How do I find a parent with the same age as my daughter with a similar parenting style as my own.
Other than my wife I guess.
Like I meet parents, but I guess part of it is, part of it is me rapidly being able to clock people and you know just a lot of people are doing average kind at raising kids. But I haven’t been able to find a good dad friend. I have friends who are dads who have older and younger kids, but I just really want a parent that I can really just jive with.
You just gotta keep taking your kid to activities and assessing the other parents. Sooner or later you'll find someone relatively normal. It's exhausting.
Yeah that’s what I figured. It just hasn’t really happened yet. A lot of Viv’s parent friends are lovely, but their partners have issues.
One time I was at the park with my daughter and she ran into one of her friends from dance class and her dad was there and half the time it felt like his questions were a variation of the question do you actually like being a dad and I was answering wrong by saying yes.
Wonder if it's being a dad or being a dad to a girl he resents.
It does feel like people are surprised a guy doesn't want to make his child a mini-me son who does what they did.
I haven't gotten that a lot, yet, but my daughter is still under a year and not really interacting with other kids yet.
We got incredibly lucky in that our next door neighbours are great and they have a child a similar age to ours. The only downside is I had to join a social soccer team, because the dad is Brazilian and he loves soccer
As far as things that come after "the only downside is" that's probably the best you can hope for.
There’s that family and Big Fella’s family, some of you may recall the really Christian guy who stopped his two girls watching Bluey because they started calling him Big Fella. Well APART from some weird social conservatism, he and his family are good for the occasional picnic in the park or bush walk. Definitely an arms-length sort of acquaintance, but you could do a lot worse, I suppose.
@Blake T a guy at work met his best mate (both of them dads) through meetup.com. They have groups for dads for exactly this purpose. You may strike it lucky there. Otherwise I hear bumble BFF can be a winner
How do I find a parent with the same age as my daughter with a similar parenting style as my own.
Other than my wife I guess.
Like I meet parents, but I guess part of it is, part of it is me rapidly being able to clock people and you know just a lot of people are doing average kind at raising kids. But I haven’t been able to find a good dad friend. I have friends who are dads who have older and younger kids, but I just really want a parent that I can really just jive with.
You just gotta keep taking your kid to activities and assessing the other parents. Sooner or later you'll find someone relatively normal. It's exhausting.
Yeah that’s what I figured. It just hasn’t really happened yet. A lot of Viv’s parent friends are lovely, but their partners have issues.
One time I was at the park with my daughter and she ran into one of her friends from dance class and her dad was there and half the time it felt like his questions were a variation of the question do you actually like being a dad and I was answering wrong by saying yes.
Wonder if it's being a dad or being a dad to a girl he resents.
It does feel like people are surprised a guy doesn't want to make his child a mini-me son who does what they did.
I haven't gotten that a lot, yet, but my daughter is still under a year and not really interacting with other kids yet.
Oh he has pretty serious depression, got injured at work and hasn’t been able to get to work since then and in the mean time him and his partner split up.
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Wonder if it's being a dad or being a dad to a girl he resents.
It does feel like people are surprised a guy doesn't want to make his child a mini-me son who does what they did.
I haven't gotten that a lot, yet, but my daughter is still under a year and not really interacting with other kids yet.
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As far as things that come after "the only downside is" that's probably the best you can hope for.
@Blake T a guy at work met his best mate (both of them dads) through meetup.com. They have groups for dads for exactly this purpose. You may strike it lucky there. Otherwise I hear bumble BFF can be a winner
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Oh he has pretty serious depression, got injured at work and hasn’t been able to get to work since then and in the mean time him and his partner split up.
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