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48 sats \ 6 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 8 Dec \ on: My simple pleasures of parenting. What’s yours? FiresidePhilosophy
There is only so much time you have with them. You have to make the best of it because by the time they are 14 or 15 they will want much less to do with you. Treasure and cherish this time you have with them because you will never have it again. It makes your and their memories that last. Once they graduate from high school you won’t see them much at all because they become very busy with their own lives. I guess you could say that this is the way of life.
My simple pleasure was doing cub scouts with my three sons. It was the best period of my life and I hope theirs, too.
Did your father do Scouts with you, that’s why you wanted to carry on this fine tradition?
Thanks for the sobering words!
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No, unfortunately, he didn’t do scouts with me. In fact, I only lasted about 6 months when I was a kid. There was no tradition there. We did scouts because there was not a whole lot of variety of things to do in a small town. Scouts was the height of excitement for a lot of young boys.
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Assuming that you lived in a small town in Shizuoka, how would you compare living between your hometown n this Japanese town?
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We lived on the “other side of the river” from the main part of the city in Shizuoka. The people there called it “the country”. We had a hatake in the back of our apartment. So I guess you could call that “country” if you lived in Japan, however, it had all the shops and grocery stores and etc as a suburban area in America.
We lived in a place that was considered country even in the US. The population of the town was about 2500 and the middle school and high school were in the same building. So, there was not a whole lot of things going on. For most of the time we lived there, there wasn’t even a McDonalds!
So living in Shizuoka’s “country” was a lot more like living in a city than in our small town here. In both places you could pretty much walk to where ever you wanted to go. The big difference is that there was a lot more of “nature” in the US small town. In our yard we had some big pine trees, a couple of plum trees and an apple tree. In the trees we had martins, squirrels and lots of different birds. We also had a really enjoyable birdfeeder outside our main window. We had fun going out to the countryside to visit our farmer friends and sometimes work for them. It was a lot different from living in Shizuoka.
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As a born n bred city boy, I can’t imagine living so intimately with nature. It must have been nice
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Yes, it was very nice and my kids enjoyed it, too. We went into the country often. There were lots of woods, forests and farms around to traipse around in. A close friend had a farm on a river for fishing and fun.
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