Am I Old? XD

[fenderlove]

On Facebook, my cousin's ten year old daughter asked for advice for things to do during the summer. I suggested doing some creative writing or possibly going on a nature walk and documenting/sketching the various flora and fauna she found... Cue a deluge of comments from her and her ten year old friends calling me "stupd," "no kol," and "boreing."

*sigh* I am certain that I was not obnoxious like that as a child... and I definitely had much better spelling than them.

Comments

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I fear that all of my cousins' children enjoy doing absolutely nothing, but then they will complain that they are doing nothing. I offered to take them to the library for a book fair (there were going to be games, prizes, and free food), but they chose to stay at home and whinge that they were soooo bored. My other cousin offered to take them to the pool, but again, they wanted to stay home and twenty minutes later said that no one wants to take them anywhere. Oh, well, we tried. :D

And I could never get those kids to watch BtVS or DW because it's not something their friends watch. They are all terrified of anything "nerdy" because they go to school with a boy whose name is Anakin (his parents are Star Wars fanatics, and they force him to have all SW school supplies even though he hates it and they drive around town with their SW decked out cars with "JEDI MOM" and "JEDI DAD" license plates), and he gets tormented by all the older kids so terribly that it's got all the older kids scared... even though they have no idea what "nerdy" really is nor do they know the joys of fandom!

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

I love fandom, and my kid's friends have told me that they love knowing adults that "get" fandom, but I have to say that those SW parents are verging on child abuse with their obsession. Don't they know these kinds of behaviors lead to kids who only listen to country music and watch nothing but reality TV? Tsk.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Whenever I would substitute teach, I would call all the children "Padawans"... At least I did until the day I had Anakin in a class, and after that, I never said it again. I didn't realize that there was a SW-relatedly named kid in the room. I said, "All Padawans need to take their seats." Most kids just laugh it off, even if they pretend to not know what "padawans" are from, but poor Anakin just slammed his fist down on the desk, his whole face went bright red, and he started screaming, "WHO TOLD YOU?!" over and over again. I was about to call the office because he was freaking out so badly until a girl quietly whispered that he hated Star Wars because of his name (on the roll book, he went by his middle name instead of Anakin, so I had no idea). I took Anakin aside and told him that I really loved Star Wars, but that I understood that having a fandom-related name could be almost unbearable. He calmed down and seemed to get that I wasn't trying to upset him. I also told him that if he wanted to get revenge on his parents he should become an avid Star Trek fan. That made him laugh at least.