked if knew how to cook them. almost immediately after she changed her mind and refused to tell me what it was she had planned ends up this 70 year old lady decided she wanted to make skyline chili on a whim. it was delicious and she froze a bunch for me to bring home. fantastic weekend
We used to go over there before we had kids and we'd stay the night because we'd all get hammered. I couldn't ask for better in laws, and was fine because it was just the 3 kids, their spouses and my in laws. After everyone had kids, it somehow turned into a multi night affair so the cousins (who see each other multiple times a month) can hang out. However, it's now 8 adults and 9 kids (ages 1 to 9) in one house. It's like the opening scene from Home Alone the entire time we're there. We live 4 miles away, my brother in law is 15 miles, and my sister in law lives in their same neighborhood less than 1 mile away and still does this dog and pony show. 2 years ago I managed to stay home on Wednesday night while they went over there and grilled a nice steak and watched a movie solo. Was glorious and will be my plan again next week. If not, I'll purposely leave behind an item or two to get a break. We of course will be doing this exact same thing in a month for Christmas. We flip holidays, so we're doing actual Christmas at my parents house in St. Augustine, but we have to also celebrate before Christmas at my in laws because Yes, but a huge house has never felt so small with 17 people in it.
maybe an unpopular opinion, but this seems awesome to me and probably creates memories your kids will remember for the rest of their lives. I grew up in very tight living quarters so that kind of stuff doesn't bother me, but I'd probably just suck it up and get hammered with your BILs.
We head to my in-laws for Thanks-Christmas next Wednesday night through Saturday afternoon and my MIL, in her infinite wisdom, has literally planned a daily agenda from waking to sleeping for five grandkids four and under and made it clear that the Christmas gift she wants most is no dissent from her 3 adult children and their spouses while SHE gets to enjoy the holidays with HER family. It's literally how she wrote the texts she sent, singular possessive, the rest of us be damned. Gonna be a great time!
Some of my favorite memories as a kid were holidays where we’d have all 15-20 cousins running around outside while our parents/aunts/uncles all partied their ass off. We’d stay with my mom’s sister for a week and there would be at least 15-20 people in the house at anytime all doing whatever. Helps that they were very well off but I make a point of hosting as many people as possible every Thanksgiving just to try and get that feeling back and give it to my kids as well. Can’t wait for 25 years down the line with grandkids and shit running around while I get hammered with little to know responsibilities except picking up the check.