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re: How do you break it to your kids when you have to go away for work?
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:37 pm to ksayetiger
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:37 pm to ksayetiger
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I took my boy to some random closed casket wake. Told him mommy was in there.
He cried, but the look on his face four days later when she walked though the door was priceless.
If helps when you spell it right
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Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:42 pm to OweO
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Man, parents are way more sensitive to their kids feelings these days. Mine parents would have been like "your dad has to go away for awhile to work, the company isn't sure when he will be finished. You will be able to talk to him on the phone from time to time." and I probably wouldn't think twice about it.
Seriously.
Y'all coddle your children to insane levels.
My dad would just go out of town on business. Just go. Sometimes we'd ask if he was in town and if he wasn't mom would say something like "no he is on a business trip" and then we'd just file that information and go about our lives. We never talked to him on the phone. Why would we want to talk to him more than the minimum we had to when he was home? He wasn't our friend or lover, he was our father.
This post was edited on 3/8/16 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:43 pm to fr33manator
My son is only 10 months old so he doesn't really understand that I have to go out of town for work, but as he gets older I am sure it will be hard. Luckily I am usually only gone 1-2 weeks max before I am home but most times it is less than that. My dad was a truck driver and do not believe it really affected by brother or I because we knew he was going for work and would be back on Friday so we were used to it.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:48 pm to OweO
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Man, parents are way more sensitive to their kids feelings these days. Mine parents would have been like "your dad has to go away for awhile to work, the company isn't sure when he will be finished. You will be able to talk to him on the phone from time to time." and I probably wouldn't think twice about it.
I can tell none of these baws work offshore.
Daddy's going back on the boat for a while, see ya'll when I get back.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:49 pm to fr33manator
I remember when I was a kid and my father had to travel abroad for work he would use it as a geography lesson to explain where he was at and why he wouldn't be able to visit for a while.
When he would travel to Tokyo or the Virgin Islands we would get out the map and he would run me through the connecting flight process. As a 5 year old it still sucked he was gone, but I did understand it.
When he would travel to Tokyo or the Virgin Islands we would get out the map and he would run me through the connecting flight process. As a 5 year old it still sucked he was gone, but I did understand it.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:50 pm to fr33manator
Never have.
You gonna be gone Baw? Found a job?
You gonna be gone Baw? Found a job?
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:50 pm to fr33manator
Your life sucks bad.
Write them a poem?
How old are your kids?
Write them a poem?
How old are your kids?
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:52 pm to fr33manator
Just tell them you're going to jail and you'll be the "cool dad"
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:53 pm to BRgetthenet
I'm trying. This is a tough spot for the poet. But life gives us all we can handle.
ETA: The age of his kids matters a lot in this conversation.
ETA: The age of his kids matters a lot in this conversation.
This post was edited on 3/8/16 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:53 pm to Cooter Davenport
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Seriously.
Y'all coddle your children to insane levels.
Dude, I'm all for being a dick to your kids to toughen them up but not seeing them sucks.
This post was edited on 3/8/16 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:55 pm to OweO
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Man, parents are way more sensitive to their kids feelings these days. Mine parents would have been like "your dad has to go away for awhile to work, the company isn't sure when he will be finished. You will be able to talk to him on the phone from time to time." and I probably wouldn't think twice about it.
See how that turned out for you?
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:56 pm to fr33manator
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This will probably be months
no way no how.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:58 pm to fr33manator
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This will probably be months
Only way I could do that is if no other options were available
I quite my heavy travel job once my wife got pregnant
hell my little girl said "don't leave me" with the saddest look on her face when I left after lunch yesterday to go back to work and it about tore me up
Posted on 3/8/16 at 12:59 pm to mikelbr
Thankfully I haven't had to since my kids were born. It was bad enough when it was just my wife and I. I wasn't gone a ton, but when I was it would be leaving before sunrise on Monday and not home until late Friday. Then getting up and at the office at 8 on Saturdays until I was done. And it was always at least a two week stretch. So I would basically get to see my wife for Sunday in a two week stretch. Once I was gone for like 5-6 weeks straight. And the only days we really saw each other was one day a week, and that was spent doing laundry and packing up for the next week, getting stuff caught up around the house, it basically sucked. I got out of that type of job before having kids.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 1:03 pm to fr33manator
Always stayed in touch at least once a week and made sure I had something fun for us to do when I would come back home. I grew up in a family situation where my father figure worked 28/28. As a young kid during summer it was fantastic. We would go fishing almost every single day. The time away goes faster for the kids than the parent usually. The one on one time spent with the parent when other parents are at work is something they don't ever forget.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 1:05 pm to DipperJones
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Where's the offshore 7/7, 14/14, etc. oilfield baws at? They probably have some good advice.
I'd guess its a little different for them since its usually their stepkids from their live-in girlfriend's 2nd marriage that they're leaving....
Posted on 3/8/16 at 1:08 pm to fr33manator
The most important thing you can give a child is your time
Posted on 3/8/16 at 1:09 pm to redstick13
It sucked for me when mine were young going to work 24hrs/24hr shifts. That is the age mine were. 3 and 5.
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