This is based on those commercials that Johnson&Johnson used to air where it starts off talking about how life was before you became a parent and how your life is now that you are a parent. You can YouTube them. Anyway I thought "Hey I'm full of superfamily feels, I'm gonna write something based on those." So I did and this was the result.
Let me know if you like it (that means review, please)
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Peters around 11 months
"You never liked it when people wanted to hand you things,"
If you knew Tony Stark it was pretty common knowledge that he was a man who did not like being handed things, for whatever reason from anyone .But that all changed one morning when he was alone with Peter.
Tony and the baby were sitting on the couch watching some ridiculous television show that Steve had left on for them. Today's topic was sharing , and while Tony would have given his arc reactor to change the channel his son could not have been more into it.
There was a blue puppet on the screen talking about how sharing was one way to show someone you care and make them happy. As this segment ended another one began Peter's eyes moved from the screen to Tony, who at that moment did not look very happy.
With the lesson on sharing still fresh on his mind Peter knew what he had to do. On the television the blue thing had repeatedly showed how to share things like toys and candy with others. Peter didn't have any of those things, but he did have some Cheerios, a sippy cup, and his blanket. Maybe one of those things would make his dad happier.
So just like the puppet had demonstrated Peter picked up his Cheerios and got Tony's attention. Once he had it he attempted to hand them over to his dad. Tony who did not like to be handed things, looked at the Cheerios that his son was holding in his direction for a second .
"No buddy, that's okay." He said simply.
Peter hadn't expected that, but then he thought that if his daddy wasn't hungry maybe he would want some of his juice.
"Ba?" He said this time using both hands to try handing over the sippy cup. Whatever kind of juice was in his sippy cup he really liked it, so he figured that his daddy would too. But once again his efforts went rejected.
"Um, no thanks buddy I'm not really an apple juice kind of guy."
Now Peter was feeling a little sad, he was trying his best to share and make his daddy happy but how could he do that when his daddy didn't seem to want anything that he had. Well, there was one more thing that he had but he didn't really want to share that. Peter took a minute to think about if he really wanted to share his most special possession.
It was the blanket that Steve and Tony brought Peter home in when they'd gotten him, of course Peter didn't know that, all he knew was that this blanket meant the world to him, then he remembered what the puppet said about how sharing was caring.
And they only two things that Peter cared about more than his blanket were his dads. So for a third time he got his dad's attention and held the blanket in his hands moving them towards Tony, who this time took a much more attentive look at Peter.
It was then that he understood what his son was doing, Peter was trying to share with him.
That must have been what Peter was doing because he never let that blanket out of his hands. Was it possible that only minutes after watching some strange puppet talk about sharing, was Peter smart enough to try and apply this concept?
Of course he was, and what kind of parent would Tony be if he didn't show his son that he was doing the right thing, what kind of message would that send him?
It was then that he knew what he had to do , even if he didn't like it.
"Thank you Peter." He said taking the blanket out of Peter's hands and sitting the baby on his lap. "But I know how much this means to you so, he said covering himself, but mostly Peter with the blanket, how about we share it together?"
Peter smiled happy that he'd accomplished his mission of sharing and making his daddy happy. Not too long after this Peter fell asleep on his chest allowing Tony to change the channel.
From that day on when Peter, and only Peter wanted to give something to Tony he took it, even if that meant being handed it.
"Who knew that you were just waiting for the right person to take something from, having a baby changes everything."
Tony doesn't like to be handed things, so I thought well what if Peter handed Tony something how would he react and that's when I came up with this idea and then I remembered the commercials and I put the two together.
I'm not saying that Peter totally understands sharing but after looking at it on TV for a while I think he'd kind of understand the concept of giving something to someone else, at least for a little while.
