To be annoyed at DH not playing along with ‘the guessing game’

[Bethan369]

DS 10 spent 2 hours this afternoon making a little stop action animation. He had to take over 200 photos to make it and was proud of himself when it was finished. He was excited to show DH when he got in from work and said ‘I’m going to get him to guess how long it took me and how many photos I had to take!’

He had asked me to guess too and, as you do, I guessed low ‘20 pictures? 30?50?’ then feigned surprise when he said 200 followed by ‘wow that must have taken you ages we’ll done!’

Now DH’s not stupid, he watched the video and then guessed that it’d taken him 3 hours and 200 photos.

I know this is very petty and obviously I’m not raging or anything but I just thought why can’t you just play along, let the lad surprise you instead of being a know it all!

But since DH guessed 200 pictures and 3 hours, DS answer would be 200 but I did it in 2 hours. All good.
Why would you guess 20 pictures if it's a complex animation?

DaphneFanshaw he didn’t say it no but when I guessed incorrectly he was excited to tell me the right answer and said excitedly that ‘I’m going to see if dad can guess’ when he gets in. He just wanted to surprise him.

It was really good to be fair to him. It was a Star Wars scene, he had the figures climbing ropes, he used blue tack and cotton wool as smoke coming out of the weapons, they had a fight then a (random) Lego rubbish truck picked up the dead guy.

Right, I’m bored of talking about this now, it happened hours ago and my moment of being mildly annoyed has passed. The vent helped.

Your son isnt 5, you dont have to baby him.

I understand that as strangers it might seem odd that DS ‘wants’ the wrong answer but DH has been his dad for 10 years! He should know his personality by now, all he wanted was to surprise him.

Maybe he’s just a bit sick of the guessing game. No one wants to be the one to admit it, but sometimes a child’s love of repetition can drive a parent mad. My mother admitted to me a few years ago that she’d hidden my toy post office as she just couldn’t face ‘buying’ another dog licence.

I don't think he's been a knob unless there's we don't know.

Does your son want adults to pretend to guess or to actually guess. If he wants them to pretend to guess and give a way off mark answer like you did then did dh know he was playing a game instead of answering with an actual guess?

My nephew (9) is always asking me to guess which wrestler will lose, the one time I said something daft he laughed at me and said he knows I'm not that daft and to guess properly.

If your son wasn't expecting him to pretend guess and he isn't upset that he did an actual guess then why do think he's a knob?

why is everyone looking far too much into this😂 yes i agree, OP.. he was being a knob end of

All the posters shaming the OPs DS for still liking something they consider 'babyish' - piss off. Children who enjoy childish things for longer should be encouraged. Kids these days have to grow up way too fast.

OP - yep I'd be annoyed that DS had been disappointed but I'd also be proud of the fact that it didn't seem to throw him - resilience is great.