Parents and their Nerf Kids

Hi all,

This thread probably won't interest many people, but I don't really care. In the last few months, I'm noticing more and more (Dad's) on here, that have young children (predominantly girls for some reason!!).

So I thought, what the heck. Why not share your photo's/stories of the kiddies helping out/playing with Nerf, and any blaster's they may have.

This is my daughter Alexya - she was 18 months old when this was taken:



Bub's been reloading and retrieving darts for me since 13 months old, and loves Nerf. Obviously, I only use stock darts and blaster's with her around.

She has now progressed to dart-smithing. Whilst trying to make sili-tipped darts the other night, she insisted on helping/hindering me by passing the sili-tips when it was time to glue them on.

Alexya is 20 months old now, and I'm in the process of painting a reflex for her - from little things, big things grow!!

Cheers,

Your daughter is gorgeous, Clunk! That's real cool, man. She looks like she's having a blast!

That is really cute. One day she's going to be a world class modder (like Uin13 or Coop772) and she'll be asking you to go to go to other countries for nerf wars.
Haha.

She's so cute. I have a little cousin that loves nerf. Whenever he comes over he's like "Mata gunn, we play gun". Not sure I'm giving him the right message but he sure enjoys himself.

I have a video of him chasing his sister with a magstrike, just need to find it.

This one's more from the child's point of view, this child being me.

My mom disapproves of my Nerf hobby, but my dad's cool with it. While I'm modding in my room, next door he's playing with the Move and the PS3, so I'm not the only child around with big toys.

One time he borrowed my Raider and used my mom as a test subject for the slam fire mode

My little girl xmas day. Since the Barricade I have given her a LSFG pistol with a brass barrel. At just under 3 yo she can fire off the hip and hit me in the back off the head 3 times in a row from across the room.

@2120 - my mum jsut says as long as you pass university and get a job. Lol.

@Dietzie - that's awesome mate!! I'm hoping bub will move up to a normal blaster soon. Her hands are still a little small though - but the Reflex should be a perfect fit.

haha Littlebro

littlebro05 wrote:@2120 - my mum jsut says as long as you pass university and get a job. Lol.

and a haircut perhaps.... lol

Had to find this one. Professional photographer I know done this as part of a sitting for my then 2 week old son (now 8 weeks)

@ clunk. Watch her when she gets her own. There are quite often epic shootouts and well planed ambushes here

Dietzie wrote:Had to find this one. Professional photographer I know done this as part of a sitting for my then 2 week old son (now 8 weeks)

@ clunk. Watch her when she gets her own. There are quite often epic shootouts and well planed ambushes here

Nice work mate - congrats on the new arrival also!!

Yep, looking forward to getting this reflex finished. Just need to get the wife interested now... lol

Thanks

My missus has been into it for a while now, enough so that we walked into Target for a play mat and walk out with a play mat and an Alpha Trooper for her lol

This is my Daughter Mikayla and her favorate nerf gun is the "Vulcan".
She loves to hold the trigger down and emty the belt, then shouts "Yeah" while clapping.
The wife hates me letting her play with my arsonal of guns. She wants her to be a little girl

@Nemesis - that's a gorgeous little girl you've got there!! You can really tell from the pic that Mikayla's having a great time!! I'm quite fortunate that my wife encourages our daughter Alexya to "be a little boy" every now and again.

As long as the kids are having fun and they're safe, who cares what it is that they're doing.

Seems to be a common trend of Dad's and their Jnr Nerfer's being little girls!!

Great to see some quality Father/daughter time - another good reason for spending time/cash on this hobby.

Maybe I should've ordered an extra PAS - just so I could have one for myself...

clunk07 wrote:@Nemesis - that's a gorgeous little girl you've got there!! You can really tell from the pic that Mikayla's having a great time!! I'm quite fortunate that my wife encourages our daughter Alexya to "be a little boy" every now and again.

As long as the kids are having fun and they're safe, who cares what it is that they're doing.

Seems to be a common trend of Dad's and their Jnr Nerfer's being little girls!!

Great to see some quality Father/daughter time - another good reason for spending time/cash on this hobby.

Thanks Clunk07. I like my father/daughter time aswell. It's better when mum's not around we have more fun.

I can understand why my wife worries as we had tried for 7 years (4 IVF Cycles) and she came along naturally.



Here is another one after she has let off a belt.

Yeh, I think we all enjoy our time with the kiddies when Mum's not around!!

You've got to stop with the pics mate - she gets cuter with each one!!

It's definitely one of the most frustrating/heart-breaking things to go through, we went 12 months, and were just considering our options, when a night of drunken debauchery delivered us our little jnr nerfer!! I couldn't imagine what you and your wife would've went through - at least there was a happy ending/beginning to the story.

Cheers,

- Clunk.

Decided to let Amelia loose with the DUMBShot

The new Reflex:

Hey Clunk great thread. I think you'll find theres a lot of dads like me who might just enjoy Nerf as much or more than our kids. The hobby/sport has brought me alot closer to my son and we would now spend at lest a couple of hours a week together in the shed. It gives us older dads a real connection and 'quality time' with our kids that we may have missed other wise.

Yeh, it's definitely good bonding time. Admittedly, I can't wait until bub is a bit older so I can get her in to the workshop. At the moment though, she is a very good dart-collector.

BTW - hope you haven't got a BTV2 spring in that LS - your young bloke will have arms like Arnie before he's 18!!

Cheers,

The longshot has just the stock and night finder spring + the usual mods which we've found suit the younger boys but he's been practicing and practicing his V2 RSCB TS which is now his primary. So now he gets 25m flat he wants to play with the big boys. All I can say is look out 4B int the field

Nice work mate, sounds like you've got everything sorted!!

Just don't give all your secret's away to the young fella's! haha

He's got a very good shot too. He's gotten me about 4-5 times from about 20metres away. I'm impressed.

Alexya helping me range test OzNerfNerd's RP spring upgrade kit in a new AT:



She's got pretty good style, considering bub's only 21 months old haha

I need to train my sister to do that!

Unknown wrote:I need to train my sister to do that!

Start them young mate!! haha

Don't train her too well though, she may show you up!!

She's used my LS as a melee weapon a few times

I trained my sister too well haha . . . She has superb accuracy with a stock recon, and survives longer than most people at wars. I'm still far superior, however. Modding gets her stumped

Who knows, Clunk, you may have a champ on your hands in a few years!

@Unknown - LOL!

Swatsonia wrote:
Who knows, Clunk, you may have a champ on your hands in a few years!

Yeh mate, hopefully we do!!

Either that, or a pro-golfer/tennis player - early retirement would be nice!! haha

Happy Father's Day to all the Nerf Dad's out there.

Cheers,

I concur...

I've got 0730 - 1530 so the boy's decided to bring in a plate of food for lunch.

Sauasages, roast pork, chicken wings, coleslaw, potato salad, cupcakes, chocolate cakes and rocky road.

Dayummm

royal86 wrote:I concur...

I've got 0730 - 1530 so the boy's decided to bring in a plate of food for lunch.

Sauasages, roast pork, chicken wings, coleslaw, potato salad, cupcakes, chocolate cakes and rocky road.

Dayummm

Lucky!! I love rocky road!

haha - nice work Luke!!

The kid decided to share her ice-cream with me, not intentionally though.... lol

Looking forward to a home-cooked roast meal tonight for tea!!

Cheers,