This dad is a little confused about why his 14-year-old son isn’t getting along with him, but the answer is clear to the people answering his question!
When you’re a teenager, it’s natural to disagree with your parents on, well, almost everything. You’re learning about the world while growing from a kid into a very young adult. If parents are able to do fun activities with their teen that the teen actually enjoys, they should lean into it! Too bad that’s the opposite of what this dad is doing. All his son wants to do is carry on a tradition that he used to do with his late mom, who passed when he was 12. He loved going to the British Museum in London, which Dad describes as both his “favorite place in the world” and the center of an ongoing passion project he had with his mother. This passion project sounds so cool — the teen and his Mom would sketch out different things they saw in the museum, recreating them together. It’s an activity that could inspire a love of art, a deeper understanding of the world around him, and an appreciation for history (and not to mention that it was a tradition he kept up with his mom, which is probably the key element here for that 14-year-old).
Dad doesn’t see it that way at all, and commenters ripped him a new one for the way he treated his son. Oh, and he provided an update, which is almost as infuriating as the original post he shared. He’s really letting his new wife run the show, and commenters were quick to express surprise at how quickly he’d remarried, even deciding to have another child with her, all within a couple years of his wife’s passing!
While obviously no one can predict the future, numerous commenters warned that this kid is going to go no-contact with Dad as soon as he can, and who could blame him? I hope he surrounds himself with friends who want to continue on with he and his Mom’s legacy project, as well as just people who listen to him and respect his wishes.
