How can you best discourage your kids success?

Tax the rich...again?  I've posted before that I think this type of thinking is just hateful, pure and simple.  It's most basic element is that those who wish to tax the rich want to take from someone else for their own selfish reasons.  Enough said.

Apply the same screwed up hateful tax the rich logic to kids and what do you have?  Well yes more hate directed at kids.  Technically tax the rich hate speech is already directed at kids, since I'm sure some rich people have kids.  I have not seen any scientific data to confirm this, but I'm pretty sure some rich people have kids.  I digress.

Taxing the rich is punishing success.  So if we were to teach the next generation this type of gloriously screwed up way of thinking what are some ways to do this.  As I've posted before we could take away points from their grades and give the points to kids who are failing a particular subject.  That's bound to teach kids to study and work hard, oops I meant that will discourage them from trying.   I won't go on with this crap.

All you tax the rich haters out there; what are some ways you recommend discouraging/punishing/taxing kids?

How can you best discourage your kids success?

Ride a horse (pony)!

Find a horse or pony and have a great time!

As always, the perfect day starts with a KINGDADS breakfast!

Ride a horse (pony)!

Nothing exposes your kids to culture like a monster truck show!

Buy your tickets early to get great seats without spending a fortune. Take earplugs and LOTS of earplugs, holy cow are those shows loud.

My son loved it and we were only a couple of rows back, but my daughter just couldn’t sit still. Always a catch 22, my daughter didn’t want to be left out and at the same time she was just too young to sit still. Regardless we had a great time and beat the crowds leaving.

Nothing exposes your kids to culture like a monster truck show!

Nothing says family time like blowing something up!

Here’s a simple one: Build a volcano!

1 bag potting soil

1 box baking soda

1 bottle of white distilled vinegar

Red food coloring (optional)

I’ll let you figure out how to put it together. Have fun!

Nothing says family time like blowing something up!

Go feed the ducks and/or ride a train

I don’t know what the best use of time is with kids. I also don’t think the best use of time applies when it comes to kids. I do know that when the weekend hits, the hectic pace of the week should and needs to come to an end. Here is an idea for a Saturday: Go feed the ducks and/or ride a train.

The laughter from my kids amazes me each and every time we go and feed the ducks. We have been going to feed the ducks since my children were born, but it hasn’t lost any of its shear entertainment value. Then add in a train ride following feeding the ducks and you’re now in the midst of one of the greatest days in parenting.

Don’t forget that you need to start your day off right with KINGDADS breakfast.

Go feed the ducks and/or ride a train

KINGDADS breakfast

KINGDADS breakfast started in Lakeway Texas by joining my first love of being a father and one of my other’s. Breakfast!

A good bud of mine who I’ll call Mikey, until I get his permission to use his real name, shares this same passion. Plus, Mikey makes great Mickey Mouse pancakes which I’ll discuss at another time. We started meeting with our kids at various locations around town from Lakeway’s Café Lago, to IHOP. (Full Disclosure- I have no affiliation with IHOP) I’m a huge fan of IHOP and the smiley face pancakes, actually I’m lying because I really don’t like the smiley face pancakes, but my kids do and that’s good enough for me. After talking with some other bud’s who wanted to join in for breakfast I quickly realized it would be easier to use evite.com to coordinate breakfast. It seemed like overnight we went from 2 dad’s to 8 dad’s plus all the kids. Had I not moved to Houston recently and discontinued the KINGDAD’s breakfast in Austin I am confident we would have easily added enough father’s to fill up Auditorium shores on Town Lake in Austin. I had a great time and the kids had even more fun. In this I noticed the difference’s in the make up of the father’s in the group. I’ll call them all great father’s, but I quickly noticed the varying levels of comfort these dad’s had interacting with their and all the kids. The commonality between the dad’s was simple: all wanted to be a great father. Some just don’t know how. I’m not saying that any of them were bad father’s, but the comfort factor was not present in them. I’ll speak more to this lack of comfort in the future. Showing up and spending time with your kids is the first step and I propose KINGDADS for you.

I encourage you for one Saturday a month to take your kids, call a bud with kids, and head for your local IHOP. Enjoy and join today. KINGDADS breakfast!

KINGDADS breakfast