Tell HN: My 9YO son said: “Dad! Stop reading Hacker News”

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by hguhghuff • 8 years ago

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iampoul• 8 years ago

Of course he did. :)

chmaynard• 8 years ago

Dad, drop your hands and back away from the computer. Nobody has to get hurt.

japhyr• 8 years ago

My son is 7, and he's been saying that for about 4 years now. :)

It's become a bad dad joke. He'll ask me to look up some origami, and I'll go to HN. But seriously, he's gotten used to me sharing really interesting articles and conversations from HN. I think he'll start to enjoy it himself sometime in the next ~5 years.

saluki• 8 years ago

Speaking of dad jokes.

When my son searches using siri/voice and I'm in the room/car I yell out PRINCESS at the end of all his searches.

ddorian43• 8 years ago

He told you to think about Donald Trump, transgenders, or suffering in Syria , right ?

atonse• 8 years ago

Ahhh the warm embrace of the orange band on top.

AnimalMuppet• 8 years ago

Does he mean "stop reading HN", or "stop reading HN to me"?

If he means "stop reading it to me", yeah, I'm with him. Having someone consistently reading stuff to you that they see on the internet (not just HN) gets old, especially if it's stuff that you're not as interested in as they are.

If he means "stop reading it", though... one of my biggest regrets from those days is how often I was too busy doing stuff I wanted to do to be available for my kids. I regret how often I chose to do something else rather than give them love.

Make sure you love your kids more than you love HN. Make sure that they know that you love them more than you love HN. If that puts a crimp in your reading HN, so be it. Love them anyway.

curuinor• 8 years ago

Well, why don't you?

tmaly• 8 years ago

Spend as much time with your kids as you can while they are still young. They grow up fast.

Tell HN: My 9YO son said: “Dad! Stop reading Hacker News”

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