Father and Son bonding (its all about the family)

As its currently half term, my son decided he would like to stop the night and chill with the old man.

With wifey off to work the following morning I thought about how best to entertain my son for the day. I did my contemplating in bed with my eyes closed until 12.30. I finally got up, needled into action by the errie silence from downstairs. I needn’t have concerned myself…Jake had busied himself with playing on the PS3. Not one to interrupt, I left him to it as I shuffled into the kitchen for brunch.

I returned in with some nutritious toast and biscuits and 2 cuppas and then belly-splashed fonzy style on the couch. For the next 3 hours I coached goaded and instructed Jake through various levels of this game before getting bored and sloping off to put up that chest of drawers that I’d been meaning to do for days…..

Then off to the Park Inn to shoot some pool. Which turned into snooker coz the pool cue ball was missing. Mutual frustration at not being able to pot anything and the game soon degenerated into snooker belt-em-up, thrashing the ball as hard as we could in the hope of a fluke pot. This whiled away another couple of hours.

When we had tired of that our minds turned to food so it was a short jaunt up to the Golden Arches (aka Maccy-D’s) for some healthy dinner.

On the way home Jake decided he would like me to show him some chords on the guitar. Well I’m pretty poor as most who have heard me will testify, but Jake can’t play a note and in the land of the blind the one eyed man is King.

Finally, at 9ish, 1 hour later than I’d said to Jake I would take him home and 3 hours later than I said to him mum I’d bring him home, I took Jake home. He loved it and is already talking about stopping over again before he goes back to school.

There’s too much emphasis these days on father and son bonding sessions and ‘heart-to-hearts’.
Although nothing constructive came of this inpromtu day, sometimes father and son need to just kick back and slob out.

So, is this a good example of 'right-on' parenting? Probably not.
Would this have been allowed to happen if wifey had been with us? Not a chance.
Did we have a good time? Damn right we did