The Official TFK Father's Issues Thread. I don't know how they do it

He has a lovely way about him though.

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Hard to find fault with that statement.

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Diary of a wimpy kid books are very good - for a 7 year old or so.

The kids books by David Walliams are great and the Danger books by David O Doherty are very good for a 6 or 7 year old boy

Holy fucking war with the ten year old last night. Looking for an I phone for Christmas. It ain’t happenin

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You shouldn’t have thrown a tantrum, pal. If you calmly explain to her why you want an iPhone then she might change her mind and buy you one.

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:rollseyes:

Look into getting one of the new IPod’s, does all the iphone does except make and take calls, you can set it up safely yourself so she’s not stumbling onto what she shouldn’t.
You can’t be giving a ten year old an Iphone.

She has one of those already horse. I’ve no problem getting her a phone. But am I fuck paying 350 euro for it. It’s just too much.

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She hates you either way so dont buy it

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Get it for her, pal.

She’ll be all grown up in a few years and you’ll be yearning for those innocent Christmases. Just imagine her face lighting up on Christmas morning.

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Is there any avoiding giving them a tablet or something like that? Assume they just ignore you completely when they get something like that?

She has a tablet chief. This started off at just a phone last month when Christmas was mentioned. Then it turned into an I phone last night I suspect someone at school brought it up and is either getting one or is looking for one.

Like I said, no problem with the phone. But it wonth be an I phone

Would she not just ask Santa instead

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She can ask away.

You’re acting the cunt here Mike in fairness. Nothing worse than ruining Christmas on a child.

You can get a decent smartphone for under 200 quid.

To be honest, I’d be reluctant to give a smartphone to a 10 y.o.

I’m not trying to ruin Christmas for her Fagan. But in real terms handing an I phone to a ten year old is just non sensical. She is the type of child that is very outgoing and loves to play. She has an I pod, tablet and God knowsave how many other bits and pieces if electrical stuff. All fucked in the corner. I just forked out 150 notes for a guitar for her last weekend which in fairness she uses. I agree she is at the age where she probably needs a phone. But an I phone no way. There are plenty of smart phone options out there for around the 200 mark.
Plus Mrs. IM is in absolute agreement.

Lads, any of yee with girls around 11-13 - how would you react to this? Mrs Macs sister woke up the other night to find her eldest daughter who’s just turned 12 heading out the door at 4am to go look at the big moon. They live on the outskirts of the town in a decent enough estate so its rarely you’d have any dodgy people walking around it at that hour of night. Only problem is that they (herself and a 15 year old Spanish student who’s living with them for the year) headed towards town.

Her father went after them after about 2-3 mins but couldn’t find them - not sure if he drove or was on foot. They eventually rang her after about 5 mins and roared at her to come home. She came home and has been joking about it ever since and not seeing any fault in what she did. Twas her idea to head out, not the Spanish students. In my day, she’d have been cut off from all civilisation for a long time to teach her a lesson but apparently nowadays doing that will provoke the wrong reaction. What would yee do in this scenario?

Handcuff her to the fucking bed

P.s I’m not convinced the Spaniards are as innocent as claimed

Fuck. All I can say chief is if I did that at 13, I wouldn’t have an arse left. But that’s not the answer either. I’ll need to sleep on this one.