Proud dads...
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- stoplying7
With absolutely no suggestion from me, my two boys (12 & 11) have discovered and fallen in love with The Simpsons. They discovered it by watching YouTube shorts and now we quote lines and scenes together, play games naming as many characters as we can, and they laugh their asses off at all the right things. They get it, and it makes me so damn proud.
- bezoar10
Today my son brought me a popsicle as I worked in the yard.
- slappy11
My son is 14 and pretty independent now, would rather ride bikes with his mates than with his old man (which I get) so we needed a new hobby to bond over.
I bought a second hand racing go kart and we are back! It’s so fun to be hanging out in the garage again. We are fixing it up but it’s a little too fast at the moment, might have to put in a restrictor to keep it under 100km/hr / 60mph. It’s off its head, I had no idea.
Hopefully we get another 3 or 4 summers in before he starts adulting.
- 60mph!! Christ... My lad is 17 and a half now. It doesn't take long until they're a mini adult... I'd do anything for one day with him when he was 2/3 years oldcruddlebub
- Me too. Thankfully I remember all the fun and joy and not much of the second job that is being a PA to a toddler.slappy
- In 3 or 4 summers move on to 50s Chevy Gasser buildsprophetone
- I could get into something like that. Vintage US cars are a bit thin on the ground in Aus, maybe an old Valiant though with a big turbo V8 might be fun.slappy
- Can I be your son?Nairn
- Fantastic; cool dad alert!!!ideaist
- We're JUST into RC car(s) and it's lovely. 7 & 11.ideaist
- RC cars are the gateway drug to becoming the team mechanic. Enjoy!slappy
- Awesome!********
- Og AE RC10, Kyosho Optima, Scorpion ftwprophetone
- I have a few old rc’s in my storage here, Tamiya Wild One, an AE RC12L, and a couple RC10L’s... there’s a re-issue of the Kyosho Fantom which is dopeprophetone
- RC’s are def gateway drug, so easy to drop $’s lolprophetone
- Sick https://www.reddit.c…prophetone
- RC of the day. I remember the foam wheels! The vintage RC stuff is expensive now.slappy
- slappy18
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Some pictures from this Saturday's practice day.
- Fuck yeah!********
- sick!_niko
- you'll shoot your eye out kidutopian
- yuuuussssssssssprophetone
- https://youtu.be/kk1…prophetone
- Yes!!OBBTKN
- Nice!PonyBoy
- Awesome. An expensive hobby but can get you into Formula racing. A friend of my brother got to F3 through carting as a kid.microkorg
- We stated a bit late for a racing career but you never know. There are 30 year olds still racing with their dads so that’s promising. I had a drive, so fun.slappy
- This is cool as shit! KACHOW!!!!stoplying
- CAN.
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BE.
YOUR.
SON.Nairn - Lol Nairn.slappy
- Cool. Loved it as a kid. (Still would now)Longcopylover
- https://vt.tiktok.co…prophetone
- Thats what it feels like, we are not ready for shifter carts, yet.slappy
- Fuck yeah!
- slappy14
Karting update, things escalated, we now have a kart each so we can race each other.
Made a small edit of the lads POV below.
?share=copy- So dope!********
- +1utopian
- Fantastic, go on! <3OBBTKN
- awesome dad u are! does he has issues grabbing the wheel properly? it seems like gloves are giving him some hard time, maybe i'm wrong just noted it in the vid********
- They are on the small side but he had just put them on I think. I also think we need to move the wheel forward as he is gripping the wheel to high to get comfyslappy
- So dope!
- HijoDMaite53
My baby girl got married this weekend!
- Woahhhh!! Congrats Hijo! You both look ace... I think something got into my eyes ;) Celebrate it as it deserves ❤︎OBBTKN
- Tell your daughter that she was beautiful, and may the adventure continue, long and full of joy...OBBTKN
- Thanks OBB! Was a rollercoaster of emotions!HijoDMaite
- +❤︎hans_glib
- congrats papa!renderedred
- bravo!neverscared
- Huge Congrats! that is so awesome Hijo!
Beautiful photos!exador1 - Whoooop! Congrats! Looking smooth in the suit.PhanLo
- YEAH BOIII!!!
Grandpa soon???!!!
XOideaist - Congrats Hijo!utopian
- Thank you guys!HijoDMaite
- No way!! Wow!!********
- Congratulations!!
The little girl has blossomed into a bride, yet she’s still the little girl you know.zaq - Lookin' SHARP! Congratsstoplying
- Wow congrats!! By the way that guy sold me coke last weekend.
I am not seriousProjectile - felicitacionessssmaquito
- congrats!!Akagiyama
- Beautiful fotos, people and moment! All the best! Que tengan una vida llena de amor y felicidad!uan
- What a milestone. Congrats!BonSeff
- Awesome! Congrats!Krassy
- just amazing._niko
- https://www.youtube.…SlashPeckham
- Joder, qué gusto!!!Miesfan
- Congrats! What a big moment!instrmntl
- :..)Nairn
- slappy25
Final update for the karting story. We had our first competitive race meeting on the weekend, with kids coming from some of the larger tracks around to compete in our class (KA100 light).
I gave him the pep talk, take it easy, we are just learning, no pressure etc and sent him out.
Heat 1 — He started in 3rd and finished 2nd (random grid).
Heat 2 — Started 7th finished 2nd (random grid)
Heat 3 — It started to rain and he started 12th (random grid). Most kids scrambled back to the pits to put on wet tyres but we chose to stay on slicks and see what happens. He drove from last place to 2nd place through the field in 8 laps.
Final — Started 3rd (based on points from the heats) and put in the fastest laps and was leading the race by lap 4 and took home the win. I very nearly cried as all the locals rallied around him.
- Love this. Well doneBonSeff
- Sweet!********
- Awesome!canoe
- Nice!instrmntl
- ❤︎PhanLo
- Great!OBBTKN
- Formula 1 season 26/27 starts in Melbourne, this is a sign. :)Longcopylover
- Yeah boiii!!!ideaist
- Very cool!stoplying
- Thanks for the kind words. Hopefully he will race a full season at one of the larger clubs next year. If he wins the championship, I'll post an update.slappy
- So coolcruddlebub
- BonSeff36
My youngest had a project to invent a new animal. She chose a cross between a chameleon and an owl. I was tickled watching her build it.
- Lovely!palimpsest
- Love thisduckseason
- Cherish these moments! I love these school projects. I built a Komodo dragon and a platypus with my boys a few short years ago. Now they are on screens 24/7!fooler
- Love it!canoe
- aahah super awesome :))
"you get the idea" lol******** - Love the way little kids spell!stoplying
- Here is her write up about the beast
https://i.imgur.com/…
Thanks for the kind words!BonSeff - So cool. I miss this stuff. They grow up fast, blink and you'll miss it.jbasnight
- 'you get the idea' hakingsteven
- nice :) I would love a friend like Chameowl :)********
- I am cherishing these days, tho. I have an older daughter and know I only have a couple more yrs before my youngest thinks I am a total idiot.BonSeff
- doesnt get any betterneverscared
- Better than most of the art at Baselbainbridge
- The final chameleowl looks great!utopian
- Stayed close to her brief which is also impressive. There might be a 3d on the Christmas list soon!slappy
- * 3d printerslappy
- So good! Love making stuff like this with my daughter too!sab
- such a fun project!milfhunter
- wow, she nailed it!hotroddy
- zaq20
Some time ago, I shared about my son’s passion for music and his first release with a label: https://www.qbn.com/reply/411018…
Since then, he has become even more dedicated to music.Yesterday, he made me proud again.
He received a letter that he was accepted to NYU for Music Production with a scholarship!I’ve seen how hard he worked to get there. The Clive Davis Institute is highly competitive, with only about 7–8% of applicants accepted.
It’s still a big decision. Even with a partial scholarship, the cost is significant, and AI is changing creative fields, including music.
But I believe that his passion will help him to figure out his path and adapt as things evolve.
Here is his Creative sample that he submitted to NYU
- Awesome!!cruddlebub
- This is an impressive portfolio, showing both creative and social talent. Connecting with the rich and ambitious at NYU could be fruitful. Good luck!pusherbot
- Thank youzaq
- As long as they're passionate about something... all you hope for as a parent. Fully support that passion.falcadia
- AQUTE0
Seymour George Epstein
- *principle skinner's mom's voice "Seeeymoooore"cannonball1978
- HijoDMaite33
What’s up party people! Quick update on a huge blessing. I’m so proud of my youngest daughter. She graduated from UC Irvine last May with a degree in Bioscience and set her sights on Veterinary Medicine. After thousands of hours working with animals, she applied to nine programs.
She was accepted to some, denied by a few, but the big news... she got into the top two vet schools in the country: UC Davis and Cornell! She’s over the moon. As amazing as Cornell is, Davis is ranked #1 and keeps us in-state for tuition, so she’ll be starting there in August.
So proud!!
If your kids are interested in pursuing this path, let me know. I’m happy to help you navigate the process. :))
- Nice!
Good to see them follow their dreamsPhanLo - Rad! And AI won’t take that job :)monospaced
- congrats!renderedred
- Nice!!PonyBoy
- Yeah!********
- Awesome!stoplying
- Props! Vets tend to be the better folk among us. It takes a certain spirit to do that work.garbage
- Nice... I need to discuss career paths soon with my teenage daughter soon.falcadia
- +1canoe
- A career based on kindness to animals. How fantastic.CyBrainX
- Thanks guys. She is interested in small animals. So cats and dogs basically.HijoDMaite
- Nice!
- _niko33
My son got accepted to UCD Dublin for University a few months ago and over the past two weeks we were in Ireland where he trialed for UCD's u-20 soccer team and he ended up making it.
So happy and insanely proud.
And I get to go back to Dublin with him in July :)- nice niko! good boy!!AQUTE
- όπαpalimpsest
- Congrats! My eldest son is in his first year in UCD.mort_
- My wife went there too!mort_
- YEAH BOIII(S)!!!ideaist
- Cheers thanks guys! Mort we need to do Dublin qbn drinks ;)_niko
- Yeah man!mort_
- Aye aye , we know you're just going back for the spice bag..
Congrats! xNairn - BEST NEWS ALL WEEK! Man, you've got to have that happy tickle in your stomach! Great work Dad!canoe
- w00t!AQUTE
- Sweet! What’s he studying ?Gnash
- Hell yeah! Very proud dad moment.falcadia
- Thanks all! Gnash, sports management and kinesiology, but really he just want to play soccer, he’d study sock-folding if he could :)_niko
- slappy5
I was just at a tram stop on the way home tonight. Next to me was a dad and his two young primary school kids. The girl said “hey look it’s a full moon” and pointed at the sky. She started howling like a wolf, and her brother immediately joined in. Then the dad looked at me and he started howling too.
He’s a good dad, when he got on the tram I noticed he was wearing his girls pink back pack. Nice job dad.
- Nairn4
Shower-bathing the daughter and I need a pee so I decide to go all Swiss-German and have a quiet sit down pee as she does her thing, except now I think I could also have a shit so do so and dear God, it reeks and now she's wincing and I'm trying not to laugh.
This one's for you, PhanLo.
- lol... gross, dudePonyBoy
- bruhmonospaced
- Poor girl :)OBBTKN
- slappy5
My son has started a youtube channel for his karting, he's been working, saving and wrenching late into the nights with me to get his setup dialled in. He's decided he's ready to go and race competitively. Really pumped for him.
- Ace!OBBTKN
- watched for a while, all I could hear in my mind was push push push :DArchitectofFate
- Nairn3
I've been worrying about compensating for my own domain lacking where my daughter's education is concerned, so had thought that a grounding in maths and logic and programming would be best.
But in this age of LLMs I realise that's redundant.
I need to focus on language, comprehension, composition of thought and the ability to abstract concepts.
I'm so fucking worried for her future.
- Teach her how to learn and foster a culture of curiosity then she will work the rest out. Maybe keep an eye on her self esteem and friend groups is my advice.slappy
- Oh yeah, I'm talking purely edumacational here, but I'm already seeing the self esteem issues beginning to peek through...Nairn
- ..but I've always been sure to enxourage that she engaged with friends as much as is comfortable, and not just focusing the same subset all the timeNairn
- Fucking mobile corrections.Nairn
- Have her learn piano. It’s great for activating all kinds of wonderful parts of the brain at once.monospaced
- I agree that in the world of corner cutters abusing ai to get through life, the ability to write well and expound on abstract concepts is critical.monospaced
- I bought her a wee piano years ago but she's not shown much interest. She's been learning violin, and I'm going to buy her a recorder this w'endNairn
- I’m so worried for their future. It’s hard to conceive of what challenges they’ll face or how I can even possibly guide them.monospaced
- What is it that she loves to do more than anything? That is the thing you raise her to do. This is a slow apocalypse — with more & more beautiful sunsets.tbgoodwillie
- monospaced4
Happy Father’s Day.
