None of that is “childish”.
You go to work like an adult, come home and:
Play an M rated video game Watch an adult oriented animated show/film, Watch YouTube video that reached about some complex topic that you have an interest in (science, history, etc) or a video of someone playing those aforementioned M rated games.
Live your life, have fun with it.
If by grown stuff you mean work, taxes, chores… You can do whatever you want afterwards, you earned it.
That’s what grown up stuff is, responsibilities.
The only thing that’s childish is thinking your age means you have to stop doing the things you enjoy. I’m in my late 30’s and you’re basically describing my weekends. Well, the ones I actually have free that is. Sadly, responsibilities eat into that more and more the older you get. All the more reason to actually enjoy your free time when you have it
You can still do all the fun stuff after work. Weekends exist too you know.
They already said they play video games, watch cartoons, youtube, & learn useless facts in their free time.
Im at the point in my life where my children consume all of that. I get time after everyone in my house is asleep. Thankfully I function on 6.5 hours of sleep, so i can get some time
If you can function adequately on 5, there is another 1.5 hours of gaming time available.
Just kidding. Get the sleep you need so your brain will function well for longer and you can get those missed hours of fun back when your kids don’t require all your attention.
I don’t know how old your kids are, but I have my 8 year old playing Final Fantasy with me, and I’m playing Minecraft Dungeons with him. Video games and movies are slowly ratcheting up to “entertaining for adults” levels
Oh im totally here for all that. Id love to play more video games with my kids. Thats mostly their mom’s choice that they enroll in musical theatre/tennis/tap dance/etc. and theres minimal unstructured time
They regularly ask if they can just stay home and play Lets Go Eevee or Mario Kart with me.
Yeah my son gets one extracurricular at a time. It’s too much for kids to fill their schedules like that. They need unstructured time and boredom
Mines for multiple children, so when ones at event, the other parent is on full kid duty. I agree and I support bored kids
I thought weekends were the fum stuff after work
Who said you can’t spend a few hours gaming during weekdays. Traditionally, people have spent those hours watching low quality trash on TV. Shooting space bugs with rockets and flame throwers is a lot more fun IMO.
It’s also way better for your brain. Just don’t forget to take care of the body too.
Time enjoyed is not time wasted.
I am mid 40s and still do all that fun stuff. One thing worth learning as you get older, who gives a shit what others do or what their opinion of you is. If they want to be a boring stick in the mud, crabbing at everything, probably also a miserable alcoholic, let them. Play your games, buy dumb shit, enjoy what you want.
Lots of wasted time on things people don’t enjoy and I’m talking things like video games. Make sure you actually enjoy them and aren’t just doing it because your friends are/that’s what you’ve always done.
NOOOO WORK AND OBLIGATIONS IS WHAT DEFINES THE MEANING OF LIFE!
Still happening to me at 52 years old. Fuck growing up.
I live how, when my wife has to leave the city for a day or more, my kid’s reaction is, invariably, “yeah! There won’t be any adults in the house.” 🤣
They’re busy cheering for grown folks playing different kids games, or playing less intense/more popular games like Farmville, Modern Warfare, GTA5, or whatev. They aren’t getting their giggles from cartoons but from Modern Family or Young Sheldon. They are 100% doomscrolling.
Biggest difference is social acceptability.
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Those damn kids on their Nintendos! They should be enjoying proper content like the intellectual cartoons I enjoy, 10 hour video essays, and browsing Lemmy!
I just do all that after I do the grown up stuff I have to do
You sound like some kind of modern human being that exists on earth
its not really free. your mortgaging your future unless youre retired already in which case it actually is free time
I feel this in my soul. I’m an adult in that I pay rent, feed my kid, etc. but I’m also overly traumatized by the world around me so I retreated into the same things that made me happy as a kid. Also, my brain is wholly convinced I’m 12 not 36.
There are no useless facts. Only growing knowledge. You are a full time student for the rest of your life.
I do this that and the other. All the things
Viewing things you enjoy as something you’re not allowed to do because you are an adult is easily the most childish thing you can do. Don’t live your life as though you are an animal trained to perform for others.
goddamn right.
good luck with your kid though. guess climate change is their problem now.
I don’t think these are opposed concepts.
