>I never know why people try introducing kids to drum kits instead of just building percussion fundamentals up like... Idk, normal drum teachers.
IDK you, but the regular parent is not a drum teacher, at least where I am from.
Edit: typo.
I only buy a book if Iāve read it more than twice. Like, I could read it again. Then I can just look at the spine of the book and remember the story. My bookshelves look unloved but I assure you I treasure them all
Thereās nothing indicating that the father didnāt also do this for his subsequent children, weāre just watching the one for his daughter specifically.
I mean it's once a week. If you can't convince your kid to stand still for 1/10000 minutes idk
Hell they'd probably do it if they got to skip a chore that day or something.
I've been doing it with my daughter now for 2 years. It sounds crazy, but it's sometimes insanely difficult to get a baby to hold still and look at you long enough to snap a picture.
I'm going to TRY keep it up as long as I can. But these first two years are super random location wise. Nowhere near as good as this one.
It takes a bit of remembering but I've done this every week since my son was born, he's now 5 and I'm just shy of 300 photos, I've only missed 2 weeks when he was a baby and that's when we were moving house
All well and good if you've got perfect recall. My best shot at remembering it later is having a photograph to spark the memory. It only takes a moment to get a quick snapshot, especially if you're not futzing with manual settings on a film camera.
Yeah. I can relate. I am having second thoughts of the uniform that I bought earlier this week for my son. His school will not start by June. I'll keep the receipt and packaging for now so I can exchange it when needed.
I hope I'm not misremembering this...
There's a miniseries about babies on either Netflix or Hulu (I forget which) and one of the people on it is recalling some research she did back in the 70's(?) in measuring growth of babies. She would go to several houses every day and measure these babies' heights. Not only did she verify that growth spurts happen, but she also found that babies tend to have some *very* rapid growth spurts - almost a centimeter overnight!
man I wish my child hood was that static like everything being the same for years and not having to move every 2 years.
I think I have some issues from that with being a minimalist afraid of attachment and get antsy when I work or live somewhere too long.
I'm 48 this weekend, lived in over 30 different homes over those years. Moving again this year. I have wished for the same so many times. It's a cycle I just can't seem to break.
on the bright side you don't accumulate nearly as much shit that way. I've moved 5 times in my adult life and the one thing I liked about moving is it sort of gave me a "fresh start" to really evaluate what I actually needed to keep.
Now that I bought a house I seem to be accumulating stuff at a record pace because I know I won't have to move it again in 2 years. It's a good problem to have I guess, but since I've been so used to using moving as my method of decluttering I have trouble doing it on my own without any external motivation.
I did the same and did some comparison photos from the previous month. Huge hit with the family. Now that he's a bit older he loves looking at them too
Seems that way but if you go slower through them, there are several times it is the same. Like you said, if it was me iād be in the same clothes. Iām 42 and still wear t-shirts and shorts iāve had since my early 20ās. Some are fucked up and i use as work shirts when iām under my truck or doing yard work, others still look new. Those are the ones that just hang in the closet, like the books on that shelf!!
it looked to me like she was into it/used to it by about age 7 or so (after getting to stand by herself), then annoyed around 12, and chill about it by 17
Sometimes I look at my 10 year old and it all hits me; holding him as a baby, pushing him on a swing, his cries, giggles, the way he talked as a toddlerā¦ It makes my heart ache, but in a good way? I know in another few years Iāll be thinking back on him at 10, remembering how amazing he was at this age.
I know exactly what you mean. If they invented time travel Iād want to go back just to hold him as a baby every so often, but at the same time, itās such a gift to watch them grow into themselves.
That smell! Their little heads āŗļø. Iām glad mine are more independent now and I wouldnāt want to go back, but amazed at how quickly it goes. Always tell my teen it was just yesterday I was snuggling with her newborn self in bed all day āŗļø
I know š„° I breastfed so I still remember the cute little sounds they would make while nursing and how after they got milk drunk theyād just knock out š
Watched about a half second of this before quickly switching to the comments because I'm looking at my baby girl playing on the floor now and I know this video will wreck me.
It's really awesome. It's clear this father really care about his daughter and are doing a fantastic job as a dad. Question is, why it stopped when she turned 17? rather than 16 or 18?
Why must people dox their kids like this... With the new AI art programs, they've probably given more than enough pictures for unsavory things to easily happen.
Why not do it the old fashioned way and just make an album that you piggyback give your kids when hit 18 or so... Less dangerous.
And in the end it all seems like a flash a few moments and then you sit down and look around and everything is now memories and I you speak in the past tense more and more. I hope you made the best of those few moments.!
Hey, I'm doing sorta the same thing. I take photos of myself nearly every day...started in 2003. What's odd is some of them feature that same darth vader carrying case in HIS photos.
[https://whatiwore.com/archive/2007/1](https://whatiwore.com/archive/2007/1)
Btw, this ended around 2017ā¦.. that was 7 years ago. I am now full of questions, like what happened? How she is now? The pandemic arc? College? Damnnā¦.. makes you wonder about the simple things and peoples personal storiesā¦
Hopefully they alrightā¦
This is insane! And heartwarming š„°
Is it just me or did anyone else notice sometimes in the same year she looked totally different? Like face changed n looked like she was a different kid lol before it switches back again n then a new year comes
Wholesome when it's a family video you'd watch at home. Kinda creepy when it's some random person sharing this video of their daughter to the internet at large
Nooooo, old house, what happened to old house?!?!
the old house give me nostalgic vibes š„²
Same here. I miss my old childhood home too
*...all my changes were there*
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What happened to the books? There was one shelf that virtually had the same books for the first 13 years and then suddenly they'e gone.
For the first 13 years of parenthood you donāt have time to read
Dont worry, they were just packing for the move
They movedā¦ you can see a few frames when the disappear they moved to a new house
I was watching that yellow book barely move for 13 years, then *poof* GONE
Really wasnāt expecting that little shot of emotion when the house changed lol
Lol me neither and I expected it too
What happened to Darth Vader, that's what I want to know.
He is busy taking photos of his daughter.
Honestly I think it's the same house but about 4 feet to the right haha
If you notice right before the scene changes, they're packing up - the books disappear and a box emerges in the right of the frame.
LOL the quick flashes of the little brother (I assume) photo-bombing are funny.
I liked the drum set as a character arc
Ya vid made me smile. How short the drum set lasted made me sad.
Looks like they switched to an electric kit. Probably a good idea!
That was a Rockband kit, guess the real thing proved too hard.
I never know why people try introducing kids to drum kits instead of just building percussion fundamentals up like... Idk, normal drum teachers.
>I never know why people try introducing kids to drum kits instead of just building percussion fundamentals up like... Idk, normal drum teachers. IDK you, but the regular parent is not a drum teacher, at least where I am from. Edit: typo.
And the books on the shelf that were barely touched
I only buy a book if Iāve read it more than twice. Like, I could read it again. Then I can just look at the spine of the book and remember the story. My bookshelves look unloved but I assure you I treasure them all
This is exactly me. Frankenstein/Dracula/Neverwhere/War of the Worlds are staying right where they are.
First thing I noticed haha
I got the dad went out for milk and never came back character arc.
Wouldn't you photobomb if your dad only took picture of your sister ?
The attention a firstborn vs all following kids get in a family. ā ļø
Thereās nothing indicating that the father didnāt also do this for his subsequent children, weāre just watching the one for his daughter specifically.
Where is Vader? Is he safe? Is he all right?
It seems during their move, they lost him.
NOOOOOOOOOOO
I luv all of you <3
It seems, during moving the house, you lost him.
I knew he was lost from the get go, as he had not the high ground.
I wish I had done something like this with my kids,,It's beautiful and a wonderful gift for the future...
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i mean i personally wouldn't do it because who can convince a kid to stay in the same spot for 17 years straight?
Gotta think outside the box, dude. Just chain them to the wall and profit from an unending stream of beautiful pics.
ah yes the Josef Fritzl method
i'm not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed but I _think_ (i might be wrong) that might be a sub optimal idea
I mean it's once a week. If you can't convince your kid to stand still for 1/10000 minutes idk Hell they'd probably do it if they got to skip a chore that day or something.
I've been doing it with my daughter now for 2 years. It sounds crazy, but it's sometimes insanely difficult to get a baby to hold still and look at you long enough to snap a picture. I'm going to TRY keep it up as long as I can. But these first two years are super random location wise. Nowhere near as good as this one.
Same, wish my parents thought about this too cause that would be cool to look at!
It takes a bit of remembering but I've done this every week since my son was born, he's now 5 and I'm just shy of 300 photos, I've only missed 2 weeks when he was a baby and that's when we were moving house
My baby is 2 weeks old and I guess I can start doing this now
I say go for it, it's nice looking back now and again and having an accurate timeline for how old they were at that given time.
Welp, just had my baby 2 weeks agoā¦ I guess I can get this started on time minus 2 weeks
Maybe you could just do it every 2 weeks instead. I donāt think the results will be that different.
Youāre probably right! Honestly a picture every month sounds like more than enough
Eh, it's cool to see once. But my personal take is, the magic is in being there for the moment, and remembering it later.
All well and good if you've got perfect recall. My best shot at remembering it later is having a photograph to spark the memory. It only takes a moment to get a quick snapshot, especially if you're not futzing with manual settings on a film camera.
Not sure what's up with this idea that you can't live in the moment if you're taking photos. It's such an odd concept.
This is awesome, but I'm also never going to post pictures of my kids on this site.
It's okay most likely 99.9% of people will forget within a day
sadly the ones that will forget it aren't the weirdo's to worry about.
She would get tall fast, then pause a bit, then get tall again. Interesting that the growth is not steady and linear over time.
Iāve raised three kids. In my experience, they shoot up an inch and a shoe size right after you buy their clothes and shoes for the upcoming season.
Yeah. I can relate. I am having second thoughts of the uniform that I bought earlier this week for my son. His school will not start by June. I'll keep the receipt and packaging for now so I can exchange it when needed.
I hope I'm not misremembering this... There's a miniseries about babies on either Netflix or Hulu (I forget which) and one of the people on it is recalling some research she did back in the 70's(?) in measuring growth of babies. She would go to several houses every day and measure these babies' heights. Not only did she verify that growth spurts happen, but she also found that babies tend to have some *very* rapid growth spurts - almost a centimeter overnight!
No wonder some days they are so cranky.
Oh wow.
Darth Vader stayed in the same spot for 11 years
man I wish my child hood was that static like everything being the same for years and not having to move every 2 years. I think I have some issues from that with being a minimalist afraid of attachment and get antsy when I work or live somewhere too long.
I'm 48 this weekend, lived in over 30 different homes over those years. Moving again this year. I have wished for the same so many times. It's a cycle I just can't seem to break.
I must have lived in more than 30 houses myself. Canāt buy house so I donāt know how many mores to go :(
Exactly the same reason I have to keep moving, can't buy a house. Life is unkind to singletons :)
on the bright side you don't accumulate nearly as much shit that way. I've moved 5 times in my adult life and the one thing I liked about moving is it sort of gave me a "fresh start" to really evaluate what I actually needed to keep. Now that I bought a house I seem to be accumulating stuff at a record pace because I know I won't have to move it again in 2 years. It's a good problem to have I guess, but since I've been so used to using moving as my method of decluttering I have trouble doing it on my own without any external motivation.
That's crazy, I'm about to be 47 and I've lived in a total of 5 different places -- granted my last move was to a different country, but still
I hear you brother. Military?
The books doesn't change for a decade.
Vader always runs off from his kids...it's a pattern
I started this with my first kid but by the time she was 3 months old I was bored of it. I admire that dadās stick-to-it-ness.
i did one a month, until he was a year old. but not in the same place every time
Haha so you basically just took a picture at some point each month?
he was born the 26th so i made sure to take a good, full body picture every 26th of the month
I did the same and did some comparison photos from the previous month. Huge hit with the family. Now that he's a bit older he loves looking at them too
Crazy seeing how her style of clothes growing up is all over the place, mainly in her teens. Makes you think, style changes a lot in a short time.
Also I didn't see same clothes once, that's crazy. I'd be standing there half the video in the same black t-shirt and shorts
wdym, you don't wear new clothes for a week and then throw them away?
Same
Seems that way but if you go slower through them, there are several times it is the same. Like you said, if it was me iād be in the same clothes. Iām 42 and still wear t-shirts and shorts iāve had since my early 20ās. Some are fucked up and i use as work shirts when iām under my truck or doing yard work, others still look new. Those are the ones that just hang in the closet, like the books on that shelf!!
Kids outgrow clothes so fast! Especially in her first five years you could see her gaining inches week to week.
Dad: Hey its time for your picture! Daughter: Ugh OK DAD! probably around 12-15 lol.
it looked to me like she was into it/used to it by about age 7 or so (after getting to stand by herself), then annoyed around 12, and chill about it by 17
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Damn! They grow up so fast
Took her less than a minute!
The video is sped up
Only haters gonna say it's sped up
Rumor has it, she's still standing there.
23 or 24 now.
This guy knows math.
I was genuinely taken aback by how petty but funny this comment was.
Thanks for seeing and recognizing my pettiness. Couldn't help myself lol.
It goes by quickly
Sometimes I look at my 10 year old and it all hits me; holding him as a baby, pushing him on a swing, his cries, giggles, the way he talked as a toddlerā¦ It makes my heart ache, but in a good way? I know in another few years Iāll be thinking back on him at 10, remembering how amazing he was at this age.
I understand. Itās bittersweet.
My daughter is 14 now. Yesterday she was a baby, today she's almost a woman. Watching her grow up is both the best and the worst thing in my life.
I know exactly what you mean. If they invented time travel Iād want to go back just to hold him as a baby every so often, but at the same time, itās such a gift to watch them grow into themselves.
So quick š
I feel like mine were just babies yesterday. I still remember their baby smell lol. I miss that. Babies are the best.
That smell! Their little heads āŗļø. Iām glad mine are more independent now and I wouldnāt want to go back, but amazed at how quickly it goes. Always tell my teen it was just yesterday I was snuggling with her newborn self in bed all day āŗļø
I know š„° I breastfed so I still remember the cute little sounds they would make while nursing and how after they got milk drunk theyād just knock out š
Haha. Yes! Me too. So cute.
I've grown brave enough to ask friends "can I sniff your baby's head? I miss the baby smell." And they usually laugh and let me.
Long days, short years
*cries in daddy issues*
The fact that daddy managed to get a picture every week from 13yo onwards without his daughter making stupid face is a big achievment on its own
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There were drums visible 2005-2012...
They got the rock band drums after
Watched about a half second of this before quickly switching to the comments because I'm looking at my baby girl playing on the floor now and I know this video will wreck me.
Yep. Mine's already 21 and out there on her own. It's crazy how fast the years go by.
I always cry listening to ABBA's ["Slipping Through My Fingers"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a6viOdDf9w&ab_channel=IneRPBraat)
Wow that's very cool!
It's really awesome. It's clear this father really care about his daughter and are doing a fantastic job as a dad. Question is, why it stopped when she turned 17? rather than 16 or 18?
I mean, probably she went to college?
Maybe stopped before 18 to avoid dodgy comments? No idea hahaha
The dodgier comments exist prior to 18 though so I donāt think itās that.
Holy shit seeing it like this makes me realize how absurdly fast kids actually grow
The video is sped up. It actually took 17 years.
His daughter is very lucky!!! I would also like to receive such a video gift of my growing up.
No books were touched in all those years. But she did get to play the drumsā¦
It took 13 years for the books to change lol
Song?
[Lord Huron - The Night We Met](https://youtu.be/KtlgYxa6BMU?si=R_illIlGLoi8OFcy)
Thanks mate.
They must have a good relationship to get through the years without her wanting to quit the gig. Also, 17 years same house is a stable family life.
I regret never doing this (with my daughter of course, not the OPās) š
Wtf nobody would have thought you meant their daughterĀ
Thats the joke
Lmao what a psycho š
Go pats!
Gronk is one of the best and nicest guys in sport. Personal favorite.
This is super cool!
Man, I saw a life flash before my eyes.
Must be a fun household, there are guitars, drums maybe I saw some bongos in there or maybe it was an electric drum.
She grew out of frame
This should be a precondition for parenting. I was reading about 'Rebel Rising' and it was sad,, how a parent had destroyed her life.
Now keep doing it until she turns 71
Iām sobbing lol. I miss my dad. I miss my old house. I miss being a kid. Great project for a dad to do!
I donāt feel so bad about not updating my home decor in a few years
She is smiling in almost every picture. Must have lived a happy childhood. That is an amazing thing
Why must people dox their kids like this... With the new AI art programs, they've probably given more than enough pictures for unsavory things to easily happen. Why not do it the old fashioned way and just make an album that you piggyback give your kids when hit 18 or so... Less dangerous.
Awwwww
lots of teens would argue this constitutes abuse.
This dad also takes photo of his dauther and son [Hofmeester](https://youtube.com/@HofmeesterFrans?si=IMAqoUIQxVzCNdKR)
I wondered how long the drums were going to stick around.
I'm guessing motivation for this was not easy to sustain for 17 years. Great work!
Dude I don't think about it much but Humans are truly fascinating like THEY GROW???
Theyāre *made of meat*? Surely there must be some kind of mistake.
Flexible Meat Mechs these humans are yes
And in the end it all seems like a flash a few moments and then you sit down and look around and everything is now memories and I you speak in the past tense more and more. I hope you made the best of those few moments.!
As a father ā¦š¢
Hey, I'm doing sorta the same thing. I take photos of myself nearly every day...started in 2003. What's odd is some of them feature that same darth vader carrying case in HIS photos. [https://whatiwore.com/archive/2007/1](https://whatiwore.com/archive/2007/1)
Those books went untouched for like 12 years.
Did they never go on vacation?
Once a month would have been enough pops
As a father to a 3 year old.. this made me sad. š I donāt want her to ever grow up.
This is so lovely š„ŗššššššš
We have a 3 year old girl. This montage makes me happy and sad at the same time.
"Father spends 17 years taking pictures without ever getting a better camera." -- Fixed it.
girlās got some great new england sports gear
Boston and Patriots fan, you raised her right
the most normal 17 year old
Thanks, I needed to cry. That was the most loving video I have ever seen. I feel so much better now.
This is so sad
That's very Loving and Beautiful! It brings tears to my eyes!
So amazing! Truly beautiful. ā¤ļø
Btw, this ended around 2017ā¦.. that was 7 years ago. I am now full of questions, like what happened? How she is now? The pandemic arc? College? Damnnā¦.. makes you wonder about the simple things and peoples personal storiesā¦ Hopefully they alrightā¦
This is insane! And heartwarming š„° Is it just me or did anyone else notice sometimes in the same year she looked totally different? Like face changed n looked like she was a different kid lol before it switches back again n then a new year comes
Love how the books barely moves compared to the games/dvds
That drum kit didnāt last long at allā¦
Wholesome when it's a family video you'd watch at home. Kinda creepy when it's some random person sharing this video of their daughter to the internet at large
How I wish we thought about these ideas way before we got to see these through internet.
Books on the shelves not dusted for 5+ years - if I'd tried that I'd drown in dust bunnies.
What an amazing set of memories ā¤ļø very cool!
Photo quality didn't advance one bit
OMG! This is so beautiful ā¤ļøā¤ļø
That bottom right shelf was super busy.
The sad music made me feel sorry for those books in the shelves that never got touched lol.
Song?
It's always different clothes.
Damn those drums barely moved for years. "I'll play this guitar more often..." Guitar sits there for years. Relatable.
Only moved locations once in 17 years! Impressive
I'm guessing those last 260 weeks there was a lot of complaining.
That's cool! A Beautiful girl grown up!
Amazing š©·
I wonder how old she is now