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My father has a extreemly high IQ and his favorite hobby is learning something new. He is 77 years old and he still attends college classes at our state college

by baldfat 11y ago

My father has a extreemly high IQ and his favorite hobby is learning something new. He is 77 years old and he still attends college classes at our state college (Free for anyone over 65). He took all 5 of his kids to a museum at least once a month. We would drive 3 or 4 hours and then get there when it opened and more than likely be there when it closed. The number one person my dad would talk with was the security people. His thought was they had no real knowledge of the subject and had to work through all the steps so they can explain it better. He was right.

RankingMember 11y ago
Maybe it was by virtue of you being his offspring that you could tolerate that, but I can tell you that if I were his kid he'd have been dealing with a seriously exasperated/cranky kid and would've started leaving me at home for his all-day museum visits. Even now, the idea of spending an entire day at a museum makes my brain's gag reflex fire. Even for cool subjects that naturally interest me (history, engineering), there's only so long I can mill around staring at things in a receptive state before my brain says "ENOUGH".
- baldfat 11y ago
  Well to be honest all 5 of use would NEVER complain. We would leave restaurants and the people would say, "Oh your children are the best behaved children I ever seen." We would say later on to ourselves, "They didn't know what our father would threaten us with." He is a loving father but he would make it SO NOT WORTH IT to complain or misbehave. My children love to learn and don't complain but I don't threaten them :) I think if you raise them to love what you do (For me it is learning, music and food) they grow liking the same things. My 9 year old at Disney World ordered the non-kid friendly Cheese Plate and the waiter sent out a second kid friendly appetizer just to be safe. He later asked her what her favorite thing she ate at Disney (Last night of 5 day stay) and she said the cheese plate.
  - jimbokun 11y ago
    The WORST part of my family's Disney experience was how the meal plan required my younger son to order from the children's menu. My one son was 11, and the other 9. The way the Disney meal plan works, 9 year-olds and under MUST order from the child menu. We kept dragging our kids back to Epcot to eat at the various nationality specific restaurants. Me, my wife, and older son would get a menu with lots of interesting choices, my younger son got to pick from chicken fingers or one other vaguely ethnic dish. He really hated being discriminated against in this way. The one server who really understood the problem was at Epcot's Italian restaurant. We ordered various things, including one item from the children's menu, but our waitress just served everything communally, with no mention of what was the "child" item. Sorry to vent, but you just triggered a painful parenting memory. :)
    - baldfat 11y ago
      We ran into the same thing, but my 9 year old got adults meals half the time by us just asking. Also they feed enough for 1.5 people easily so my wife and I would give her part of our own meals. I went on a Make a Wish trip with my son when he was 9 and he got the adult meal 100% of the time. Disney is awesome with Make a Wish kids.

by baldfat 11y ago

RankingMember 11y ago

Maybe it was by virtue of you being his offspring that you could tolerate that, but I can tell you that if I were his kid he'd have been dealing with a seriously exasperated/cranky kid and would've started leaving me at home for his all-day museum visits. Even now, the idea of spending an entire day at a museum makes my brain's gag reflex fire. Even for cool subjects that naturally interest me (history, engineering), there's only so long I can mill around staring at things in a receptive state before my brain says "ENOUGH".

baldfat 11y ago
Well to be honest all 5 of use would NEVER complain. We would leave restaurants and the people would say, "Oh your children are the best behaved children I ever seen." We would say later on to ourselves, "They didn't know what our father would threaten us with." He is a loving father but he would make it SO NOT WORTH IT to complain or misbehave. My children love to learn and don't complain but I don't threaten them :) I think if you raise them to love what you do (For me it is learning, music and food) they grow liking the same things. My 9 year old at Disney World ordered the non-kid friendly Cheese Plate and the waiter sent out a second kid friendly appetizer just to be safe. He later asked her what her favorite thing she ate at Disney (Last night of 5 day stay) and she said the cheese plate.
- jimbokun 11y ago
  The WORST part of my family's Disney experience was how the meal plan required my younger son to order from the children's menu. My one son was 11, and the other 9. The way the Disney meal plan works, 9 year-olds and under MUST order from the child menu. We kept dragging our kids back to Epcot to eat at the various nationality specific restaurants. Me, my wife, and older son would get a menu with lots of interesting choices, my younger son got to pick from chicken fingers or one other vaguely ethnic dish. He really hated being discriminated against in this way. The one server who really understood the problem was at Epcot's Italian restaurant. We ordered various things, including one item from the children's menu, but our waitress just served everything communally, with no mention of what was the "child" item. Sorry to vent, but you just triggered a painful parenting memory. :)
  - baldfat 11y ago
    We ran into the same thing, but my 9 year old got adults meals half the time by us just asking. Also they feed enough for 1.5 people easily so my wife and I would give her part of our own meals. I went on a Make a Wish trip with my son when he was 9 and he got the adult meal 100% of the time. Disney is awesome with Make a Wish kids.