#great dad

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[thehatter1]

Linda in the background

Linda : bobby, do you need any help?

Bob trying his best: no linda, I got it!

Gene: Onward!! To the kitchen!!

Bob is trying to be a great dad and give his kids good childhood memories

[stevesbipanic]

Just thinking about how Hopper hadn't met Robin til he came back and just thinking about how when he comes back he's like telling the story of his year in a Russian prison and Steve and Robin just bring up casually BC it's been almost a year and they have desensitised themselves a bit to it how they were captured by Russians and how Steve was TORTURED. I can just imagine Hopper being horrified by this cause like Steve is one of his kids and like wtf and he just gives them both a big dad bear hug.

[agentem]

In the Across the Spider-verse trailer, Peter B. Parker is wearing fluffy slippers but they match so I think he's doing great.

[aaronminyardthebettertwin]

Sign language

Nate is the first one to use it

It’s great they did that

He is soooo cuteee

“I love you daddy”

And Clint signing back

So sweet

“ love you more”

He is such a great dad

[the-last-cuddlebender]

Aang was a great dad.

(A little unedited rant inspired by @queenaleesbiggestfan-writes comment on this post and because #stanforbestdadaang is my passion and gets my blood boiling and my heart breaking when I read or hear otherwise)

A parent spending time with their kids doesn’t equal time spent loving their kid. A parent can spend a few hours a week with their kid and give that kid more love (and them feeling loved) than a parent who spends every day with them. Even just standing next to them can be different. They can make their kid feel like the only thing that will ever matter, or they can make them feel lonely even though they aren’t alone. Quality over quantity always wins out.

In Aang’s case, he had a duty to pass on airbending to his airbending kid so that Tenzin could take on the responsibility of being the last airbender when Aang was gone. Taking only Tenzin on little vacations to ride the koi and whatnot were part of that airbending training. It was business disguised as fun. Aang had to teach Tenzin (the most “grounded” airbender ever) how to have freedom and fun because that’s what it meant to be an airbender. Even Gyatso taught Aang like this, and we see it in the flashback where he and Aang airbended fruitcakes onto the other monks; Gyatso praised Aang’s airbending skills as his pupil right after. It was training disguised as fun, and that’s exactly what Aang did with Tenzin. And Tenzin, still being too grounded for an airbender, shows us in tlok just how badly he needed extra help learning fun and freedom with how he teaches Korra to airbend (at first) and Meelo how to clinically train the lemur army. He was too stern, and Aang knew this. He tried his damned-est to teach his youngest son what it meant to be an airbender (by giving him some private tutoring).

Aang’s kids were very different and had very different needs (because they were just born that way), and so he loved them differently, too. But that does NOT, in any way, mean he loved them less. imo, tlok doesn’t talk about what Aang did with Kya and Bumi when he spent time with them because, if tlok did, then the argument that Aang was a bad dad would be made invalid. He probably did waterbender and non-bender-specific things for each of them, too. Tenzin just needed more one-on-one attention (that had to be away from the city and people and chaos that might distract him from what Aang was trying to teach him), and sometimes kids need that. Aang tailored his love to each of his children because they were all different and needed him differently.

And, in the end, Aang taught Kya and Bumi how to have freedom and fun, too. Kya learned freedom from him—by letting go of who she was in order to discover who she is and could be by traveling the world. Bumi learned fun—by sharing his great sense of humor with everyone he knew and loved and by never growing up. Aang taught them to be airbenders, too. They just didn’t realize it.

Aang was a great dad. And it visibly breaks Katara’s heart in tlok when she hears her and Aang’s kids talk about how he didn’t love them enough/loved them unfairly. She doesn’t tell them otherwise, either, because she knew Aang would never want to invalidate their feelings. Kids just perceive things differently. If their children felt like he didn’t love them enough no matter how hard he tried and tailored his love to their needs, then that would be okay with him, no matter how much it would hurt his heart. He would never tell them that their feelings were wrong. Their feelings were, above all else, completely valid. He would have accepted them because he loved his children and would never tell them how to feel about him.

Also, I think we’re all forgetting a very, very important detail:

Aang never knew how his kids felt.

He probabibly thought he was doing everything as best as he could and was being the loving guardian to his kids that Gyatso was to him.

Aang never knew how his kids felt. He would have IMMEDIATELY changed parenting tactics if he did. And him not knowing until after he was GONE and could do nothing about it is, to me, the most tragic part of the Kataang family as tlok presents it.

Korra probabibly randomly cries without knowing why because of how heartbroken Aang’s spirit is once he learns how “bad” of a dad his kids—his entire world—thought he sometimes was.

I could go on, but I’ll keep this from becoming an essay.

Aang was a great dad.

No one can ever convince me otherwise.

[shypitaya]

Cutie moments of TTBGO:

Branch being a good father

[kawaiidesuswag]

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