Dadnamics Live! 300-Word Takeaway
In our area, we have a chain of stores that triples as a gas station, convenience store, and ice cream shop. Perfect right? In full disclosure, I stop there quite often… for gas, obviously.
On such a day, I brought my daughter along for errands. I recommend this BIG TIME! Why not? There may be opportunities to infuse creativity, adventure, and silliness.
That’s exactly what happened on this particular day. The last errand was the gas station (you know what that means). After filling up, we moseyed inside to the ice cream counter and ordered two double cones. I got Mint Chocolate Chip. I always do. My 8-year-old ordered this colorful fruity loopy thing and we found a bench.
The first few minutes were intense as we had to work the cones down to a manageable size. It was a great teachable moment in fatherhood because one of her licks ejected a ball of blue ice cream onto my leg! And that wasn’t all. Her lovely white sweater now had blue splatter on it. We looked like a couple of Smurfs.
FLASHBACK! I took her for ice cream when she was 5 and we made faces in our ice creams and did a ice cream head puppet show. It was ridiculous, but she remembered it in perfect detail, 3 years later. And better yet, her memory is always accompanied by a big smile. This is proof that Dadnamics works. I couldn’t find that picture. YET! But here’s another from the same year.
Now that we were both blue and we had salvaged her cone, it was time for a repeat. This video is NOT REHEARSED, I promise. It is raw footage. I’m actually this strange. But my daughter loves it. She remembers it.
And so will your kids.
