Sounds lovely Pol, we literally did the same this morning. Kids were jumping in leaves and the were finding the crunchy one, we collected loads of conkers ready to paint and do an activity with tomorrow... They were having stick fights and just constant GENUINE laughing which is normal and everyday in our house (yes that's a dig at you Sophie)I’ve been for a walk in the woods this afternoon with my kids and the dog (a healthy-weight Spaniel, just saying).
Dog had the best time, teenager was surgically removed from a screen and got fresh air, and JustTurned3 found so many conkers to bring home he was about to explode with excitement.
I took loads of pictures today, because I want to have them for the kids to look back on in the future, and I like to look at them when I’m having a tit MH day to remind me that good days do happen.
But those pictures weren’t staged. They weren’t a case of ‘stand there and look at me while I take this’. They were in the moment, gorgeous snapshots of love between my boys. Oh and some blurry ones of the dog who only knows fast and faster
Why don’t Soph and Jamie ever do these normal childhood things with their kids?
Does Ron even know the absolute joy of crunching in leaves? Of scouring the ground for the biggest and shiniest conkers and putting them in a bag to bring home? Of being allowed to just run and laugh and be a child?
For people who share their whole lives with strangers (and bots and weirdos), they never show any ‘real life’. It can’t possibly ever happen, can it? If it did it would surely be shown?
That’s what their kids will grow up knowing - that their only purpose was for content. Every single day they are props. They don’t have a childhood filled with curiosity leading to natural experiences, because they are required to fit what their parents want the narrative to be.
Soph and Jamie are not child people, that’s clear, but it’s those gorgeous boys who will miss out and it’s Soph and Jamie who will live to regret it when they kids are old enough to understand.
(Sorry this turned into a rant…)
The most simplest of days turn out to be the best don't they???
We're home now, showers done, grubby hands all clean with a takeaway on the way!!!
It makes me very sad that ronnie 100% doesn't experience those genuine family days.