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24 Times Dads Acted So Dramatically When Parenting, Their Kids Just Had To Share It Online
Dear dads, what would we do without you? Who else would make us cringe over your punny jokes and who'd teach us to fix a flat tire? While we all appreciate their endeavors in making our life often less, and sometimes even more miserable, there’s a trait that makes dads very particular with their parenting tactics.
“My dad used to be so dramatic when he would teach me how to do stuff,” tweeted @PrinceHAK33M telling how his pa went into full-on cinema mode as if he was acting in a Hollywood drama. “This might happen, and you better be ready. The elements don’t care about you, son,” the dad said after he woke @PrinceHAK33M to change a tire in the rain.
The tweet immediately went viral with 238.3k likes and counting, and people found the drama king dads a totally relatable phenomenon. So below, we compiled a list with hilarious posts about drama dads, so scroll down, upvote your favorites, and share your stories in the comment section!
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"Dad yelling at the traffic cones not to move" Such an amazing sentence lol
To find out about navigating parenting in these crazily uncertain times, Bored Panda reached out to Natalie Maximets, a certified life transformation coach at “Online Divorce,” which is a professional divorce document preparation service with 20 years of market history.
“A father is not just a breadwinner for the family. He acts as a coach, teacher, friend, protector, and role model when raising a child,” Natalie Maximets, a certified life transformation coach at “Online Divorce” told Bored Panda.
She explained further: “You see, a child is like a sponge. They absorb everything that they see and hear. Hence, they tend to imitate their parents. For a son, a father is an example of how to interact with others. Therefore, they can adopt not only the character but also the manner of speech.”
Meanwhile, for a girl, her father is like a hero, Natalie argues. For that reason, the father’s role is incredibly important in the upbringing of children and the development of their personalities.
Natalie suggests listening to your children, “and you will notice that they use the exact words as their father. Why is a father like a teacher or coach to us? Remember who taught you how to ride a bike or skateboard. Or with which parent you did the craziest things in childhood. After all, who agreed to have tea with your dolls in the garden?”
On the other hand, “Mothers tend to be very protective of their children, while fathers are ready to give them freedom of action and imagination and take part in this themselves,” Natalie explained.
It turns out that the father’s participation influences psychological, intellectual, and gender-role development. “The children often look to their father for a sense of physical and emotional security. That is why it is important to live up to the reputation of a "protector" who will always come to help and teach them how to defend themselves. And we’re not talking about physical fights right now. Violence is bad. We are talking about emotional protection from the negative consequences of some situations,” a certified life coach explained.
“In most cases, fathers teach us not to dwell on failures and sometimes just laugh at ourselves when we screw up. For example, when a daughter does her first make-up in her life, she has a matryoshka-style instead of gorgeous make-up. The father will give an encouraging pat to his daughter and say, ‘Don't cry; you are always beautiful!’ Children want their fathers to be proud of them. It pushes them to self-improvement, cultivate external and internal strength, and reach new heights.”
Welcome to my childhood. If you didn't start at 5 AM, the snow was too deep to drive through by 6:30 AM. It wasn't about getting it all, it was about making it passable, LOL!
Natalie argues that when fathers show support, interest, and tenderness towards their children, it significantly affects the social and cognitive development of the kids. “For example, daughters, looking at their fathers, choose their future partners. If the father is a strong, loving man who respects his beloved, the daughter will look for the same personality traits in men when she grows up. On the contrary, looking at their fathers, sons adopt a behavior model to treat women.”
Such a stupid way of looking at things. It's not like you can "train" or "strengthen" your ear-drums. You'll shoot your gun in self defence once in your life time and your ears will be fine, shoot 100 rounds a week for training without ear protection and you'll go deaf. Idiot.
In the last week of my armed service a soldier and one of my seargent friends and myself had our leave (a free evening) taken away, because we showed up ten minutes late for the lights out on Sunday evening. As the others went on leave that week, we had to write a 3 page essay with a civil and military example on why punctuality us important. At least we were not caught smoking weed, which was the reason for turning up late on Sunday.
Telling someone where you are going is pretty good life advice no matter your gender or age
Agree agree with the other posts. While the MF in this case might be technically entirely accurate description its still derogatory to both parents. And in comparison to some of the other posts, getting your lazy butt out of bed at a fairly reasonable hour to do some jobs that would improve the appearance of your home and by extension your neighbourhood as well as some basic maintenance of the home you live in and enjoy that ensures it stays a clean dry safe environment is hardly an evil over the top punishment. Sounds like someone thinks he should be praised for simply existing and not be expected to contribute to the household in any helpful way whatsoever
Ok, but, calling your father mf ain't it. He's atleast tryna teach you smth. Please, it makes you sound ungrateful, and that is disrespectful. You don't know how much he goes through to raise you, do you? Be happy that he's teaching you smth. Cuz with that attitude, you might as well end up cleaning gutters for a living. (Sorry if I'm being very rude, but, I can't handle this, so, I apologise)
Do you particularly not like the word something?
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My dad had a side gig delivering papers - like you were the kid with the paper route? He dropped that bundle at your front door. I'd go help him all the time, especially on weekends. One time in high school, my friend and I came back to my house, s**t-faced. Dad knew it. Never said a word. Just got us both up at 0400 to help deliver the papers. I don't drink if I have to work any more.
Sure it was ok to ask him to do it but its normal for a kid to be mad about it, especially if given no advance notice (not giving notice was kind of mean, actually). he probably knows better than to call his dad an mf in person. chill out, people.
Better than being punched awake because the cat wouldn't come inside late on a summer night, and you gave up calling their name and left them outside. Still prefer an alarm clock to a fist.
My dad interviewed my teenaged friends that had cars. If I was to go anywhere with them he had to have a photocopy of their drivers license and insurance and he also inspected the car. My buddies thought it was hilarious while I just cringed. They all thought my dad was cool thou cause he had a armored personnel carrier and a anti aircraft cannon in our drive way.
If I referred to my father and a mf my life would end in a brutal en dramatic way. Also why is this bad? If my dad of 50+ could do those things then so should a young teen and it teaches you skills. This was semi normal in my house
Perhaps instead of showing how to clean the gutters, his time would have been better spent teaching the illiterate idiot how to write...!
Yeah just straight up don't say that anymore. Black fathers aren't worse than white fathers. You know how many white guys don't marry the mom and leave them to raise kids on their own? A sh*t ton.
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My dad has thirteen children and I am the youngest and only girl. I had to help him side the house. I had to hang aluminum siding on a two story house. In the SUMMER. *I* had to do it because "they are boys and they are stupid, but they will figure out manual labor eventually, but you are a girl and you shouldn't have to rely on stupid boys for anything so you are going to learn things." I have never had to hang siding on a house again, but I am so grateful that I am able to use the lessons he taught me to maintain a home and a car and save myself THOUSANDS of dollars.
Congrats. My wife doesn't really know how to do maintenance and stuff. I will definitely be having my daughter around when I am doing things so she can learn.
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Some of those posts are indeed dads being jerks and @ssholes, others are just parenting in a more or less awkward way. Be happy if your dad really loved you enough to teach you, because there are millions of people who weren't that lucky.
Well my dad doesn't even know my age or what school I graduated from. I guess his dad was like him too. But I don't feel like I have a dad at all. I have never felt...
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I still had sleepovers up through high school because my friends loved my dad so much. When I would have my girls over, the next morning there would be a huge buffet style breakfast waiting for us. Like 6 different types of drinks on ice for our choosing, 10-20 different foods layed out on the buffet table that he would set up, and each of us would get a personalized place card with our name and an affirmation written on it. He was the best! Oh, and he would also make pancakes in any shape we requested
My dad taught me a lesson he didn't realize. Thirteen years old, school is out for summer. He drags my sorry ass out of bed and puts me up on the roof of a house he is doing (roofing contractor). That was the day I decided "I might go to college" to "F**k yeah I'm going to college". Funny thing is, when I started, he thought I was as some sort of JC...uh, no, its a full blown university that's hard to get into.
My dad was discussing gun safety with me and my sister so we could go to a shooting range and shoot them, and the entire thing was extremely dramatic. He told us stories about things like a boyfriend accidentally shot his girlfriend through the throat because he was fooling around with a gun, and even worse stories. Then he would completely panic of we accidentally put our fingers on the trigger for a split second even though the gun was on safety. When we actually went to the range I was convinced I was going to kill my whole family by accident, but it was not nearly as terrifying as he told us it was and actually turned out to be a fun trip.
Basic gun safety: Assume it is loaded, safety off, and a lethal weapon. Work from there. (But if you have a prop gun, and are told it's safe, you believe it, b/c you're not a gun user, and you trust your co-worker.)
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Spent part of my childhood on a working cattle ranch in southeast Colorado. Up before dawn, work hard all day. I was 5. First rule -animals come first, second rule - Never, ever under any circumstances leave a gate open. An animal gets out on the road, it will kill someone and be a loss of revenue. My brother left a gate open. Next morning an hour before everyone else got up, he was woken up. The window in his bedroom was opened and a shotgun was fired out the window about 3’ from his bed. No gate was ever left open ever again.
When I was 7, my dad told me "when I was you age, I was 8! Slacker!"
When i was learning to drive a manual car, my dad demonstrated moving from a stand still by spinning the wheels of the car. It was actually a great lesson. No matter how many revs you had, you can control your take off speed with how quickly you take the clutch out. I never forgot it and it was a great lesson when driving other manual cars with different clutch lengths.
Too many of these are people whining about having to contribute to the household.
OK. When you weight 95 pounds, were you asked to haul 160 pound items 1/4 mile across a farm by hand, on your back, just b/c your dad wanted you to "learn how pOWs felt"? That wasnt me contributing. That was my dad being batsh*t. CHORES are contributing. Suffering, not so much.
Load More Replies... My dad has thirteen children and I am the youngest and only girl. I had to help him side the house. I had to hang aluminum siding on a two story house. In the SUMMER. *I* had to do it because "they are boys and they are stupid, but they will figure out manual labor eventually, but you are a girl and you shouldn't have to rely on stupid boys for anything so you are going to learn things." I have never had to hang siding on a house again, but I am so grateful that I am able to use the lessons he taught me to maintain a home and a car and save myself THOUSANDS of dollars.
Congrats. My wife doesn't really know how to do maintenance and stuff. I will definitely be having my daughter around when I am doing things so she can learn.
Load More Replies... Some of those posts are indeed dads being jerks and @ssholes, others are just parenting in a more or less awkward way. Be happy if your dad really loved you enough to teach you, because there are millions of people who weren't that lucky.
Well my dad doesn't even know my age or what school I graduated from. I guess his dad was like him too. But I don't feel like I have a dad at all. I have never felt...
Load More Replies... I still had sleepovers up through high school because my friends loved my dad so much. When I would have my girls over, the next morning there would be a huge buffet style breakfast waiting for us. Like 6 different types of drinks on ice for our choosing, 10-20 different foods layed out on the buffet table that he would set up, and each of us would get a personalized place card with our name and an affirmation written on it. He was the best! Oh, and he would also make pancakes in any shape we requested
My dad taught me a lesson he didn't realize. Thirteen years old, school is out for summer. He drags my sorry ass out of bed and puts me up on the roof of a house he is doing (roofing contractor). That was the day I decided "I might go to college" to "F**k yeah I'm going to college". Funny thing is, when I started, he thought I was as some sort of JC...uh, no, its a full blown university that's hard to get into.
My dad was discussing gun safety with me and my sister so we could go to a shooting range and shoot them, and the entire thing was extremely dramatic. He told us stories about things like a boyfriend accidentally shot his girlfriend through the throat because he was fooling around with a gun, and even worse stories. Then he would completely panic of we accidentally put our fingers on the trigger for a split second even though the gun was on safety. When we actually went to the range I was convinced I was going to kill my whole family by accident, but it was not nearly as terrifying as he told us it was and actually turned out to be a fun trip.
Basic gun safety: Assume it is loaded, safety off, and a lethal weapon. Work from there. (But if you have a prop gun, and are told it's safe, you believe it, b/c you're not a gun user, and you trust your co-worker.)
Load More Replies... Spent part of my childhood on a working cattle ranch in southeast Colorado. Up before dawn, work hard all day. I was 5. First rule -animals come first, second rule - Never, ever under any circumstances leave a gate open. An animal gets out on the road, it will kill someone and be a loss of revenue. My brother left a gate open. Next morning an hour before everyone else got up, he was woken up. The window in his bedroom was opened and a shotgun was fired out the window about 3’ from his bed. No gate was ever left open ever again.
When I was 7, my dad told me "when I was you age, I was 8! Slacker!"
When i was learning to drive a manual car, my dad demonstrated moving from a stand still by spinning the wheels of the car. It was actually a great lesson. No matter how many revs you had, you can control your take off speed with how quickly you take the clutch out. I never forgot it and it was a great lesson when driving other manual cars with different clutch lengths.
Too many of these are people whining about having to contribute to the household.
OK. When you weight 95 pounds, were you asked to haul 160 pound items 1/4 mile across a farm by hand, on your back, just b/c your dad wanted you to "learn how pOWs felt"? That wasnt me contributing. That was my dad being batsh*t. CHORES are contributing. Suffering, not so much.
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