The Parenting Thread...

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[theraskal]

If you can find one with half decent conversation and invite him over, he shows up wanting to cook for you and talk, for fuck’s sake.

[Masato]

My daughter finally left home. AT least for now, lol

She went to the USA this morning for at least 2 months. Found a place in a little surf town in Florida. Her and a friend are on a road trip driving there right now.

I am heartbroken.

When I was her age, I was off on all sorts of domestic adventures, not keeping in touch with my parents at all. I was quite neglectful to be honest, embarrassingly so
When my wife was her age, she had already moved by herself from Brazil to Canada, poor, not even knowing English

So I know adventure is in my daughter's blood, lol.
I can only hope and pray that I raised her right and that she is strong and smart.

Pretty weird. I suddenly sympathize with people who have gone full 'empty nest'. I still have my son and nephew here to keep us busy lol but that day will come, I think I just got a taste of it

[Vutulaki]

Empty nest sounds good right about now, these little bastards drive me nuts

Looking forward to not being a "loser single dad" and enjoying the freedom of simply being a loser lol

[Masato]

My daughter is in Florida now, right in the wake of this hurricane Milton.

She is on the east side near Orlando, so won't get hit as hard as the west side, but still expected to do some damage/flooding.

She was lucky to be invited to another place for the storm with some good people farther away from the coast, with generators and food stocks etc. That's where she is now, though they lost power/connection some time through the night.

I am guessing she is fine and maybe hear from her in another day or 2.

Prayers for everyone else down there too, it was predicted Tampa was gonna get rocked but let's see. DisneyWorld is flooded but I don't give a fuck about them lol

If she survives, I think it will actually be a great experience for her. She wanted to be on her own, she wanted adventure, well here you go lol. Welcome to this big and chaotic world . Good stories for later in life, how she was there in a big famous hurricane etc. Staying safe breeds no tales, right?

[Masato]

parents, have a listen;

[Masato]

Just got back from Miami Florida USA

My daughter is enrolled in a school there starting in Oct.

She had spent some time in a small beach town north of Florida last year and loved it. It's been her dream to move there to pursue all her goals etc.

So we enrolled her at the school and found a reasonably cheap place for her to rent in Miami, and I just went with her for a crash 3 days to get her settled. In Miami it seems you need a car for any functional mobility (public transit is limited and likely not safe for a young girl on her own etc., so in that 3 days we managed to find and get a used car for her. It was not easy as Canadians, but we got it done.

I had to leave her there yesterday with an unpacked apartment with a million things left to do and learn.

As a dad, it was one of the hardest things I've had to do yet. I did my best to stay positive and just be helpful and encouraging, but inside it was just a storm of emotional pain and worry.

But we got the car, the apartment looks nice (we had not seen it for realz yet, only online, which was super freaky. Neither of us had been to Miami so did not know any of the neighbourhoods which ones good or bad. It was all just online research), but Miami was way cooler than I ever expected. I like to hope my research paid off, as I think there are a lot of slummy ghetto neighborhoods, and to be honest at the start of looking for a place for her I was looking in some of those neighbourhoods. It only wasn't until later I realized I was putting her in a bad spot and had figured out there were nicer neighbourhoods that were still possible to rent and not too far from the school. But still without seeing with your own eyes, how can anyone understand any city?

I had worries that it would be a really rough big city I was dropping my daughter into, with dirt and crime and hardcore stuff that she wouldn't be ready for, but it was actually super clean and friendly and organized and chill. Granted I did not actually go into the real heart of the city, her apartment and school was in a different area... she is in a place called MIAMI BEACH, which was actually really nice and impressive.

She is walking distance to the beach, there's water all around with little connected islands and waterways amd modern bridges everywhere, all the buildings are clean shiny white, it's like some fantasy water-city or something.

Anyways my heart is broken. Crazy to let your kids actually go but I guess that's the way it's gotta be.

MIAMI BEACH FLORIDA

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I heard Tony Montana lives there.