• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
    1051·
    2 days ago

    I take my eldest son out running with me. He plays sport at a national level (not yet near the international stage) so it’s nice to go out to bang in five kilometres every now and then - it’s a great bit of cardio for him, and it drags me out to keep me healthy.

    Honestly, 25 of those minutes are robloxrobloxrobloxrobloxrobloxfortniterobloxrobloxroblox and it can get draining… but it’s important to him so it’s important to me.

    Honestly, it’s just time spent alone with him that makes the difference for me. He’s got some big changes coming up in life and I want to be there for him, so if he ever drops that little breadcrumb into conversation that he’s got problems with his boyfriend or girlfriend, or if he’s getting a hard time off someone, or if the studying and sport is getting him down - then I’ll have hopefully made a space safe enough to chat freely and openly, and his mental health doesn’t take a battering before it’s too late.

    One can dream.

    • artifex@piefed.zipEnglish
      40·
      2 days ago

      Having just dropped a kid off at college, I will tell you: the platitudes you’ve heard from others the whole time you’ve been a parent are all correct. It DOES go fast. They ARE the best times. You WILL look back on them fondly.

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 day ago

        it certainly doesn’t feel like that when you’re the only one establishing boundries and they are toilet training and not letting you know when they need to go or they soiled themselves.

        any advice is welcome, 3 yo, opposite gender child

        • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 days ago

          It accelerates. Mine just started middle school and I’m glad I’m like the other guy up there. She can and will tell me anything and I’m grateful because in about 34 minutes she will be all grown up and moved out.