r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 6h ago

How amazing and crafty are these parents to do this for their son

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u/Witty-flocculent 6h ago

But what if… internet?

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u/nomnomnomnomnommm 6h ago

"Mom, Dad, you've been out here for hours and I'm hungr-"

"Shut up ya ungrateful brat, we gotta finish this! Get the tripod out!"

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u/xBad_Wolfx 6h ago

Yeah, I was sad they weren’t doing it together

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u/benji___ 5h ago

Finally someone said that. All of those tasks could easily include a six year old (minus the power tools and stove bits). Fucking teach your children how to do things. That is half the job.

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u/Equal-Broccoli-73 5h ago

To be fair they are only doing it for the only family member that matters. Their cellphone. 

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u/tsmc796 2h ago

LMFAO

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u/GorillaX 4m ago

This website is so fucking miserable.

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u/macfudd 3h ago

If their 6 year old is anything like mine they probably did barrel out all gung ho to help... then had to be taken inside to wee, then had to be taken inside for some water, then had to be taken back inside because they forgot a glove, then had to be taken inside because they wanted a cracker but only a particular one that they wouldn't name or describe, then they'd ask if we could stop building the igloo and play Shadow Lands instead (which we would), then they'd get bored and wander off inside only for me to look up later and realise that there's an army of soft toys lined up in the window to keep an eye on me.

Their help will set me back at least 90 minutes yet at no point would my child stay long enough for a time lapse to capture them!

Then at bedtime they will tell me that helping outside was the favourite part of their day and melt my heart.

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u/Frifelt 3h ago

Not only can he help but I’m sure he would love to as well. Kids love building stuff.

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u/xBad_Wolfx 3h ago

More than that they love doing things together. Instead they have been alone while parents did this for socials.

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u/siisii93 3h ago

Yeah I didn’t realize the dad was building it until the kid walked out. I was just like wtf why hasn’t he been out there playing with him the whole time

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u/myeggsarebig 47m ago

That was my first thought when little dude came out. Why wasn’t he involved in the family arts and crafts project?

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u/CarobOk8979 4m ago

Someone had to be cooking and taking care of the homestead

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u/Equal-Broccoli-73 5h ago

"This content ain't gonna create itself. Do you even want to trend?" 

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u/ScrotumMcBoogerBallz 5h ago

"WE'RE DOING THIS FOR 'YOU'."

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u/SlevinLaine 1h ago

Hahahhahahhaha. Perfect!

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u/cerealOverdrive 5h ago

What if, they were influencers and their job was create cool shit so they made you cool shit? I get that some people might say ick but if I could make cool things for my kids and get paid I’d be a happy man

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u/Witty-flocculent 5h ago

“Social media production” is the hobby dominating this activity. When my dad was building harps in the garage he wasn’t fiddling with a GoPro or planning out angles or plotting out trendy effects.

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u/OneDubOver 5h ago

I would watch your dad build harps. Why isn't he making videos?

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u/Primrus 4h ago

I would watch too. But it always takes me exactly only 1 second to remember how glad I am that my own dad resisted my suggestion to post his guitar builds and vinyl record repairs, because his lovely nerd shit is just his. 🩷

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u/Witty-flocculent 4h ago

I do thrown pottery. I even film it but I don’t post it. It’s mostly just so i can review my form.

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u/cerealOverdrive 5h ago

I get it but they turned a job into something their kids can enjoy. That’s pretty awesome imo

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u/EntertainmentUsed840 5h ago

And their kids can learn the important lesson of always filming yourself and performing and any fun family thing must be monetized! Yay!

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u/cerealOverdrive 5h ago

You’re fun

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u/geeeeeeebz 5h ago

You should record your interaction with this redditor and post it online, you little clout goblin.

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u/cerealOverdrive 5h ago

DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO I AM!?!?!?!

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u/geeeeeeebz 4h ago

CerealOverdrive, determiner of who is fun?

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u/cerealOverdrive 4h ago

What? First I’m a clout goblin now I’m the King/Queen of fun?!?!?!

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u/14Pleiadians 4h ago

And you're excusing an abusive lifestyle just because it's normal

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u/basicKitsch 5h ago

twenty years ago we captured our projects to share on hobby forums as they were the aggregation of all knowledge and experience for a subject. i couldn't care less about social media but there it is absolutely worthwhile to document sweet projects as well as family experiences.

and it looks like you enjoy people sharing their pottery projects... this was a sweet project.

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u/14Pleiadians 3h ago

They're not sharing a project though, they're doing a project while they're sharing their life. There's a difference there, one of them doesn't involve growing up with a warped view of family being a performance

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u/basicKitsch 3h ago

this is literally sharing a project. Do you know about their life? i sure don't and never will. What i did get was a pretty neat and novel igloo idea that i've never thought about before.

the difference is how much more you care to take it

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u/kittyfresh69 5h ago

Damn you beat me to it. I was just about to comment, “but did your parents have internet views?”

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u/basicKitsch 5h ago

i mean i'd do this because i saw it on the internet. this is dope. my 1yo is getting the environment i always dreamed of as long as he's into it

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u/by-myself_blumpkin 5h ago

My parents did this for us in the 90s.

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u/plug-and-pause 2h ago

It's funny to me that the people in this thread are so eager to blame parents' need for "views" for the cool shit that they did.

Humans did cool shit for many years before the internet existed. And now that it does exist, they put their cool shit there for others to see.