# In what guilty pleasure do you indulge, and then pass it off as "for your children"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-guilty-pleasure-do-you-indulge-and-then-pass-it-off-as-for-your-children/92053>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 7, 2001, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-guilty-pleasure-do-you-indulge-and-then-pass-it-off-as-for-your-children/92053 "2001-11-07T20:52:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-guilty-pleasure-do-you-indulge-and-then-pass-it-off-as-for-your-children/92053/21 "2001-11-09T15:05:48Z")

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Raking up a pile of leaves for the kids to jump around and play in _knowing_ that they’re going to want me to join them. Same thing when it snows. We just _have_ to take the kids sledding!

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**Author:** ![robinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@robinh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinh)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-what-guilty-pleasure-do-you-indulge-and-then-pass-it-off-as-for-your-children/92053/22 "2001-11-09T19:00:15Z")

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My 12yo has been getting interested in music lately, so I get to take her to concerts. Fortunately, her tastes aren’t too bad. A couple weeks ago we saw the Family Values tour, which was a lot of fun. And today, I got tickets to see Weezer! Yeah!

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