Your coolest memory with your parents

[ClevelandOwns]

Well guys, I'm starting to realize that I wont be living with my parents much longer (Im a teenager) and its kinda hitting me hard, having to start thinking about living alone, so I thought it would be cool for us all to share one really cool memory we've had with our parents. It doesnt have to be spectacular, just something that meant alot to you

Well when I was little, about 5 or 6, my dad and I weren't very close. He always came home from work a bit bitter and angry, and I honestly dont think he really had a real connection with either me or my sister, so he didnt spend alot of time with me. Well I remember one night, he was upstairs playing his guitar, and for a good 15 minutes I just sat at the bottom of the staircase, and just listened to him play. And after a while, I went up and my dad kept playing a while, and after a few more minutes, he got out a smaller acoustic guitar, and sat me on his lap. He told me how to hold it, and told me to strum. So I did, and it sounded really good. I was amazed at myself. I looked over at my hand an my dad was changing notes for me. I immediatley began to laugh and said "youre playing!" and my dad joined me in laughter. I always remember that day, and I never realized until recently how truly special that moment was for me. So I thought that I'd share it.

So feel free to post an awesome memory with your mom or dad, and please guys, stay civil.

 

[cavincali]

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Im moving out on saturday. Im an only child and have never moved oh and my dog of 11 years died last week. Enjoy the time you have with them.

 

[Chardon]

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This thread needs this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkAvVqjbUG8

My greatest memory with my dad would be going out to races and listening to all the loud cars. Or me, my grandpa, and my dad putting in the garden every spring. And he would coach my baseball teams.

My greatest memory with my mom would be all the travels i did with her.

 

[Man Called X]

Re: Youre coolest memory with your parents

Well guys, I'm starting to realize that I wont be living with my parents much longer (Im a teenager) and its kinda hitting me hard, having to start thinking about living alone, so I thought it would be cool for us all to share one really cool memory we've had with our parents. It doesnt have to be spectacular, just something that meant alot to you

Well when I was little, about 5 or 6, my dad and I weren't very close. He always came home from work a bit bitter and angry, and I honestly dont think he really had a real connection with either me or my sister, so he didnt spend alot of time with me. Well I remember one night, he was upstairs playing his guitar, and for a good 15 minutes I just sat at the bottom of the staircase, and just listened to him play. And after a while, I went up and my dad kept playing a while, and after a few more minutes, he got out a smaller acoustic guitar, and sat me on his lap. He told me how to hold it, and told me to strum. So I did, and it sounded really good. I was amazed at myself. I looked over at my hand an my dad was changing notes for me. I immediatley began to laugh and said "youre playing!" and my dad joined me in laughter. I always remember that day, and I never realized until recently how truly special that moment was for me. So I thought that I'd share it.

So feel free to post an awesome memory with your mom or dad, and please guys, stay civil.

My best advice to you is the same advice I was given by my dad when I was 16. You might as well start cooking dinner at least 2-3 times a week, because you're gonna have to learn to cook for yourself. My dad is a pretty amazing cook, so it was a tough standard living up to his excellence.

My favorite memory with my dad came when I was about 13. I never really got along with my dad growing up. I was too stubborn to ever really listen to him, but I wasn't out of control or unloved by him. Nicest guy you'd ever meet. It was almost a year after my mom passed away, and it was time for some mushroom hunting. It was pretty much the only thing that we always got along with each other while doing. We went out to an area we had been going to for years to pick what we expected to be a small bag. When we arrived, we found probably 70-80 yellow morel mushrooms, roughly 8-13" in height. It was by far the biggest cluster we have ever found, and the largest mushrooms either of us had seen.

Saddest thing was that ever since then, we've never found another mushroom there.

 

[Randolphkeys]

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Yall are gonna make gangstas cry with this thread.

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I'd prefer to leave out my favorite moments with my family, just my own personal choice... but this song always makes me laugh.

One day, I was driving with my dad somewhere. I think we were leaving a track meet together and rushing off to my grandparent's house for a big family dinner. My dad knew he worked insane hours and really was never home. We also hadn't said a thing to each other for at least fifteen or twenty minutes, just riding in the car in silence listening to music. Harry Chapin's song came on the radio, and the atmosphere just became the definition of awkward.

"Uh, we don't need to listen to this song, do we?" He asked.

"No. This song sucks," I replied.

The channel changed, and the awkwardness in the car choked us. We continued to not talk until we arrived at my grandparent's house. Cracks me up to this very day.

 

[Aussie]

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Youre coolest memory with your parents

I remember this time when my parents would teach me grammar.

But for real's, I don't know if, right now I have a favourite memory or something cool to remember, I'm still young, and moved away.

God damn I hate cooking for myself. First nothing tastes as good as your parents food. Second, what a waste of time it is.

All I can say is kid's don't appreciate their parent's enough.

 

[camakazee]

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I have some pretty good memories with my parents, mainly after I grew out of the asshole I was in my early teenage years. Most of them revolve around my dad, either smoking cigars and going to bet the horse races or golfing. But the one that sticks out the most is the first time I got caught shit-faced coming home. I was in high school and it was well before I turned 21. I got dropped off at my house and thought I snuck in through the garage door. My dad was still up watching tv and could tell I was tipsy. So instead of getting bent out of shape or causing a stir, he went to the fridge, cracked two beers open for him and me and simply said "don't tell your mother." Very good memory for me.

 

[Marcus]

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I remember this time when my parents would teach me grammar.

But for real's, I don't know if, right now I have a favourite memory or something cool to remember, I'm still young, and moved away.

God damn I hate cooking for myself. First nothing tastes as good as your parents food. Second, what a waste of time it is.

All I can say is kid's don't appreciate their parent's enough.

Ah, irony... :chuckles:

 

[RonG]

Taking this a different direction. I have two seniors this year that turn 18 in December. I think I have grown a vagina. Every time some one talks about graduation or the boys leaving, I get a little upset. I tried to play this down the last three years saying shit like yep 2 more years and a wake up ( military expression).

I think I may cry more than my mom and their mom when they actually leave. I will do it behind doors, but I think they already see me softening up. Raising kids and being married are the two hardest things I have ever done.

 

[Marcus]

Taking this a different direction. I have two seniors this year that turn 18 in December. I think I have grown a vagina. Every time some one talks about graduation or the boys leaving, I get a little upset. I tried to play this down the last three years saying shit like yep 2 more years and a wake up ( military expression).

I think I may cry more than my mom and their mom when they actually leave. I will do it behind doors, but I think they already see me softening up. Raising kids and being married are the two hardest things I have ever done.

I would honestly be more concerned if you didn't have any feelings like that after raising those boys and being married. Those two things are life-changing events and there's no shame in feeling a profound sense of joy and sadness at seeing your children graduate and move on into the world and accomplish their goals and dreams.


My father cried the first time I left for college and my mother cried one weekend when I came back from drill in my ACU's, not only because she didn't want me to leave, but also because she was proud of me. It's human emotion.

 

[RonG]

I gotcha Marcus, but I am only 34 as well. I have been raising these boys since I was a boy. I have really been looking forward to being kidless, well at least teenboyless for years. It is suprising to me how emotional I have been this year.

 

[camakazee]

I gotcha Marcus, but I am only 34 as well. I have been raising these boys since I was a boy. I have really been looking forward to being kidless, well at least teenboyless for years. It is suprising to me how emotional I have been this year.

Easier said than done. Jigo can't go teenboyless for longer than a week. But he promised me he's quitting cold turkey this New Years

 

[TJ Detweiler]

Every time I spend with my father is notable. He is the older, more mature version of me. We laugh at each others jokes, watch the Cavs and Browns. Complain about my mother(she's wacko. I would have divorced her long ago but my dad's extremely easy-going and the most understanding so he is able to put up with her bs.) Its awesome. Its going to suck when I go to college. My father is in his 50's and our whole family has a history of dying in their mid-late 60's so basically I have a decade left of him. When he dies its going to be the worst day of my life hands down, I wouldn't have just lost a parent.. I am going to lose a best friend.

It's scary.