Growing up, did you have a favorite activity you would do with your parent (s) or alternatively what do you do with your own kids as a fun tradition?

[Ez-Bri-Z]

You know, stuff like dad tossing the ball with his son or mom teaching her daughter how to throw the perfect pass for the NFL.

What was you favorite memory with them or what is your favorite memory with your own kids in fun time spent together.

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Oh, yeah can't do that. Lol we are on a goal to have our kids have perfect attendance their entire scholastic career

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[hearvoices]

My dad was a workaholic and my mom was never into recreation much. But I played a lot of checkers and crazy 8's with my grandfather. I spent far more time with my grandfather than my father. We spent a lot of time in the outdoors too. A lot of fishing. Every time I spent a weekend with he and nan, he would take me for KFC even though he barelyhad a cent to his name. Every single time. And he didn't even really like it, he just knew I did. He's been dead since 99, but I still really miss him. And I gotta stop there because I'm tearing up writing this.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

I'm so sorry for your loss but its always nice to have someone like that for you.

[hearvoices]

Thank you. You're a very kind person.

[HugoThe2nd]

When I was young, I would go sledding with my father as soon as there would be snow outside.
It was my all time favorite thing to do with my parent (s) because my father enjoyed doing it too.

I ended up liking whatever it was that my father liked doing, because when it came to pretty much everything else, my parents never shied away from making it known just how much of a bother it was spending time with me.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

😔 I'm sorry hun

[HugoThe2nd]

Thank you girl.
It's all good, I have people I like spending time with now.

[MTC29]

During the scorching hot Southern California summers, one of the high schools would opened it's swimming pool to the public a few hours in the afternoons. Money in our little 3 person household was always tight, but since the use of the pool was free, my mom would load my sister into the car and off we'd go to the pool.

My mother was a very good swimmer, so she would change into her swimsuit and get into the pool with us. She was young and slender, and very pretty. She seemed so different from the other mom's at the pool. On the way home, we'd stop off for ice cream at the Thrifty Drug Store. A singe-scoop cone was 5 cents.

I have great memories of those pool days.

[TurboKid]

My father is a car fanatic and he loved the car he had when I was a boy. He had a red Ford Mustang convertible. It looked somewhat like this although I don't know the exact model/year (I didn't take after his passion for cars):

But he loved to take us for long rides on the mountains in the car and also loved to blast 80s music like this:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qt2mbGP6vFI

[TurboKid]

That was his #1 favorite song and he'd sing along real loud in the convertible. I heard it like a gazillion times and it turned into an epic earworm. I'm not sure I actually enjoyed the experience that much as a kid. :-D But it's one of my most nostalgic memories with my father blasting 80s music and singing along while driving fast along mountains.

[Dinklex3]

I used to love visiting them at work tbh, lol.
My mom was military so I used to love going to her building and seeing poking all the tanks and trucks. They had "picnics" too so all her coworkers would bring their kids too and we'd run around and play for hours.
Before he retired my dad was a med tech and I used to love visiting him in the hospital and his clinic because we'd always get lollipops, lol. When he became a stay at home dad cooking with him and just hanging out with him was always fun 🤗 I grew up as a complete "daddy's girl" lol.

[loves2learn]

My dad took every Friday off so he would take me to art museums and out to lunch. A variety of ethnic cuisines. We both loved that.
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Every new years day the kids and I bake cookies with my mom. It’s a fun tradition.
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And every 3-4 years we take the kids to Disney. Which was hubs and my first vacay together 20 years ago, where we got engaged and where we honeymooned.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

True story... never been to Disney in my life.

Also true story, I think I've seen less than 10 Disney cartoons in my life.

[loves2learn]

My first trip to Disney was when I was 18. My parents never took me. It was THE best vacation I had ever been on in my life. We’ve been back several times. One of the most memorable of which was when my sister in law and I were both pregnant. It was fun to have someone to hang out with while our boys rode the rides we were restricted from with their dads.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

Sounds like it would be fun and my kids would love it... but ooof my anxiety in large crowds would cripple me

[loves2learn]

We travel in May before school is out to avoid the overcrowding.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

Oh, yeah can't do that. Lol we are on a goal to have our kids have perfect attendance their entire scholastic career

[loves2learn]

Awwww. That’s sweet.

[ArrowheadSW]

I have lots of good memories of my parents. Playing catch with my dad when he got home from work when I was a child. My mom taking to places of interest when I was growing up. My dad unfortunately died young and I was 19 at the time. My mom is elderly and was just moved in to a memory care home today. So today is somewhat of an emotional time for me.

[hannahjo022]

My favorite activity with my mom was going shopping of course. With my dad, he would take my brother and I to the park, swimming, and out to eat. My favorite activity with my family would be playing badminton. That was a popular activity with my family growing up. They played that game with their family growing up. I played it so much became too good at it. Wish it was a sport played in middle and high school. Would been a beast at it in school.

[Miah02]

My mom we would cook meals.
I would put on my little apron and pretend to be a chef.
My pops we get out and play basketball every night till mom would yell at us that we need go to bed. Or the neighbors was gonna complain we were keeping them up

[exitseven]

My father took us fishing a lot. We always caught all kinds of fish and sometimes we would catch sand sharks. Sometimes we would fish for herring with a spear as well. I did this with my own kids but the waters have been overfished and it just is not the same.

[DaveToo]

My Mom and Dad were hard workers, and up until my dad passed away, there wasn't much interaction. My daughters, I tried to make sure they were involved in physical activities, softball, t-ball, soccer, tennis, and so on. The youngest wasn't that interested in cars but the oldest wanted to learn how to change oil, fix brakes, and tune-ups. So I taught her those rudimentary things.

I did involve my youngest in my role-playing game on AOL, and we had a lot of fun with that. I took them both to movies from time to time.

[jennifer_bloom]

When I was a kid my parents would play checkers with me and my uncle would play card games with me and sometimes they would buy me toys or crafts I could do on my own.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

Aww I would have loved if my parents played board games with us. Thats so awesome!

[DarkCarousel]

Card games. Both my mother’s side and father’s side played card games with their families. They were ruthless.

[IAMNathanael]

Dad taking me and sis to the park. A very large park with water, grass hills and trees and paths

[krin_m]

Spending time in the kitchen or in the backyard using the grill, experimenting with recipes.
Did it with my dad and my son!

[shouldnobetter]

We'd go fishing or hunting. I wasn't around much when my boys were growing up, I was in the military and and spent most of my time concentrating on my work. I'm sorry about that today.

[COMMODOREII]

Board games were so fun

[Ez-Bri-Z]

This is my favorite thing in the world to do with my kids.

[CubaPirate]

Cricket on the beach on holidays