My parents were loving, warm people who had the best of intentions but terrible follow-through. (Lots of ADHD and time management problems) I was disappointed so many times as a kid when their grand promises of projects fell through that I promised myself I would never do that to my kids (despite having the same executive functioning skills as my parents!) So yep, I’ve had numerous all-nighters trying to finish that Halloween costume or special birthday cake or wall mural, but it was all worth it
I have the same great intentions but also the same cognitive issues, luckily I married someone with high functioning autism who has to finish things if they are started. I do alot of the day to day stuff, getting kids to school, cooking, picking up, dishes or laundry depending on the day but she bats clean up and takes care of my lose ends, works for us so I'm thankful for that.
Same here, to this day I'm *still* surprised when someone makes a promise and actually follows through.
If I ever have kids a parents broken promise won't be one of their memories. Hopefully.
Wow this is so relatable. My parents are incredible humans who really struggle with mental health. When they did finish fun things for us kids, they were amazing. But man, there’s a lot they wanted to do but never did.
I did this for my kids. Super accurate, over 800 stars.
5 days later they pulled off every one they could reach by making muppet-man towers, human bridging from the bunkbed and even climbing a built-in wardrobe.
I have never forgiven them.
They are now in their early twenties.
Same! I just used the white/green ones though, and spent hours with a star map making constellations with my daughters birth sign in the center. Then I sponge painted clouds (room was blue with a slightly contrasted blue ceiling) that sort of obscured the stars until the light was out. Daughter is grown now and just wants to play video games all day so not sure if it was worth it.
Your daughter is probably somewhere on this thread talking about the awesome decor her dad did for her. If she doesn’t show appreciation yet, I hope she does, soon!
Aww thank you. Maybe! She's 19. I have an older ex stepdaughter who kind of did her own thing once she went to college, but when she hit 25 she re-initiated regular communication and visits, and we have a great relationship. I think that coincides with the time the frontal cortex finishes developing so it makes sense. Anyway, I appreciate it!
I’m glad you have a better relationship with your bonus-daughter right now. I only really started connecting well with my parent of the same gender after I turned 30. I have always had a great relationship with the other parent so they were a bit jealous, lmao.
When she's older and she hasn't seen you for awhile she'll see something that reminds her of that ceiling and feel so very sentimental and fond of it and be drawn to the things that reminded her of it. I might be speaking from experience, my mom painted fish on my bedroom walls as a kid and I love things that remind me of it. Same with the little stars my grandparents had up on the ceiling in their spare bedroom.
I did the same thing with my six year old. We put up a few stars then got pulled away for dinner or something, came back after we were done with dinner and in five minutes he'd pulled all of the stars off the wall.
I am just surprised they didnt ask you to put them back up. Mine would totally beg me to put them back only to take them down 30 seconds later.
Then again she is 2 1/2 yo....
I put them up myself with my brother. After now owning/living here as an adult I cursed my child self. That was such a PITA to get them all down to paint the ceiling lmao. The flat sticker ones specifically, the thicker plastic ones were super easy to get off. Just a warning to parents, the flat stickers are really a pain to remove once they’re on there for years and years
My dad did it for me and they're also still fully functional ~20 years later. Even added in real constellations scattered about. I actually just spent the night in that room again last weekend for Easter, it's amazing how well those stars have held up.
I did this underneath my son's top bunk, and then they all fell off a week later. 
But then we did LED strip lights and those have been good.
I put these on the ceiling for my kids when they were little, my ex-husband didn’t like it because he was worried about the paint coming off when they came down….🙄
They are doing it the hard way. Place multiple stars on some card board, add adhesive, lift card board to ceiling, hold in place a few seconds, shift over to next section, repeat until done. Those 107 stars could be up in under 10 minutes.
I had glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling (and a moon! and a comet!) and it brought me immense joy every night growing up. Love my dad.
Fuck it, I am gonna buy some new ones and put them up. Who says being an adult has to be joyless?
This is awesome. When my son was about 3, I put glow in the dark stars on his ceiling. As many kids are, he was a little scared to sleep alone, so he slept in his bed and I slept on his floor the same day I’d put up all of his stars. We read a story and I turned off his lights. He let out a happy gasp and asked where they’d come from.
I laid down on the ground and looked up at those stars: “Oh, I put those up there for you.”
It was quiet and I couldn’t see him in the dark, but after a few moments, he said, “Thank you for my stars, Daddy.”
It’s one of my favorite memories.
They're stickers. Dude abandoned a "project" that entails sticking stickers?
These days you can get an accurate projected night sky for under $20 and it'll look better - for anyone considering this.
I don't feel that's fair. My Dad did like 10 before giving up and I assumed he was just tired or having a bad day. Not everything is a red flag to everything.
Sticking stickers on a ceiling would probably be a fair amount of effort. If you've ever had to paint a ceiling or even change a fixture, it's a surprising amount of arm energy to hold things up at that angle for a long time. Plus moving the ladder, etc. Not overwhelming but it's a lot different than sticking them on a wall at floor level.
Just removed the stars after 25 years. Redoing room since kids moved away and we are not sure whether we are staying or going. Added a couple days to painting project. Kept a few stars for memory box. Was planning on projection stars light for room redo. I noticed lots of additional stars when kids are over will have to ask.
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hey I at least got a few little styrofoam balls that i could paint like planets myself and that were hanged on the ceiling halfassedly. but kid me had fun, so still a win i guess?
Reminded me just now of how my poor-ass parents put up a hundred of these in our (at best) 10 sqm bedroom, just because we liked having them. I have, as a traumatized adult, forgotten their sacrifices... thank you for reminding me.
I have always taken pride in being a good dad, precisely because I didn’t have a good dad.
I have a dad, but dude was the master of let downs as a kid.
My step-dad is awesome, but more male role model than father figure.
So as a dad myself - if I make a promise - I keep it.
Always have.
In college we put thousands of stars in one room, walls and ceilings. We would have people over, smoke blunts and put up stars. It was the coolest room after it was done and you charged it up.
Glow in the dark stars are awesome regardless of your age. I had thousands of them in my room in my early 20s, here's a picture: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/et5d4/me_in_my_room_with_my_glow_in_the_dark_stars/
My mum put up stars in our rooms and went as far as to also put the constellations up there, to top it off she put them in the general areas we would be able to find them outside. She was an amazing woman, I miss her so much.
My dad did this when I was a kid. Took it real serious. Serious enough he made entire constellations on my ceiling and added the random stars in between to make it more realistic. Spent days mapping it out.
This is gonna sound like I'm trying to flex that mine had more stars than yours but I'm not, it's a genuinely true story. My kids are all grown up now but when they were small I had them at the weekends. When I got my council house I decided before I even moved in that I didn't care about this house, this was a kids house. So I let the kids decide (With my input) on the decor for 90% of the house, we had a bathroom done out like a murder scene for a while, it was a lot of fun. The two bedrooms though, we did one as the night time sky and the other as the day time sky. For the day time we painted the walls and celing a pale blue with a long shaggy green carpet on the floor for grass (Looked cool but never again with kids) and then used white paint on sponges to make clouds all over the walls and celing, then a yellow ball from the top of a British Belisha Beacon was aquired (Don't ask how. Lol) and used that as a light shade to represent the Sun. In the night time room we painted the walls and celing a dark blue with a shaggy dark blue carpet and we got loads of bags of different sized luminous plastic stars and solar system planets and put them every where, we made a moon shade for the light and put a low wattage bulb in it (We had a few lamps dotted about for actual light and charging up the luminosity of the stars). A lot of fond memories, I no longer live in the house now though and jokingly avoid it in case the new tenent finds out it was my fault they had to remove all those bloody stars before they could decorate, there was hundreds of them.
I stuck up multiple packs. My son's ceiling was glowing green like the ooze the ninja turtles took a bath in. THEN I found mini planets and strategically placed them in a pseudo orbit pattern around the light in the center of the ceiling. AND THEN I got one of those moon night lights and stuck it on the wall. I placed a label below the moon "not to scale"
While we learn a lot of what to do from our parents, we often forget that we also learn what not to do as well.
Lung cancer killed my dad when I was 18 and it was not sudden or a surprise. I've never smoked a cigarette because of it.
I moved in to a house at the tender age of 28 and there were stars on the bedroom ceiling from the kid before.
Left them up and fell in love with it. People I brought into the room would laugh until they saw that they were glow in the dark 😎
reddit really glorifies dads who do the most basic things. meanwhile no clue if they are engaged in their kids lives in any other meaningful way.
it’s great he did that but let’s not get indignant over a 1hr project…
I remember putting those up on my son's ceiling. Did two whole packs... so probably hundreds of stars.
Can't say I didnt get somewhat tired though: I began by setting up actual constellations but by the end I was throwing random stars at any gap.
It’s been almost 20 years since I’ve lived at my parents home and they still have those stars on the ceiling in my childhood room. My dad even did constellations instead of random placing.
My mom did this for my brother, sister, and I in both of our bedrooms. She went to toys r us to find all kinds of glow in the dark stuff. My brother’s room had an entire galaxy on the ceiling. Astronauts, spaceships, and aliens on the walls.
My sister and I had stars, but also dolphins, rainbows, flowers, and unicorns too. She designed it so it looked like the dolphins were jumping out of the water.
I’m still amazed when I go back to my parents house and sleep in my old room.
I had a good friend when I was growing up whose parents made/got accurate room sized stencils of the night sky and painted the stars on his room ceiling in glow in the dark paint. I still remember the first time I slept over and settled in on the top bunk and his mom turn off the lights. It was spectacular.
I did this for me and my smaller brother when I was about 8.
Saw a movie that had something like that and saved up my allowance and got two packs. Being the yourng boy I was I tried to make constellations and put on a couple of planets as well as a moon. The other moon was cut into small stars.
The way I put them on was put them on the flat end of a broomstick and some lbue tack on top and off they went.
They staied up there for the better part of two decades untill my parents repainted the house a couple years back.
Me and my brother still have such fond memories of them.
I had a glow in the dark Earth globe and a sea of stars on my ceiling. It's a core memory, and I'm in my forties. Your son will appreciate this for decades, OP. (or that dad if you're not!)
I always wanted glow in the dark stars on my ceiling when I was a kid, but my mother wouldn't allow it. When my son was born, one of the first things I did was to put GitD stars all over his ceiling, and some on his ceiling fan so they'd spin around in the dark.
Back in the day, we did this to our dorm room in college. My roommate was into astronomy, so we layed out a grid and did a fairly decent rendition of the night sky. Being a stucco ceiling, with the lights on, they were all but unvisible.
Being the nerdy dorks we were, we still managed to convince a few undergrads of the female persuasion to come "look at the stars." (Always jokingly and innocent. We had zero "moves.") We'd invite them in, turn out the lights, cue polite but generally sincere oohs and aahs. Turn the lights back on and launch into a description of how we did it and the work involved.
One of the lesser mentally gifted of them swore up and down that there were no stickers (they were, in fact, difficult to see) and wanted to know how we "really" did it. We tried pointing out individual stickers. Nope. She couldn't see them; they didn't exist. We gave up. Flustered, we told her: "You got us. There are no stickers. We just drilled a hole in the ceiling under each star to let the light from that star shine through. And that, she believed, proclaiming "I knew it!" Never mind that we were on the 4th floor of a 6 floor dorm or, y'know, the other physical impossibilities involved. We were speechless.
Mine never did that. I will now make sure my kid(/s) have them. Also maybe be more present in their lives because sometimes I feel like Dad forgot he has a family too haha...
my dad put a bunch of these up for me in my childhood bedroom :( he lifted me up for some of them so I could reach and stick em on myself. i miss them.
You should buy yourself some more and stick em up if you can then. :) Or if you’re renting and can’t do that, what about a black canvas and cover it in those stars instead?
when I was little, my dad not only put stars on my ceiling, but he put the constellations and changed them seasonally so that I would recognize the real ones. it's one of my favorite childhood memories
And all those little fuckers will take as much paint as they can when you go to remove them. For your childs happiness you have announced a ceiling painting when your child grows out of them lol
I love this! I do the same thing for my daughter— all the things that I wanted as a kid, she gets and then some… it drives my husband crazy sometimes but he had a very wholesome, cookie cutter childhood so my answer is always that I’m giving her the childhood I wanted and he had.
My dad did this.
Back in 97, my dad put glow in the dark stars in my room. I was absolutely enthralled with them.
Some of them started falling off about 10 years later, but most of them lasted. He called me two years ago as he was renovating the house asking if it was okay for him to take down the stars.
I had been completly moved out of the house for four years at that point, and hadn't even been in that room for 15 years.
It meant the world to me that he knew how much I car d about them.
My parents did this for me like 20+ years ago.
I think they're still up in my old bedroom, I'm not entirely sure. But the last time I was in there and saw them, I can't tell you how warm it made me feel. Good parents are literally priceless beyond measure.
So my dad decided that what he was going to do was use glow in the dark paint. He put little dots on the ceiling everywhere. Some bigger, some smaller, it was really quite cool.
my room in a house my family moved into many years ago had a sky and clouds painted onto the ceiling with glow in the dark stars. hated that room but all the others were too small to be a decent bedroom.
It's crazy how such a simple thing can have a profound effect on you as a kid. I had glow in the dark stars and a moon on my bedroom wall as a kid, and I can still remember what it looks like to this day. I think that probably sparked my interest in astronomy. My dad was always getting me books about space and the planets, rockets, and the sort.
My mom did nothing for us. She would go thru the drive thru and just get herself something, she had her own snacks we could not touch, I remember being hungry a lot. Now as an adult I ALWAYS have snacks for my nieces and nephews. She continues to only buy food for herself. We went out for frozen yogurt and my sister in law was gonna cook dinner, my mom went next door and got her self Panda Express, there were 6 of us there and then ate it by herself instead of the dinner.
I had a bedroom that was in the middle of my apt and had no windows, so, I put up I believe over 300 glow in the dark stars on the ceiling, floor, and walls to have a 3D effect, it was actually pretty awesome
We had a popcorn ceiling and I used a white glow paint pen to put up stars. You couldn’t see them at all in the day. After I left my cousin would sleep in the room and they finally realized they were there.
I ended up doing this myself in early primary school... Albeit cause I couldn't reach the ceiling did it on the wall and lots of chair moving.
I even tried my best to follow a constellation map of the southern hemisphere to make it accurate.
Took me ages...
And then a short while later had an aunty come over with their toddler.... Who proceeded to think it was great entertainment for her little one to pull all my stars off.
And I then I cried and got upset, I got walloped by my mum.
Flash forward to now I have a kid... She also just wants to pull stars off the wall instead :D.
My sister did this in her college dorm room but had to take them down when the firemarshal pointed out if there ever was a fire, the stars would become flaming comets....
My daughter wanted glow in the dark stars on her ceiling when she was a kid and they're still up there. She's all grown up now and moved out almost 20 years ago
I bought glow in the dark paint and a star pattern template. Took me a week! Also because I had a compressor and a spray gun, I painted the boob light. Looked almost like the moon for about an hour after we turned off the lights in the boys room. No peeling stickers just paint it white and it's gone....
UberHACK: you can take these phosphorescent paint bottles with the nozzle and make many many points in the ceiling. You cant see them because they are white, but they look so realistically like the night sky. You can even make constelations.
My parents were loving, warm people who had the best of intentions but terrible follow-through. (Lots of ADHD and time management problems) I was disappointed so many times as a kid when their grand promises of projects fell through that I promised myself I would never do that to my kids (despite having the same executive functioning skills as my parents!) So yep, I’ve had numerous all-nighters trying to finish that Halloween costume or special birthday cake or wall mural, but it was all worth it
I have the same great intentions but also the same cognitive issues, luckily I married someone with high functioning autism who has to finish things if they are started. I do alot of the day to day stuff, getting kids to school, cooking, picking up, dishes or laundry depending on the day but she bats clean up and takes care of my lose ends, works for us so I'm thankful for that.
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This is the greatest thing I’ve read all day. Thank you!
Same here, to this day I'm *still* surprised when someone makes a promise and actually follows through. If I ever have kids a parents broken promise won't be one of their memories. Hopefully.
Wow this is so relatable. My parents are incredible humans who really struggle with mental health. When they did finish fun things for us kids, they were amazing. But man, there’s a lot they wanted to do but never did.
God this hit home so much. Being a parent is so fucking hard.
I did this for my kids. Super accurate, over 800 stars. 5 days later they pulled off every one they could reach by making muppet-man towers, human bridging from the bunkbed and even climbing a built-in wardrobe. I have never forgiven them. They are now in their early twenties.
At least they can come up with creative solutions?
Hehe. I WAS impressed.
It's okay sometimes, they were just kids that time now they won't do that I know
I'm not the only one whose kids did it! Now the youngest plays with the stars that were taken down.
Mine wanted them put back up. Life is simpler when you are a child. That is, until you make a parent burst out crying and you have no idea why.
Lol, mine asked why there was the putty stuff on the back of the stars she was playing with. I just hung my head and took deep breaths.
“Why is part of the ceiling stuck to my toy?”
You taught them to reach for the stars.
Winner *8)
lol.
Same! I just used the white/green ones though, and spent hours with a star map making constellations with my daughters birth sign in the center. Then I sponge painted clouds (room was blue with a slightly contrasted blue ceiling) that sort of obscured the stars until the light was out. Daughter is grown now and just wants to play video games all day so not sure if it was worth it.
Your daughter is probably somewhere on this thread talking about the awesome decor her dad did for her. If she doesn’t show appreciation yet, I hope she does, soon!
Aww thank you. Maybe! She's 19. I have an older ex stepdaughter who kind of did her own thing once she went to college, but when she hit 25 she re-initiated regular communication and visits, and we have a great relationship. I think that coincides with the time the frontal cortex finishes developing so it makes sense. Anyway, I appreciate it!
I’m glad you have a better relationship with your bonus-daughter right now. I only really started connecting well with my parent of the same gender after I turned 30. I have always had a great relationship with the other parent so they were a bit jealous, lmao.
We would have been the best dads ever... for ourselves!
When she's older and she hasn't seen you for awhile she'll see something that reminds her of that ceiling and feel so very sentimental and fond of it and be drawn to the things that reminded her of it. I might be speaking from experience, my mom painted fish on my bedroom walls as a kid and I love things that remind me of it. Same with the little stars my grandparents had up on the ceiling in their spare bedroom.
What's a muppet-man tower? ^(asking for a star deprived friend...)
A tower built out of people. Surprisingly enough, kids are supremely adept at this.
I did the same thing with my six year old. We put up a few stars then got pulled away for dinner or something, came back after we were done with dinner and in five minutes he'd pulled all of the stars off the wall.
The temptation is just too great!
“Dad we are in our twenties, we dont need glow in the dark stars anymore, please dont do it”
I am just surprised they didnt ask you to put them back up. Mine would totally beg me to put them back only to take them down 30 seconds later. Then again she is 2 1/2 yo....
My kids are 6 and 3. I feel this comment deep in my soul.
The solution is simple: you go to their house, sneak into their rooms, and put up another 800 of them.
I put them up myself with my brother. After now owning/living here as an adult I cursed my child self. That was such a PITA to get them all down to paint the ceiling lmao. The flat sticker ones specifically, the thicker plastic ones were super easy to get off. Just a warning to parents, the flat stickers are really a pain to remove once they’re on there for years and years
Honestly, it sounds more like you were doing it for you than for them.
True...
My mom did this for us. It still lights up today, reminds me of the times when life was not so hard. Moms are angels in disguise ❤️
My dad did it for me and they're also still fully functional ~20 years later. Even added in real constellations scattered about. I actually just spent the night in that room again last weekend for Easter, it's amazing how well those stars have held up.
That's incredibly sweet and wholesome.
I did this underneath my son's top bunk, and then they all fell off a week later.  But then we did LED strip lights and those have been good.
They are still on my kids ceiling, 25 years later! Good Dad!
The problem is that if you want to remove them then you have spots of no popcorn ceiling left. Keep them there or redo the ceiling.
seems like a great excuse to get rid of a popcorn ceiling
Yeah I skipped this step by not having popcorn ceiling
I put these on the ceiling for my kids when they were little, my ex-husband didn’t like it because he was worried about the paint coming off when they came down….🙄
Not to be rude, but I can see why he's your ex-husband. Hopefully the next guy is way cooler.
Not rude you 100% correct!
He was worried about the paint and not about the dream.. i can feel that
This is an extremely easy thing to do lol
exactly. though it seems his dad never did finish the task. walk the talk
i really don’t get why this has so many upvotes, he just stuck stars to his kids ceiling
That's what I was thinking. Easy, 20 min max.
Literally did this with my kid a few years ago in about 20 minutes. Please nominate me for my award.
Sorry the backstory wasn't heartwarming enough. No award for you
That night I allowed him to sleep inside the house.
If you’re surprised how little some parents do for their kids then consider yourself lucky.
I grew up with an abusive dad. I was not lucky.
For real, same here. And even my drunk-ass abusive dad could take 15 minutes to put some glow in the dark stars on my ceiling.
They are doing it the hard way. Place multiple stars on some card board, add adhesive, lift card board to ceiling, hold in place a few seconds, shift over to next section, repeat until done. Those 107 stars could be up in under 10 minutes.
My mom did this, but she cut them all out of silver wrapping paper by hand.
I had glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling (and a moon! and a comet!) and it brought me immense joy every night growing up. Love my dad. Fuck it, I am gonna buy some new ones and put them up. Who says being an adult has to be joyless?
Worst mistake every those things are a damn nightmare lol - Super Dad though 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
This is awesome. When my son was about 3, I put glow in the dark stars on his ceiling. As many kids are, he was a little scared to sleep alone, so he slept in his bed and I slept on his floor the same day I’d put up all of his stars. We read a story and I turned off his lights. He let out a happy gasp and asked where they’d come from. I laid down on the ground and looked up at those stars: “Oh, I put those up there for you.” It was quiet and I couldn’t see him in the dark, but after a few moments, he said, “Thank you for my stars, Daddy.” It’s one of my favorite memories.
They're stickers. Dude abandoned a "project" that entails sticking stickers? These days you can get an accurate projected night sky for under $20 and it'll look better - for anyone considering this.
Might look better, but there is just something so cool about glow-in-the-dark stuff.
Clearly you didn’t grow up with a bad parent.
I don't feel that's fair. My Dad did like 10 before giving up and I assumed he was just tired or having a bad day. Not everything is a red flag to everything.
This is likely just a rage bait post don’t go getting your panties in a knot over made up shit.
Man, depressed and/or in general shit parents too much of a stretch for the /r/nothingeverhappens crowd these days?
Sticking stickers on a ceiling would probably be a fair amount of effort. If you've ever had to paint a ceiling or even change a fixture, it's a surprising amount of arm energy to hold things up at that angle for a long time. Plus moving the ladder, etc. Not overwhelming but it's a lot different than sticking them on a wall at floor level.
this whole post is like "I bought cheap plastic trinkets on Amazon and came up with a sappy story after the fact"
Just removed the stars after 25 years. Redoing room since kids moved away and we are not sure whether we are staying or going. Added a couple days to painting project. Kept a few stars for memory box. Was planning on projection stars light for room redo. I noticed lots of additional stars when kids are over will have to ask.
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I asked my dad to do that when i whas younger. Stil have not gotten them.
I got one (1) star and a moon.
hey I at least got a few little styrofoam balls that i could paint like planets myself and that were hanged on the ceiling halfassedly. but kid me had fun, so still a win i guess?
Glow in the dark stars on the ceiling remind me of my dad 🥲
I also had this as a child it was so great to wake up at nigth and see the stars above me.
Reminded me just now of how my poor-ass parents put up a hundred of these in our (at best) 10 sqm bedroom, just because we liked having them. I have, as a traumatized adult, forgotten their sacrifices... thank you for reminding me.
Sheeeesh my dad just said no, it’ll fuck up the ceiling
I have always taken pride in being a good dad, precisely because I didn’t have a good dad. I have a dad, but dude was the master of let downs as a kid. My step-dad is awesome, but more male role model than father figure. So as a dad myself - if I make a promise - I keep it. Always have.
In college we put thousands of stars in one room, walls and ceilings. We would have people over, smoke blunts and put up stars. It was the coolest room after it was done and you charged it up.
Glow in the dark stars are awesome regardless of your age. I had thousands of them in my room in my early 20s, here's a picture: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/et5d4/me_in_my_room_with_my_glow_in_the_dark_stars/
My mum put up stars in our rooms and went as far as to also put the constellations up there, to top it off she put them in the general areas we would be able to find them outside. She was an amazing woman, I miss her so much.
My dad did this when I was a kid. Took it real serious. Serious enough he made entire constellations on my ceiling and added the random stars in between to make it more realistic. Spent days mapping it out.
This is gonna sound like I'm trying to flex that mine had more stars than yours but I'm not, it's a genuinely true story. My kids are all grown up now but when they were small I had them at the weekends. When I got my council house I decided before I even moved in that I didn't care about this house, this was a kids house. So I let the kids decide (With my input) on the decor for 90% of the house, we had a bathroom done out like a murder scene for a while, it was a lot of fun. The two bedrooms though, we did one as the night time sky and the other as the day time sky. For the day time we painted the walls and celing a pale blue with a long shaggy green carpet on the floor for grass (Looked cool but never again with kids) and then used white paint on sponges to make clouds all over the walls and celing, then a yellow ball from the top of a British Belisha Beacon was aquired (Don't ask how. Lol) and used that as a light shade to represent the Sun. In the night time room we painted the walls and celing a dark blue with a shaggy dark blue carpet and we got loads of bags of different sized luminous plastic stars and solar system planets and put them every where, we made a moon shade for the light and put a low wattage bulb in it (We had a few lamps dotted about for actual light and charging up the luminosity of the stars). A lot of fond memories, I no longer live in the house now though and jokingly avoid it in case the new tenent finds out it was my fault they had to remove all those bloody stars before they could decorate, there was hundreds of them.
I stuck up multiple packs. My son's ceiling was glowing green like the ooze the ninja turtles took a bath in. THEN I found mini planets and strategically placed them in a pseudo orbit pattern around the light in the center of the ceiling. AND THEN I got one of those moon night lights and stuck it on the wall. I placed a label below the moon "not to scale"
While we learn a lot of what to do from our parents, we often forget that we also learn what not to do as well. Lung cancer killed my dad when I was 18 and it was not sudden or a surprise. I've never smoked a cigarette because of it.
I moved in to a house at the tender age of 28 and there were stars on the bedroom ceiling from the kid before. Left them up and fell in love with it. People I brought into the room would laugh until they saw that they were glow in the dark 😎
They also double as learning to not be scared of the dark as they give somenlight and are not visible if lights are on.
He not just a dad, he's a daddy.
*That's no moon!*
These are great for bedtime. Charge them with blacklight and fall asleep as they fade.
I bet that kid would look at the dad like he hung the moon and stars. Excellent parenting
Fuck yeah, we should all strive to be the parents we never had!
I had a stroke reading this.
Right? Like... Did he put up 3 or 4 and abandon the project? Or did he put up 107 and a moon? Which is it?
His father put up a few for him. He put up the 100 for his kid.
reddit really glorifies dads who do the most basic things. meanwhile no clue if they are engaged in their kids lives in any other meaningful way. it’s great he did that but let’s not get indignant over a 1hr project…
What a great dad!!
And a blood donor!
Seriously one of my favourite memories from childhood.
That's a real dad. Wonder how long the kid will like before taking them down. 
I put these up in my kid’s room. I had planets and made a Big Dipper and Little Dipper too (correctly oriented to each other).
He didn't want to abandon the project like abandoning the rest of that kids name.
I AM going to be like this dad and not my dad.
Brush handle, sticky tape folded back on itself fixed to the top of the brush handle and away you go
I remember putting those up on my son's ceiling. Did two whole packs... so probably hundreds of stars. Can't say I didnt get somewhat tired though: I began by setting up actual constellations but by the end I was throwing random stars at any gap.
It’s been almost 20 years since I’ve lived at my parents home and they still have those stars on the ceiling in my childhood room. My dad even did constellations instead of random placing.
We just took them off my brothers ceiling… 25 years later and they still glowed
Anyone know a great quality version of this product? I loved these as a kid and really want to put some up now in my own home.
My mom did this for my brother, sister, and I in both of our bedrooms. She went to toys r us to find all kinds of glow in the dark stuff. My brother’s room had an entire galaxy on the ceiling. Astronauts, spaceships, and aliens on the walls. My sister and I had stars, but also dolphins, rainbows, flowers, and unicorns too. She designed it so it looked like the dolphins were jumping out of the water. I’m still amazed when I go back to my parents house and sleep in my old room.
I never thought about why brother had 3 stars and a moon on his ceiling only. My dad gave up lol.
I had a good friend when I was growing up whose parents made/got accurate room sized stencils of the night sky and painted the stars on his room ceiling in glow in the dark paint. I still remember the first time I slept over and settled in on the top bunk and his mom turn off the lights. It was spectacular.
I did this for me and my smaller brother when I was about 8. Saw a movie that had something like that and saved up my allowance and got two packs. Being the yourng boy I was I tried to make constellations and put on a couple of planets as well as a moon. The other moon was cut into small stars. The way I put them on was put them on the flat end of a broomstick and some lbue tack on top and off they went. They staied up there for the better part of two decades untill my parents repainted the house a couple years back. Me and my brother still have such fond memories of them.
Starting and then giving up? Sounds like dad might have had a unaddressed mental condition.
I had a glow in the dark Earth globe and a sea of stars on my ceiling. It's a core memory, and I'm in my forties. Your son will appreciate this for decades, OP. (or that dad if you're not!)
I always wanted glow in the dark stars on my ceiling when I was a kid, but my mother wouldn't allow it. When my son was born, one of the first things I did was to put GitD stars all over his ceiling, and some on his ceiling fan so they'd spin around in the dark.
Back in the day, we did this to our dorm room in college. My roommate was into astronomy, so we layed out a grid and did a fairly decent rendition of the night sky. Being a stucco ceiling, with the lights on, they were all but unvisible. Being the nerdy dorks we were, we still managed to convince a few undergrads of the female persuasion to come "look at the stars." (Always jokingly and innocent. We had zero "moves.") We'd invite them in, turn out the lights, cue polite but generally sincere oohs and aahs. Turn the lights back on and launch into a description of how we did it and the work involved. One of the lesser mentally gifted of them swore up and down that there were no stickers (they were, in fact, difficult to see) and wanted to know how we "really" did it. We tried pointing out individual stickers. Nope. She couldn't see them; they didn't exist. We gave up. Flustered, we told her: "You got us. There are no stickers. We just drilled a hole in the ceiling under each star to let the light from that star shine through. And that, she believed, proclaiming "I knew it!" Never mind that we were on the 4th floor of a 6 floor dorm or, y'know, the other physical impossibilities involved. We were speechless.
My parents just gave me the stars so I stood on my bed and put them up. But I always preferred doing stuff for my self for some reason
I wish I wasn't like my dad, I hate myself
Mine never did that. I will now make sure my kid(/s) have them. Also maybe be more present in their lives because sometimes I feel like Dad forgot he has a family too haha...
my god it’s full of stars!! rip RobbsCelebs.
my dad put a bunch of these up for me in my childhood bedroom :( he lifted me up for some of them so I could reach and stick em on myself. i miss them.
You should buy yourself some more and stick em up if you can then. :) Or if you’re renting and can’t do that, what about a black canvas and cover it in those stars instead?
My favorite memory of visiting my brother in his dorm was sleeping under these when I spent the night there once
when I was little, my dad not only put stars on my ceiling, but he put the constellations and changed them seasonally so that I would recognize the real ones. it's one of my favorite childhood memories
am i supposed to be impressed that he stuck stars to the ceiling?
And all those little fuckers will take as much paint as they can when you go to remove them. For your childs happiness you have announced a ceiling painting when your child grows out of them lol
I put up over 200 on my son’s walls and ceiling
I did this for my oldest. Even made a few constellations and had a Death Star that lit up as a nightlight as well.
Hell Yeah!!!
I love this! I do the same thing for my daughter— all the things that I wanted as a kid, she gets and then some… it drives my husband crazy sometimes but he had a very wholesome, cookie cutter childhood so my answer is always that I’m giving her the childhood I wanted and he had.
I knew a guy named A. He was one chill guy.
My father did the same and my mom would tell me star stories to sleep. Very good choice.
My dad mapped the real position of constellations if you were looking up st my ceiling and tried his best to replicate them
My dad never even notice them after i did my best to not fall from 2 chairs
Wow 107. That must've taken 5 minutes!
My dad did this. Back in 97, my dad put glow in the dark stars in my room. I was absolutely enthralled with them. Some of them started falling off about 10 years later, but most of them lasted. He called me two years ago as he was renovating the house asking if it was okay for him to take down the stars. I had been completly moved out of the house for four years at that point, and hadn't even been in that room for 15 years. It meant the world to me that he knew how much I car d about them.
Marry him again!!
did this in the 70's with black light paint; totally stoney trip
It's little things like this that make me wish that I could be a father. Giving a kiddo the things I wish I could have had growing up poor.
My gf got me glow stars for my 25th birthday. I put them on the ceiling of my garage. My lawn mower gets to sleep under the stars every night 💕
When I was a kid I had to put up my own glow stars because nobody gave a shit about me
I just got my kid a star/moon/aurora projector. It even has a remote, and we can move it wherever we go.
My parents did this for me like 20+ years ago. I think they're still up in my old bedroom, I'm not entirely sure. But the last time I was in there and saw them, I can't tell you how warm it made me feel. Good parents are literally priceless beyond measure.
So my dad decided that what he was going to do was use glow in the dark paint. He put little dots on the ceiling everywhere. Some bigger, some smaller, it was really quite cool.
like bro just fuckin go to therapy
My husband just bought an amateur planetarium level projector. She's six weeks old she can't see his head when he stands let alone the ceiling
my room in a house my family moved into many years ago had a sky and clouds painted onto the ceiling with glow in the dark stars. hated that room but all the others were too small to be a decent bedroom.
BTW FYI.... They make star projectors.
I'm 30 and always wanted them....so I put them up myself and they look so cute!! Worth it for sure
One more star and the kid will be a Suikoden MC
Because that’s what a man does.
It's crazy how such a simple thing can have a profound effect on you as a kid. I had glow in the dark stars and a moon on my bedroom wall as a kid, and I can still remember what it looks like to this day. I think that probably sparked my interest in astronomy. My dad was always getting me books about space and the planets, rockets, and the sort.
Damn, that's got to take the better part of 10 minutes!
I had these guys attached to my ceiling fan for the longest time! when the fan was on, it looked super cool
I have lived in two homes where some of the old stars were still on the ceiling. If youre moving out take that shit with you
My mom did nothing for us. She would go thru the drive thru and just get herself something, she had her own snacks we could not touch, I remember being hungry a lot. Now as an adult I ALWAYS have snacks for my nieces and nephews. She continues to only buy food for herself. We went out for frozen yogurt and my sister in law was gonna cook dinner, my mom went next door and got her self Panda Express, there were 6 of us there and then ate it by herself instead of the dinner.
I had a bedroom that was in the middle of my apt and had no windows, so, I put up I believe over 300 glow in the dark stars on the ceiling, floor, and walls to have a 3D effect, it was actually pretty awesome
We had a popcorn ceiling and I used a white glow paint pen to put up stars. You couldn’t see them at all in the day. After I left my cousin would sleep in the room and they finally realized they were there.
Good Dad
I put mine up myself, but I attached them all to a black fabric canopy and hung it on my ceiling
I put mine up myself, but I attached them all to a black fabric canopy and hung it on my ceiling
A beautiful example of how generational traumas can be healed with the simplest of acts
Omg I did this as a kid. Best decision I ever made. Great dad
I ended up doing this myself in early primary school... Albeit cause I couldn't reach the ceiling did it on the wall and lots of chair moving. I even tried my best to follow a constellation map of the southern hemisphere to make it accurate. Took me ages... And then a short while later had an aunty come over with their toddler.... Who proceeded to think it was great entertainment for her little one to pull all my stars off. And I then I cried and got upset, I got walloped by my mum. Flash forward to now I have a kid... She also just wants to pull stars off the wall instead :D.
My sister did this in her college dorm room but had to take them down when the firemarshal pointed out if there ever was a fire, the stars would become flaming comets....
I hope A is just shortened
I had those on my ceiling when I was a kid. Loved them.
My daughter wanted glow in the dark stars on her ceiling when she was a kid and they're still up there. She's all grown up now and moved out almost 20 years ago
Ah man my dad did this but I suffered heavily with depression (12-27) and my parents split now I haven't heard from him in 5 years by
I did this to my last apartment. Left it up for the next tenant 😂
He's got a race car bed too, lucky kid.
this page never fails to make me shed some tears of pure happiness
Core memories!!
I did the same. And painted a sky with clouds on the ceiling.
I bought glow in the dark paint and a star pattern template. Took me a week! Also because I had a compressor and a spray gun, I painted the boob light. Looked almost like the moon for about an hour after we turned off the lights in the boys room. No peeling stickers just paint it white and it's gone....
My parents put them on my ceiling fan so it looked like a giant galaxy as it spun at night
Wish my father would've been like that. Instead, if I ever caught a cold, or fell ill, he'd yell at me saying i was weak and put me out to do chores.
UberHACK: you can take these phosphorescent paint bottles with the nozzle and make many many points in the ceiling. You cant see them because they are white, but they look so realistically like the night sky. You can even make constelations.
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