Very proud dad thread

Feels like finally winning the battle with toilet training with Sophia. Have had a few failed attempts over the last 6 months or so, but she just refused to sit on the toilet/potty even though she tells us when doing a wee/poo and then demands her nappy be changed, so we haven’t pushed it.

With a good few days at home over the break we decided to take on the challenge again and hopefully have a breakthrough, which I think we have done. 4 days now with no nappies and no accidents since day 1. Hopefully by the time she’s back at nursery she will have it pretty much nailed.
 
Proud of my youngest over past (well she always very good)

Potty training started yesterday, she smashed it. One accident on day one and one day two

We also just went hospital for her eye check up and she was so good. Even held her wee there
 
Proud Grandad thread.
Took Layla Tash for her Martial arts grading tonight. She smashed it. Fitness, routines, stamina and sparring. She took some real smacks in the mouth and the other three that were graded were going for the belt above. She did there grading and just missed out on a double grading. She has her belt and two notches. On it. Not to mention she did a run in Sherwood pines on Thursday with 700 other kids. She came 16th. She is 8. She has her Nannas lungs 😉
 

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Proud Dad, my eldest struggled with education throughout primary school because of his ADHD, and was failing miserably in Secondary school. We pulled him out of the state system and found a school that specialises in managing kids with autism and learning difficulties.

At the start of the year he said he wanted to apply for Head of House and today he got awarded the role and is Deputy Head Boy.
 
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Proud of these two today. Graduation at pre school. They did amazing bless em.



Onto big school next year, they had 2 choices of teacher (eldests reception teacher who's lovely and eldests current teacher who is my wife's drinking buddy) so we found today they have the drinking buddy which will really help one of the girls who struggles with change a bit more than the other. Seeing her a lot picking up big sister and going into her class to get used to school.



Proud dad for sure
 
Went to grandsproggs awards ceremony for Skool on Monday. We had been told that one of them had an award to pick up. Turns out it was Layla Tash for Eco committee member of the year due to a speech she did on “ Earth day”. Grandad Tash tipped her the wink on that one 😉
Later that evening she got her “ 4th tip” on her mixed martial arts belt so she moves up to Blue I think it is. She is 8 yr old. Tucked her in bed Monday night and she said “ Ave had a good day ant ah Grandad”. “Indeed you have me duck, indeed you have”.
She was still wide awake with excitement when I checked on her at 11.30 pm.
 
So I pick Layla Tash up on Wednesday from skool.
“ how’s today gone” I said.
“ absolutely mint grandad, best day ever, we have done no writing or numbers” she said.
“So what you been doing then” I asked.
“ Ave been cooking all day making a salad and it was gorgeous “ she said. She was proper chuffed with herself.
So we are sat down for tea and I said. “ oi Layla tell nana Tash what you been up to at skool today”.
She beams and says “ Nanna Ave been cooking salad all day and I have also learned some new words”. I looked up at her and said “ what new words coz you never told me that”
She then looked around the table as we were out side on the patio and quietly said “Penis, vagina and pubic hair”.
I Said “what kind of a flippin cookery class was that”. She said Grandad “ thats not the cookery class, we have been learning about how baby’s are made and things like that”.
Young Bradley Tash who is 12 years old was giggling like a well school boy.
Kids 😖
 
HampshireHog said:
Proud Dad, my eldest struggled with education throughout primary school because of his ADHD, and was failing miserably in Secondary school. We pulled him out of the state system and found a school that specialises in managing kids with autism and learning difficulties.

At the start of the year he said he wanted to apply for Head of House and today he got awarded the role and is Deputy Head Boy.
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Final school prize giving for my lad today. He gave a lovely short speech in front of 600+ people didn’t come across as nervous at all.

Roger Black guest speaker, very good, nice bloke.
 
My lad has been in a turbulent controlled relationship for 11 yrs. Three weeks ago whilst staying at her mum's she text-dumped him. He has been utterly gutted - and has tried to see if it is possible to patch things up - to no avail. It's been very difficult for him but me and his mum have been available for him - shoulders to cry on (though he hasn't done any of that with us) and to unload his upset and confusion.

But over the last couple of days we can hear that he's working his way through this; getting his head around it, and making the right decisions that are required to close things off. She's still acting the victim, claiming in everything he says that he's try to 'guilt shame' her. He's not. He now just wants to make sure that things are well and truly over; that everything is done and dusted and she gets all her stuff out of the house - and is relieved that the umbilical cord between her and his money (she's lived off him for most of these 11 yrs) is well and truly cut.

It is still early days but we are so proud of him as he gathers himself and his thoughts.🙏
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
My lad has been in a turbulent controlled relationship for 11 yrs. Three weeks ago whilst staying at her mum's she text-dumped him. He has been utterly gutted - and has tried to see if it is possible to patch things up - to no avail. It's been very difficult for him but me and his mum have been available for him - shoulders to cry on (though he hasn't done any of that with us) and to unload his upset and confusion.

But over the last couple of days we can hear that he's working his way through this; getting his head around it, and making the right decisions that are required to close things off. She's still acting the victim, claiming in everything he says that he's try to 'guilt shame' her. He's not. He now just wants to make sure that things are well and truly over; that everything is done and dusted and she gets all her stuff out of the house - and is relieved that the umbilical cord between her and his money (she's lived off him for most of these 11 yrs) is well and truly cut.

It is still early days but we are so proud of him as he gathers himself and his thoughts.🙏
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When I walked my daughter down the aisle. I looked her in the eye and told her it was the proudest moment of my life. 2 years later I knew things were not going well. I had already told her future hubby if he didn't sort his crap out the wedding would not go ahead.
She came round to our house one day and said I know this will come As a shock but me and my Hubby are splitting up. missis T said “‘it is a shock to me but not to your dad. He knew months ago”. I looked her in the eye and said. “ I told you two years ago that this is the proudest day of my life,
It’s not. Today is the proudest day of my life”.
He was a controlling coercive dickhead. He still is. We have had the kids 17 days this month about 14 nights. He has had them 6 days. Daughter’s partner said he would be able to have the kids for 3 days ( shift change ) otherwise it would have been 20 days. We still Don’t know when he wants his kids in April. He won’t have them Monday or Wednesday because he would have to take them swimming where his son mentors a kid with autism. Weds is mixed martial arts. Again he won’t take them. My daughter has worked out he is a selfish sod. But we are very careful what we say in front of the kids. Our daughter like Your son had to work it out themselves. No matter what we said. She worked it out herself. 10 years we have helped to look after his kids. Our daughter is eternally grateful. The month she left him. She started her firearms training. On her first day she was pulled to one side and told
“ If we had been made aware of your situation before the course had started we would not of let you start as your head is a mess”. She asked if she could speak freely. She could. She told them “ In that classroom of tit tattling coppers you have two cross shagging coppers who have skeletons in there cupboard. You knew exactly what my ex was like as you trained him. For the first time in My life my head is clear”. She became the first firearms female copper in South yorks. She is now a
Sarge. Since she has left him She has gone from Strength to strength with the support of her parents. Your son hopefully in the not to distance future will think “ Why did I put up with that crap for so long”
Good luck me man
 
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Tashyboy said:
When I walked my daughter down the aisle. I looked her in the eye and told her it was the proudest moment of my life. 2 years later I knew things were not going well. I had already told her future hubby if he didn't sort his crap out the wedding would not go ahead.
She came round to our house one day and said I know this will come As a shock but me and my Hubby are splitting up. missis T said “‘it is a shock to me but not to your dad. He knew months ago”. I looked her in the eye and said. “ I told you two years ago that this is the proudest day of my life,
It’s not. Today is the proudest day of my life”.
He was a controlling coercive dickhead. He still is. We have had the kids 17 days this month about 14 nights. He has had them 6 days. Daughter’s partner said he would be able to have the kids for 3 days ( shift change ) otherwise it would have been 20 days. We still Don’t know when he wants his kids in April. He won’t have them Monday or Wednesday because he would have to take them swimming where his son mentors a kid with autism. Weds is mixed martial arts. Again he won’t take them. My daughter has worked out he is a selfish sod. But we are very careful what we say in front of the kids. Our daughter like Your son had to work it out themselves. No matter what we said. She worked it out herself. 10 years we have helped to look after his kids. Our daughter is eternally grateful. The month she left him. She started her firearms training. On her first day she was pulled to one side and told
“ If we had been made aware of your situation before the course had started we would not of let you start as your head is a mess”. She asked if she could speak freely. She could. She told them “ In that classroom of tit tattling coppers you have two cross shagging coppers who have skeletons in there cupboard. You knew exactly what my ex was like as you trained him. For the first time in My life my head is clear”. She became the first firearms female copper in South yorks. She is now a
Sarge. Since she has left him
She has gone from Strength to strength with the support of her parents. Your son hopefully in the not to distance future will think “ Why did I put up with that crap for so long”
Good luck me man
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Thankyou so much for your words.

We told our lad ten years ago that she was toxic…bad news…but though he knew she had issues he wanted to stick with her - give her time to change…to grow up. In time she became totally dependent on him and he knew it. So even though he thought about knocking it on the head he was concerned for her that she had nowhere to go…no one to go to. And she knew that...and so became terribly controlling and manipulative.

We stopped telling him what he knew himself a couple of years back… but as I have said to him over the last three weeks - join the dots…what picture do you see? He sees the picture a lot clearer now - we hope and pray.
 
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