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To be in awe at what a show off this dad was

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Driveamazdashopatasda · 18/06/2019 14:46

I'm just back from taking my youngest to the paddling pool/splash park at the leisure centre. It's for under eights, so the morning session is full of the usual assortment of parents with babies and toddlers

This very muscled, tattooed dad was there with his toddler son. He was definitely performance parenting, chucking the child around, hooraying all over the place, and quite obviously looking round to check that everyone else was watching him. He was being a bit of a pain, to be honest, perching on top of the giant mushroom spouting water thing, jumping off, making huge waves which caused a mini tsunami to hit the babies in their floaty things, that sort of nonsense. I could see a few of the other mums rolling their eyes. The pool is not huge and is really not the place for that sort of bouncing around.

Imagine our surprise when this idiot then dropped to the ground in the shallowest end of the splash pool and started doing press ups complete with loud grunting and hand claps, and yells of "come on, Child's Name! Time me, time me! Huh! Huh! Huh!" I think he got to about twenty

Child in question was sitting under a stream of water looking utterly baffled.

Everyone was like this Confused

Bloody press ups in the paddling pool!

OP posts:
eBae · 20/06/2019 20:21

Wait... what? I want a baby alpaca on a lead! Does it come with a certificate in Performance Parenting or can I just have the alpaca?

YoThePussy · 20/06/2019 21:04

Oh come on, to truly perform with a baby alpaca you need a portable spinning wheel so you can be spinning its wool whilst waiting for DC to come out of school.

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