[radiorental]

Dad here, I agree with all of the above with a caveat... my kids are now 9 and 11.

After a long road trip when they're farking around in the back of the car I'll start throwing down some dad jokes. They soon plead for me to stop.

There's something agonizing about processing a good Dad joke, it's now become torture for them. The deeper and more twisted the pun the better.

Maybe I'm about to reach Peak Dad?

[fknorangesite]

100%. Once they've grown up a little bit, they recognize what you're doing; the game now changes from "how can I make this kid giggle" to "how can I make this (pre-)teenager roll their eyes" with the same joke?

[annoyingnoob]

This happens almost daily in my house. I get some kind of sick pleasure from annoying them.

Kid: I'm hungry. Dad: Hi Hungry, I'm Dad. Kid: Stop it! Dad: Stop what? Kid: Why do you always do that? Dad: Because I love you. Kid: Seriously Dad, I'm hungry. Dad: And I'm seriously Dad.

[2muchcoffeeman]

It's all about the end game content.

[saghm]

Honestly, I think that almost anything that would otherwise be interesting can become tiresome to people who experience it too much. I remember reading that the Red Sox manager, Alex Cora, would video call one of the Red Sox star players (Xander Bogaerts) to have him tell his kids to eat their vegetables when they were refusing, and it worked! The kids clearly were Red Sox fans who were impressed to hear from one of their favorite players, and yet, the fact that their dad was this player's boss was somehow not suitably impressive. No matter how impressive you might otherwise be to them if you were a stranger, it's hard to avoid being boring to your own kids.