As a father of a now adult guppy, I listened to your story and it made me smile. Way to go Dad! Sometimes the boys need to unplug from the electronics and get their hands dirty and maybe a little sweaty too. I love my video games too, but life is about balance and moderation. Thanks for the fun story.
Ageing disorder, very hush hush. Body ages but the humor sense stops maturing somewhere in the teens. Absolutely delightful as long as nobody tells Gadzee about it! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰🤗
I have a 47 year old guppy. As a little guppy he was always out side with friends riding his bike and whatever else. As a big guppy he sits on his computer from the time he gets up until whenever he goes to bed. Yes, he has a big guppy job. I can't take his computer away but I could really use some out of doors help in the garden. My 13 year old grand guppy is constantly plugged in too. I get the computer at all the odd hours (there's 2 computers in the house, one shared amongst 3 people), like after they go to bed. That's hardly enough time to watch all the Gold Prospecting videos of the 4 people I follow, and the jewellery making videos that give me inspiration.
Had a very similar experience with my oldest guppy when he was 12. He decided to volumize some select adult words towards me and his mother to which I replied by taking his PlayStation 3 outside and dumping an entire mag of incendiary 762 rounds into it at 20 yards, never had any bad words from him again and he never argued when we told him to turn the PlayStation 4 off after that. It was an expensive lesson for both of us but the PS3 needed to go anyway ☺️ Country life is nice!
I used to offer them for sale at the cash register at my local supermarket - they come complete with clothes and school uniforms! Never had any takers... Now I enjoy embarrassing them but you learn to pick your times to do it.... like seeing them walking down the street with their newest boyfriend so I drive past with Midnight Oil playing really loud, windows down, toot the horn and wave with a big smile! One BF got a bit mouthy so I told him how in my first job I worked in a lab where we did animal autopsies for zoos and research, but I had never had the chance to see a human one. I would then mention I still have all my knives and tools and ask if he wanted to be my test subject. I mean after doing an autopsy on a dead full grown elephant... gore is not a problem! I would then smile and watch them turn white. Some would ask my daughters later if I was joking and they would go "Nope... she stills has them and you should see how sharp some of them are!" Being a single mum isn't easy, especially when you are all of 5 foot 2 or 160 cm and you kid is dating someone almost a foot taller than you!
@@skwervin1 I reckon that you have being a single Mum covered. Any boyfriend stupid enough to get mouthy with a Mum equipped with her own set of disection knives deserves to be your first human test cadaver. Just make sure to be preparing a meat dish for dinner so that they can see your knlfe skills in action! That sounds like great fun! 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
That was funny. I don't have any kids but I got plenty of niece's and nephews! That story reminds me of 2 of my nephews when they were younger. Now one is in college, and the other is a senior in high school. Your story reminds me of so many memories from when they were little.
I have three kids. Been right there with you many times. If we can’t find humor in the crazy way the kids act then we would go crazy right along with them.
Man, this is so reminiscent of my own guppy. Hours on the switch, then chore time comes and it’s complain city. Oh you want to complain? That’s a nice switch there. Be a shame if something were to…happen to it haha
I ain't even a father yet.. just an oncle of 5, soon to be 6 "guppies", as you lovingly call 'em, and this gave me a good laugh. This is a good way to parent. Mr.Bogusis, prospector, youtuber and family man extraordinaire. Love you man. Keep the good vids coming and living the good life :)
@ Spud Engeneering- Cris, cheers to your homestead! Ducks... Just an FYI incase you haven't had them before. THey are a pain in the a$$. Prone to inllness, need concstnt fresh water to bath in, noisy and though nice eggs and tasty meat, They Are A Pain!!!. I know a number of previous duck owners, myself included. Get chickens, if you want eggs and meat. Duck is amazingingly tasty but not easy to deal with. Cheers again. Having a home is a great thing.
Oh Chris, I’m so glad you’re getting to experience parenting properly, lol! After years and years of taking 3 kids to 3 different schools in the mornings, and coaching football and baseball in the evenings, I was ready to enjoy some ME time…I’m ashamed to say I really miss the chaos. But not to worry, I’m just a few years from the grandkids starting organized sports.
I have a love hate relationship with my kids and their tech. Some games I can see benefit in, sure. Sometimes we need to go in to zombie mode and disconnect from reality (like me now!). I do also know that our brain responds to it in different ways and gives us different hormones and does neurological things that we crave... so it can be a rabbit hole for sure. There ain't no good/easy/bestest way to do this parenting thing other than doing our best and taking time to reflect on what we are doing... like your vid! Kicking ass daddyo, keep up the good work
betting on that guppy going to school and feeling proud of his hard work and feeling more sure of himself.. with switch in hand of course! we all need a support switch/phone lol
Well done Chris. It's easy to not see the problem until it's way way to late. Anytime you catch it is the right time. The balance is always different for every different moment and child. It's good to laugh and be relaxed about it all or we would be going down the hole too. Cheers and thanks for sharing.
No to the ducks, they smell real bad and not near the house, we had one duck and there was duck landmines everywhere and if you walked in one, dang that stuff was just beyond the smell of hell itself. Your choice though, good luck with the ducks, just call one Gadsy just for the hell of it "Gadsy the Duck" Quack Quack - Go forth and explore young Ducky Gadz Keep it real Chris and Heavy Pans
Chris please explain this concept to my wife! Lol She is into the belief that a child should never be disciplined. Hence the reason she lives with her parents. Because they are the same way and choose to enable bad behaviors! Keep up the great work brother!
My guppy is nearly 19, just about to finish school. He got himself a casual job at the local hotel, so paying for him to do The Responsible Serving of Alcohol course last year at the school I work at has paid off. The funny thing is that no sooner had he started and got his first pay, then he was asking me if he should ask for more shifts so he could earn more money! 😂😂😂 I advised caution, to get used to school and work and by then Christmas will be coming up and they will want more hours from him. He lives with his Mum and half brother and he now rings me when he wants advice on stuff. He has quickly realised that earning money takes effort and he doesn't want to waste his money. We also had a discussion about superannuation and shares as well as opportunity cost. You only have so many dollars and all of these competing things to spend money on. Mark from Melbourne Australia
From my 11yo guppie to your 11yo guppie, she shares their unbearable pain due to the unfairness and hardships of life, which is something us dads will NEVER understand. Never ever. Wish i could sit on a screen for 6 hours and eat a ham and cheese sanga BBQ area came up well by the way :D
Love the story! But I was a little harder on mine and took every single electronic device and his phone off him and pulled the batteries out of everything and locked them away for a week, he got them back once he went outside and became human again :)
My guppies are now 23, 21, 20, 20, & 18.9 and CONTINUE facing a remarkably similar situation nearly every day Growing up has somehow become thsi insurmountable obstacle. Seems like nobody is really all that interested in doing it anymore. Everybody has legit mental health issues nowadays, and doing hard things outside of making it through another day just seems to be an impossible reach
thats a great share Chris; as kids today are very different in the order was whats important. he will get it for sure as he gets older, and you stay the male figure on his life. Good men raise good young men. picking your battles bro. I loved it. NOW GO FIND SOMORE!! 😂😂😂
100% with you on the homesteading thing, the idea of going out into the arse end of nowhere and turning it into something just ignites some sort of joyous dopamine thing in the brain
Lol this is my life with my nearly 8 year old too! - If I can get him out of the house into the mud he has a great time...but getting them off that screen is tough!
Prospecting is definitely easier then parenting that’s for sure lol. I have to take my daughters tablet every now and then to show her there is more to life then a screen in your face.
I have 3 son's, blah blah blah. Normal crap, gaming etc. I also gave them all the options, play X box or go riding dirt bikes! Bikes win, broken bones etc. But a very good time had, fast forward a bit. All 3 were warned at 17 & 1/2 years old, you have 6 months to get your shit in order, as you are moving out! Best thing ever, yes they had a choice, job, university, tafe and pay rent as well. They all had a car supplied or bike or both. 😅 happy for filled life, a trade each and a real perspective on just how hard it is to be an adult. Best thing is now they all are glad they learnt to stand on their own 2 feet. Sometimes Chris you have to be cruel to be kind. ❤it
That was my first son…put the bins out, but I’d have to move away from the PSX, I’may hurt my controller hand…I HATE YOU!! I’m leaving home! My second son loves working and helping around the house and gardens. He also maintains community garden beds. If I ask him if he wants to do something he has his steel caps on before I can finish the question, yes he already has his own steel caps and he’s still in high school. I swear I don’t have a favourite… 😉
Wow, Son #2 is going to go places with that enthusiasm! Get him to check out a trade with a licence, plumbing, electrical, air conditioning (hvac), and some business training.
Love it. Please do a share on the troll comments on this one, That last video of comments on your vids was hilarious. Hi from New Bern North Carolina love your stuff.
I mean ... I feel like I'm a guppy but I have medical conditions like eczema which makes any sort of physical labor absolute torture even my fishing is hard to do with the eczema but I still do it. Used to love working hard on a weekend with dad then sitting down for some Mario golf on the 64, even better if dad played. Good to see you've got him disciplined, get him out in the yard more then go have a game with him, it'll make both your weekends I'm sure of it. Another top video Chris.
My son is ten he has all the electronic dodads and whatnot. Same with my 8 year old daughter. Number one rule as parents kids need tasks . I make my kids work. I refuse to have a child who is going to be useless and need to live with me when they are grown. As my parents say having kids is free labour! Hell I was working with my dad since I was knee high to a duck. My fondest memory is doing drywall with my dad when I was 5 or working with my grandfather on the road equipment. That’s why when I was kicked out at 16 for partying way to much I had a job and money so I was able to provide for myself.
So guppies need screen time as a reward for eating tacos? I think I might just be a grumpy old man at this point, but I need tacos as a reward for doing my screen time 😂
Paint fence with water when dry do it again. Interesting fact my father started working at 11 years old in Ballarat delivering milk by horse and cart. Just think of those brisk Ballarat mornings before the sun came up.
Every time I spawned, all my tank mates ate the eggs, so no guppies for me. On a lighter note, my go to skillets are cast iron, one from grandmother, one from great grandmother. No aluminium Teflon stuff for me either. Screen addiction is a real thing, good dad dealing with that. 😁
w8 ... what.. you have a kid? we are not talking about the dog? years waiting for your uploads on UA-cam I never knew you had a kid. you get an A+ keeping your life private.
P.s. I i got lost at one point and thought you were talking about the turtle playing nintendo and this was some serious satire video. It took me another couple minutes to realize this wasn't a satire video and it was your 11 year old visitor you were referring to. Yeah. Good times.
Drag the guppie out into the bush and make him pan gold for his dinner and ice cream.....take the Switch away and hide it and tell him its in the gold he has to find....these game addicted kids are BIG TROUBLE when they end up finding out that they cant just play games all their lives and that there is something called WORK involved as well....
Oh man. It can’t get any better. Gold prospecting and parenting advice. My 13 son is the same way. Me: “Hey dinners getting cold” Him: “why are you yelling at me” Me: “cause I’ve been calling you to eat for 30mins”. Him: “what? Really.” Me: “give me your phone”.
I have 2 guppies who are in their mid 20's and late teens. Girl guppies are just as bad - in our case it was the TV (Netflix/Foxtel etc), playing MMORPG's and an allergy to doing homework. As I told them from the beginning.... "I have passed (insert year level), I don't need to do it again. I will explain the question to you but I will NOT give you the answer" I mean my parents never gave me the answer to any of my homework. They might point me in the direction of a book or library section that could help but it was up to me to do the work. Mind you my mum left school at the age of 14 in 1946 and dad was 17 in 1947 when he left so they wouldn't have been much help with my university physics classes....
You have to let them fall to learn how to get up. Without consequences to actions, wether its a 8 year old (in my case), 11 year old or an adult we all just don't seem to learn. We all just make the same old mistakes. Some of us learn and for some its a little harder.
My daughter when she was a teen threw a absolute whammy about me switching off the wifi for her mums birthday dinner one year, freaked right out threw her tablet at the tv, smashed both and stomped off to her bedroom and slammed the door, her mum and I were both former military, we looked at eachother and laughed then I breached the door with a solid kick and her mum went in with full Leading Seaman Verbal Faceripping ... Sounds like boys are easier... lol
Soooo glad I'm single, never married, and no guppies...damn they'd really hate me if I had any guppies, there'd be no gaming at all. Their enterainment would all be playing in the bush, out at the creek, or riding around on their pushbikes in the real world, just like us old farts grew up.😁👍🇦🇺
should have made him clean your super wide sluice mat . he wouldnt have thought to save the gold and buy a secret hidden nintendo switch with the profits... now that would be a funny story:)
Yea i know your pain haha Got my eldest a tv as he worked for it doing chores and so on, Well thats led to some excessive time spent watching tv, Oh the joys of parenting lol
We were allowed to play for one hour after dinner as long as mom didn't want to play haha. If she wanted to play or if she was cleaning we were kicked outside until dark
sprogs and sprockets are such a joy..... We have to remember we are here to teach them not to be their friends..... and if you dont get a I HATE YOU, every now and then you are not doing your job of raising them with the ability to handle the real world when they grow up and have to become useful remembers of our warped society.... Best of luck.... a wheelbarrow of rocks for his next desert or time on the switch..... lol .... yep my kids said I was a mean mum....
It's funny when they turn 18 and have their PC's in their rooms and think that they now control how much they play. Sorry kids, Gen X created computers and we had operation systems that didn't do everything for us. So we know how to make it look like something is broken in a way that you have no idea how to fix. Those that can fix a thing, control a thing.
This kid is dangerous. He is seeking a shrink every week. He lit a stack of boxes on fire with a lighter. Have to protect my kids from him. He has all of the serial killer warning signs.
Lock him up in the house so that if he starts a fire, he perishes in the flames. The realisation of the consequences of his actions will soon dawn on him.
As a father of a now adult guppy, I listened to your story and it made me smile. Way to go Dad! Sometimes the boys need to unplug from the electronics and get their hands dirty and maybe a little sweaty too. I love my video games too, but life is about balance and moderation. Thanks for the fun story.
Gadzee is only 11 years old?! But he looks so grown up in the videos....... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ageing disorder, very hush hush. Body ages but the humor sense stops maturing somewhere in the teens. Absolutely delightful as long as nobody tells Gadzee about it!
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I have a 47 year old guppy. As a little guppy he was always out side with friends riding his bike and whatever else. As a big guppy he sits on his computer from the time he gets up until whenever he goes to bed. Yes, he has a big guppy job. I can't take his computer away but I could really use some out of doors help in the garden. My 13 year old grand guppy is constantly plugged in too. I get the computer at all the odd hours (there's 2 computers in the house, one shared amongst 3 people), like after they go to bed. That's hardly enough time to watch all the Gold Prospecting videos of the 4 people I follow, and the jewellery making videos that give me inspiration.
As a single Dad, I get this from all 3 of My kids EVERY DAY of the week.
Had a very similar experience with my oldest guppy when he was 12.
He decided to volumize some select adult words towards me and his mother to which I replied by taking his PlayStation 3 outside and dumping an entire mag of incendiary 762 rounds into it at 20 yards, never had any bad words from him again and he never argued when we told him to turn the PlayStation 4 off after that.
It was an expensive lesson for both of us but the PS3 needed to go anyway ☺️ Country life is nice!
I guess that he figured out that PS3 taking a full 20 rounds of incendiary 7.62mm ammo, could just as easily have been his guppy carcase! 😂
I feel your pain bro. I have a 13 year old and all he wants to do is play his dam game. I swear technology is ruining our everything.
Parenting is easy. First you ruin their life and then embarrass them from then on!
In my fam we split it up... mum ruined their life and im just emberresing
embarrassing them is the good bit
I used to offer them for sale at the cash register at my local supermarket - they come complete with clothes and school uniforms! Never had any takers...
Now I enjoy embarrassing them but you learn to pick your times to do it.... like seeing them walking down the street with their newest boyfriend so I drive past with Midnight Oil playing really loud, windows down, toot the horn and wave with a big smile!
One BF got a bit mouthy so I told him how in my first job I worked in a lab where we did animal autopsies for zoos and research, but I had never had the chance to see a human one. I would then mention I still have all my knives and tools and ask if he wanted to be my test subject. I mean after doing an autopsy on a dead full grown elephant... gore is not a problem! I would then smile and watch them turn white. Some would ask my daughters later if I was joking and they would go "Nope... she stills has them and you should see how sharp some of them are!" Being a single mum isn't easy, especially when you are all of 5 foot 2 or 160 cm and you kid is dating someone almost a foot taller than you!
@@skwervin1 nicely done...I like midnight oil too...his stopping being a useful politician was a damn shame in my book...although more songs ....
@@skwervin1 I reckon that you have being a single Mum covered. Any boyfriend stupid enough to get mouthy with a Mum equipped with her own set of disection knives deserves to be your first human test cadaver. Just make sure to be preparing a meat dish for dinner so that they can see your knlfe skills in action!
That sounds like great fun! 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
That was funny. I don't have any kids but I got plenty of niece's and nephews!
That story reminds me of 2 of my nephews when they were younger. Now one is in college, and the other is a senior in high school.
Your story reminds me of so many memories from when they were little.
🤣😂🤣..oh I sooo needed that laugh. Thank you Chris!
I have three kids. Been right there with you many times. If we can’t find humor in the crazy way the kids act then we would go crazy right along with them.
Man, this is so reminiscent of my own guppy. Hours on the switch, then chore time comes and it’s complain city. Oh you want to complain? That’s a nice switch there. Be a shame if something were to…happen to it haha
To be said in a threatening Mafia style voice.
I ain't even a father yet.. just an oncle of 5, soon to be 6 "guppies", as you lovingly call 'em, and this gave me a good laugh. This is a good way to parent. Mr.Bogusis, prospector, youtuber and family man extraordinaire.
Love you man. Keep the good vids coming and living the good life :)
@ Spud Engeneering- Cris, cheers to your homestead! Ducks... Just an FYI incase you haven't had them before. THey are a pain in the a$$. Prone to inllness, need concstnt fresh water to bath in, noisy and though nice eggs and tasty meat, They Are A Pain!!!. I know a number of previous duck owners, myself included. Get chickens, if you want eggs and meat. Duck is amazingingly tasty but not easy to deal with. Cheers again. Having a home is a great thing.
I’ve nailed parenting. It’s called ‘getting a vasectomy before you have any kids’.
Works like a dream!
I thought the best part was when I would finally be able to read what you wrote under the brim of your hat!! Just that one random phrase!! 😆
Oh Chris, I’m so glad you’re getting to experience parenting properly, lol! After years and years of taking 3 kids to 3 different schools in the mornings, and coaching football and baseball in the evenings, I was ready to enjoy some ME time…I’m ashamed to say I really miss the chaos. But not to worry, I’m just a few years from the grandkids starting organized sports.
I have a love hate relationship with my kids and their tech. Some games I can see benefit in, sure. Sometimes we need to go in to zombie mode and disconnect from reality (like me now!). I do also know that our brain responds to it in different ways and gives us different hormones and does neurological things that we crave... so it can be a rabbit hole for sure.
There ain't no good/easy/bestest way to do this parenting thing other than doing our best and taking time to reflect on what we are doing... like your vid! Kicking ass daddyo, keep up the good work
‘Lo Bob! Homestead looks great, Chris! 🙂
Cheers to teaching the guppy! 🤣
betting on that guppy going to school and feeling proud of his hard work and feeling more sure of himself.. with switch in hand of course! we all need a support switch/phone lol
😂😂 love it My daughter 13 is the same life is sooo boring without a screen to stare at god forbid a conversation. Great Dading Chris
Well done Chris. It's easy to not see the problem until it's way way to late. Anytime you catch it is the right time. The balance is always different for every different moment and child. It's good to laugh and be relaxed about it all or we would be going down the hole too. Cheers and thanks for sharing.
No to the ducks, they smell real bad and not near the house, we had one duck and there was duck landmines everywhere and if you walked in one, dang that stuff was just beyond the smell of hell itself. Your choice though, good luck with the ducks, just call one Gadsy just for the hell of it "Gadsy the Duck" Quack Quack - Go forth and explore young Ducky Gadz
Keep it real Chris and Heavy Pans
Chris please explain this concept to my wife! Lol
She is into the belief that a child should never be disciplined. Hence the reason she lives with her parents. Because they are the same way and choose to enable bad behaviors! Keep up the great work brother!
Mashaaallah brother I had no idea you had a son may Allah make him a blessing to you and your family ameen
My guppy is nearly 19, just about to finish school. He got himself a casual job at the local hotel, so paying for him to do The Responsible Serving of Alcohol course last year at the school I work at has paid off. The funny thing is that no sooner had he started and got his first pay, then he was asking me if he should ask for more shifts so he could earn more money! 😂😂😂
I advised caution, to get used to school and work and by then Christmas will be coming up and they will want more hours from him. He lives with his Mum and half brother and he now rings me when he wants advice on stuff. He has quickly realised that earning money takes effort and he doesn't want to waste his money. We also had a discussion about superannuation and shares as well as opportunity cost. You only have so many dollars and all of these competing things to spend money on.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
Now I'm craving for Milo Ice Cream.... you have a lot to answer for Chris ! 🤣🤣🤣
From my 11yo guppie to your 11yo guppie, she shares their unbearable pain due to the unfairness and hardships of life, which is something us dads will NEVER understand.
Never ever.
Wish i could sit on a screen for 6 hours and eat a ham and cheese sanga
BBQ area came up well by the way :D
Love the story! But I was a little harder on mine and took every single electronic device and his phone off him and pulled the batteries out of everything and locked them away for a week, he got them back once he went outside and became human again :)
Doing it rite!! Thanks for sharing
my Gumby is almost 11 and same bored all the time unless we’re busy doing manual labor or breaking rocks!!
Quick, find yourself some crappy looking quartz and get the lad breaking rocks and you keep the gold! 😂😂😂
The joys of parenting, I would not trade them!
My guppies are now 23, 21, 20, 20, & 18.9 and CONTINUE facing a remarkably similar situation nearly every day
Growing up has somehow become thsi insurmountable obstacle. Seems like nobody is really all that interested in doing it anymore. Everybody has legit mental health issues nowadays, and doing hard things outside of making it through another day just seems to be an impossible reach
thats a great share Chris; as kids today are very different in the order was whats important. he will get it for sure as he gets older, and you stay the male figure on his life. Good men raise good young men. picking your battles bro. I loved it. NOW GO FIND SOMORE!! 😂😂😂
I agree! It is a funny story, and you should lighten up.😂
No electronics at the dinner table. We don't have a ton of rules,but that's a keeper.
100% with you on the homesteading thing, the idea of going out into the arse end of nowhere and turning it into something just ignites some sort of joyous dopamine thing in the brain
I have 4 trout sniffers..that's hilarious. 😂😂😂😂😂
Lol this is my life with my nearly 8 year old too! - If I can get him out of the house into the mud he has a great time...but getting them off that screen is tough!
Prospecting is definitely easier then parenting that’s for sure lol. I have to take my daughters tablet every now and then to show her there is more to life then a screen in your face.
If they haven’t yelled I HATE YOU you haven’t done your job 😂
I have 3 son's, blah blah blah. Normal crap, gaming etc. I also gave them all the options, play X box or go riding dirt bikes! Bikes win, broken bones etc. But a very good time had, fast forward a bit. All 3 were warned at 17 & 1/2 years old, you have 6 months to get your shit in order, as you are moving out! Best thing ever, yes they had a choice, job, university, tafe and pay rent as well. They all had a car supplied or bike or both. 😅 happy for filled life, a trade each and a real perspective on just how hard it is to be an adult. Best thing is now they all are glad they learnt to stand on their own 2 feet. Sometimes Chris you have to be cruel to be kind. ❤it
That was my first son…put the bins out, but I’d have to move away from the PSX, I’may hurt my controller hand…I HATE YOU!! I’m leaving home!
My second son loves working and helping around the house and gardens. He also maintains community garden beds. If I ask him if he wants to do something he has his steel caps on before I can finish the question, yes he already has his own steel caps and he’s still in high school. I swear I don’t have a favourite… 😉
Wow, Son #2 is going to go places with that enthusiasm! Get him to check out a trade with a licence, plumbing, electrical, air conditioning (hvac), and some business training.
Love it. Please do a share on the troll comments on this one, That last video of comments on your vids was hilarious. Hi from New Bern North Carolina love your stuff.
I mean ... I feel like I'm a guppy but I have medical conditions like eczema which makes any sort of physical labor absolute torture even my fishing is hard to do with the eczema but I still do it. Used to love working hard on a weekend with dad then sitting down for some Mario golf on the 64, even better if dad played. Good to see you've got him disciplined, get him out in the yard more then go have a game with him, it'll make both your weekends I'm sure of it. Another top video Chris.
My son is ten he has all the electronic dodads and whatnot. Same with my 8 year old daughter. Number one rule as parents kids need tasks . I make my kids work. I refuse to have a child who is going to be useless and need to live with me when they are grown. As my parents say having kids is free labour! Hell I was working with my dad since I was knee high to a duck. My fondest memory is doing drywall with my dad when I was 5 or working with my grandfather on the road equipment. That’s why when I was kicked out at 16 for partying way to much I had a job and money so I was able to provide for myself.
Funny as hell, every parent has gone down that road.😅
Had a similar situation with 7yr old mini-me. Parenting is fun 😂
11 year old Guppy!! 😂😂😂... LMAO... I RESIDE WITH ONE ALSO... BAHAHHA 🙌 GOLD!
Great work mate it’s hard work bringing up kids
So guppies need screen time as a reward for eating tacos? I think I might just be a grumpy old man at this point, but I need tacos as a reward for doing my screen time 😂
Paint fence with water when dry do it again. Interesting fact my father started working at 11 years old in Ballarat delivering milk by horse and cart. Just think of those brisk Ballarat mornings before the sun came up.
Way different than the 1970s childhood, a big non-promise of some possible non-cable TV.....back when a good book was truly a step up, lol!!!
That's a good story about 11-year-old guppies.
I know your pain. It is very real and very present!
My respect and admiration for you just doubled.
Every time I spawned, all my tank mates ate the eggs, so no guppies for me. On a lighter note, my go to skillets are cast iron, one from grandmother, one from great grandmother. No aluminium Teflon stuff for me either. Screen addiction is a real thing, good dad dealing with that. 😁
w8 ... what.. you have a kid? we are not talking about the dog? years waiting for your uploads on UA-cam I never knew you had a kid. you get an A+ keeping your life private.
I was stuck with trading time in my dad's shop for screen time to limit my time screwing around.(I got paid as well)
P.s. I i got lost at one point and thought you were talking about the turtle playing nintendo and this was some serious satire video. It took me another couple minutes to realize this wasn't a satire video and it was your 11 year old visitor you were referring to. Yeah. Good times.
I can so relate to all of that. Dealing with a 13 year old guppy with serious game addiction.
Drag the guppie out into the bush and make him pan gold for his dinner and ice cream.....take the Switch away and hide it and tell him its in the gold he has to find....these game addicted kids are BIG TROUBLE when they end up finding out that they cant just play games all their lives and that there is something called WORK involved as well....
Now that's GOLD!
Oh man. It can’t get any better. Gold prospecting and parenting advice. My 13 son is the same way. Me: “Hey dinners getting cold” Him: “why are you yelling at me” Me: “cause I’ve been calling you to eat for 30mins”. Him: “what? Really.” Me: “give me your phone”.
Maybe he was upset because the icecream gave him a headache this time instead of too much Nintendo😁
Good on you, Chris.
All I can say is ..... "Good Luck, your in stage 5".
I have 2 guppies who are in their mid 20's and late teens. Girl guppies are just as bad - in our case it was the TV (Netflix/Foxtel etc), playing MMORPG's and an allergy to doing homework.
As I told them from the beginning.... "I have passed (insert year level), I don't need to do it again. I will explain the question to you but I will NOT give you the answer" I mean my parents never gave me the answer to any of my homework. They might point me in the direction of a book or library section that could help but it was up to me to do the work. Mind you my mum left school at the age of 14 in 1946 and dad was 17 in 1947 when he left so they wouldn't have been much help with my university physics classes....
I'm like 100. Do you use your turtle as a call phone ever? All the best from Vancouver Island.
Hey Chris, fyi.....you might wanna switch you ps5 to horizontal as the liquid metal on the motherboard melts and will run off 👍
You have to let them fall to learn how to get up. Without consequences to actions, wether its a 8 year old (in my case), 11 year old or an adult we all just don't seem to learn. We all just make the same old mistakes. Some of us learn and for some its a little harder.
my parents would of taken that thing n spiked it into the ground. Then said if u want another one you will have to work for it.
Do more about your guppie clips so funny
Bwahahahahahahaa that is hilarious Chris I like how you use the word guppy like Con the Fruiterer did years ago lol
He was talking about his daughter Agupy!
@@markfryer9880 Perhaps I should of made myself more explainable whilst I was laughing and responding to Chris.
@@rodneymiddleton1044 Did I miss the joke again?
Change it to watching ninjagos and an ice cream sandwich and you described my 7 year old last night
Said every dad of a 11 yr old ever, kinda wish I was a tuber to pull his head in. 😊
My daughter when she was a teen threw a absolute whammy about me switching off the wifi for her mums birthday dinner one year, freaked right out threw her tablet at the tv, smashed both and stomped off to her bedroom and slammed the door, her mum and I were both former military, we looked at eachother and laughed then I breached the door with a solid kick and her mum went in with full Leading Seaman Verbal Faceripping ...
Sounds like boys are easier... lol
Soooo glad I'm single, never married, and no guppies...damn they'd really hate me if I had any guppies, there'd be no gaming at all.
Their enterainment would all be playing in the bush, out at the creek, or riding around on their pushbikes in the real world, just like us old farts grew up.😁👍🇦🇺
should have made him clean your super wide sluice mat . he wouldnt have thought to save the gold and buy a secret hidden nintendo switch with the profits... now that would be a funny story:)
Yeah! Chill dude.
I loved it it was e super real story 😂🎉
there was no internet when i was 12. Minic miner or Invaders on a ZX Spectrum, but i choose outdoor and my favorite was the woods. 🍪
Yep havent used teflon for years. Cast iron is the go.
Yea i know your pain haha Got my eldest a tv as he worked for it doing chores and so on, Well thats led to some excessive time spent watching tv, Oh the joys of parenting lol
If you think 11 is bad, wait until your guppy is 16! Aargh!😩🥴
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 yep that's how it is most of the time
We were allowed to play for one hour after dinner as long as mom didn't want to play haha. If she wanted to play or if she was cleaning we were kicked outside until dark
Moving rocks in the hot sun,I fought vogus and vogus won
sprogs and sprockets are such a joy..... We have to remember we are here to teach them not to be their friends..... and if you dont get a I HATE YOU, every now and then you are not doing your job of raising them with the ability to handle the real world when they grow up and have to become useful remembers of our warped society.... Best of luck.... a wheelbarrow of rocks for his next desert or time on the switch..... lol .... yep my kids said I was a mean mum....
If you are not accused of being mean then you aren't doing things right.
Nothing a long 2x4 wouldn't fix !!!
Hello sunshine.put some shrimp on the barbie. Much love always
Milo icecream ,a glimse of Chloe ,i might just rub one out now.
🤣Classic.
It's funny when they turn 18 and have their PC's in their rooms and think that they now control how much they play. Sorry kids, Gen X created computers and we had operation systems that didn't do everything for us. So we know how to make it look like something is broken in a way that you have no idea how to fix. Those that can fix a thing, control a thing.
never fear ,,they get worse
(American English speakers) Wait, how did the fish play the game?
Step kid got grounded off electronics. Soooo, he tried to burn the house down. Needless to say, he isn't welcomed back. He too is 11.
😬😳 really? As in, with intent?? If so, hope he got a sponsored vacation at mental health....
This kid is dangerous. He is seeking a shrink every week. He lit a stack of boxes on fire with a lighter. Have to protect my kids from him. He has all of the serial killer warning signs.
Lock him up in the house so that if he starts a fire, he perishes in the flames.
The realisation of the consequences of his actions will soon dawn on him.
LOL, that was awesome!
love it
nintendo parental controls are the s#it. you can turn the switch off from your phone any time you like
Sounds about right for 11 year old boys. 😂 I have twin 11 year old boys!
Ham and cheese sandwich, the world wide yummy sandwich. 😊😊