Have and raise children.
They raised me 👉😎👉
Also I’m not having kids.
Hi, are you me?
Omg it’s like looking in a mirror!
They successfully don’t know Lemmy.
Why is this being asked in the past tense?
I didn’t even notice. Perhaps OP also no longer has living parents.
It also could be referencing something that they were better at in their prime, but may no longer be able to do due to age. Like answering running if your dad was a professional runner or something.
Passive aggressive-ism.
Not getting their kid properly checked for ADHD
My dad is way better at car maintenance and handy work. Machines just talk to him.
My dad failed his 11+ so was sent to a technical school so he actually learnt how to lay a row of bricks or how to beat out lead flashing. He did end up doing a PhD in Physics but I suspect his early school years explain why he’s always been much more practical than me. My wife was a stage tech during uni so I’ll happily defer to her for joinery. I can just about solder a copper pipe or big pads on a PCB.
I learned a lot about home maintenance and handiwork from my dad, but then I started looking stuff up and realized he’s been stubbornly doing a lot of projects the wrong way.
It ain’t wrong if it gets done.
–dad
Why fix what ain’t broke?
— also dad
My mom was relatively successful, without much post highschool education at a time, and sometimes in a field, that were much more difficult for women.
Own a home
They are both intellectually superior to me and my brother, their only children. I’m pretty sure he and I are a bit of a disappointment to both of them, but they would never admit that.
The “normal” stuff, getting someone to stay with them and marrying them, losing their virginity, living by their own, having kids. I will never reach any of that.
Never is a very long time my friend.
Going to college, getting a good job after acquiring a degree, holding that job for decades, retiring, being able to afford a middle-class lifestyle.
Ironing and folding clothes
My dad can keep a job better than me. He’s had like five jobs, each one for over ten years.
I’ve had like 30 jobs, and the longest for maybe 1.5 years. I’ve been fired a handful of times.
Somehow my father can just find a groove and stick with it. In me a dissatisfaction grows really fast and I waver on things.
same here and i think my parents got good at sticking with a groove because they had a family of 7 to feed, cloth, and house; meanwhile i have only had pets that don’t grow up to be shitty self entitled tweens.
Take care of me
Handy work, talking to people, handwriting
