Dadlopnik: Doing something right

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher) 01/17/2017 at 19:56 • Filed to: Dadlopnik

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When I picked up the girls tonight, the 4-year old enthusiastically, repeatedly, and very sweetly asked ... to go to Home Depot. How could I say no to that? Answer: can’t.

random001 > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 19:59

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Internet dad high five!

Steve in Manhattan > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 19:59

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It’s never too early to teach them about the virtues of duct tape.

shop-teacher > random001 01/17/2017 at 20:00

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Back at ya!

Chariotoflove > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:00

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Good dad. True to your handle.

shop-teacher > Steve in Manhattan 01/17/2017 at 20:01

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Indeed! The big one was asking questions about the tools. She picked out a utility knife :)

shop-teacher > Chariotoflove 01/17/2017 at 20:01

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Thanks! I do what I can :)

leicester > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:04

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Savor it - eventually she’ll be a teen.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:05

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That’s some quality daddy daughter time there.

jimz > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:05

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I’m seeing a future engineer.

Nibby > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:06

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did you buy her anything?

CaptDale - is secretly British > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:06

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Well, you’re not a total monster after all.

Tazio, Count Fouroff > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:08

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Just go ahead now and get her her welding helmet!

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:09

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Good parenting

cheaper and more discrete

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:22

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A bit young to be teaching her how to cut locks no?

OPPOsaurus WRX > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 01/17/2017 at 20:39

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Home depotusually seems to know there stuff. Lowes....

Also wtf is that lock made of? Plastic?

shop-teacher > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 01/17/2017 at 20:40

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Nice!

shop-teacher > jimz 01/17/2017 at 20:40

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She is very interested in all things mechanical.

shop-teacher > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/17/2017 at 20:41

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Gotta learn sometime, right?

OPPOsaurus WRX > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:41

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I think my girls were 2 when one looks out of the car window and goes are we going to home depot? I couldn’t believe she could recognize the sign that young

shop-teacher > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 01/17/2017 at 20:41

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Indeed. The best!

shop-teacher > CaptDale - is secretly British 01/17/2017 at 20:42

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Just a partial monster ;)

shop-teacher > leicester 01/17/2017 at 20:42

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I know. I teach middle school.

shop-teacher > Nibby 01/17/2017 at 20:43

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Not this time. We’re also trying to teach her that she doesn’t get to have everything she wants, even if she asks nicely.

Should have bought her a screwdriver or something though.

Quasi Hatrack > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/17/2017 at 20:44

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Yeah, I’d be more interested in seeing that trick done on one of these:

shop-teacher > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/17/2017 at 20:45

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That’s about when it started actually. Summers when I’m home with them, we probably go there about once a week, whether we need anything or not. It’s a good way to get out of the house.

Nibby > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 20:54

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Good parenting.

Could’ve at least bought her a chainsaw.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > OPPOsaurus WRX 01/17/2017 at 20:57

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I’ve had the opposite experience. Last week i was in HD and a guy was going through the wood looking for ones not warped. He was neatly stacking them, when one of the employees came over and started flipping out “whats wrong with the wood, just grab one and move on!”

shop-teacher > Nibby 01/17/2017 at 21:22

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Maybe next time.

shop-teacher > Tazio, Count Fouroff 01/17/2017 at 21:22

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In due time!

leicester > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 23:04

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Good work. I have a friend who was long-time middle school teacher (now principal) who said - they have so much else going on socially and physically, it’s a surprise they can learn anything - they should just be out digging ditches...

That said - the demise of music, art and shop programs in middle and high schools is a detriment to education - the mind-body problem solving, the creative outlet, and the flexibility of learning for those kids that don’t learn from books, or for whom the college-career track isn’t the best fit.

EL_ULY > shop-teacher 01/17/2017 at 23:46

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Home Depot > Chuck E. Cheese!

shop-teacher > leicester 01/18/2017 at 07:13

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Agreed on all fronts. Fortunately I work for a district in a community that values these programs very much, and is willing to fight for them. Before I worked there, the district decided to shut down the middle school shop program. Hundreds of people turned up to the board meetings, their tool boxes in hand, to demand they keep the program. The mayor of the town made an impassioned speech about how he was completely lost an aimless as a youth, until the program taught him something he was interested in and gave him a direction. It worked.

shop-teacher > EL_ULY 01/18/2017 at 07:13

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WERD!

Steve in Manhattan > shop-teacher 01/18/2017 at 08:01

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And you get to buy her her first Leatherman.

Jobjoris > shop-teacher 03/05/2017 at 17:04

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Better watch out she’s not using that on her pull-back gullwing! Good parenting here!!!

shop-teacher > Jobjoris 03/05/2017 at 17:39

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Haha! She didn’t get to take them home. She did get her first screw driver a couple weeks ago though. She managed to change the batteries in her little sister’s toy almost entirely by herself a few days ago. I was so proud!