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Wanna have the house first.
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If only I had ADD and needed constant visual stimulation to keep me entertained...unnamednewbie13 wrote:
But they'll have a dad who hates the Hobbit.
If they really filmed it for kids, I'd think they'd leave out the gutting, mangling, mutilation and the immense length of the movie itself.Jay wrote:
I guess it wasn't that bad if you realize it was aimed at kids, but I just didn't think the dramatic additions added anything to the story.
Newbie, it was entertainment. I sat through it, but I didn't walk out with any desire to ever see it again, buy the dvd, or go out of my way to recommend it to people. It wasn't anything special, it was a throwaway.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I bet you get a twitch whenever the camera moves just like every other hatin spaz.Jay wrote:
If only I had ADD and needed constant visual stimulation to keep me entertained...unnamednewbie13 wrote:
But they'll have a dad who hates the Hobbit.If they really filmed it for kids, I'd think they'd leave out the gutting, mangling, mutilation and the immense length of the movie itself.Jay wrote:
I guess it wasn't that bad if you realize it was aimed at kids, but I just didn't think the dramatic additions added anything to the story.
You know, you don't have to raise your kids into the same televised materialist video game culture that you grew up in. If I have kids, there will be no tv in the house and vacations won't be to Disneyland (aka materialized television), they will be to places of great natural wonder and beauty.Jay wrote:
Having kids right now just scares me. There's just so much I want to do before I enter the world of Disney vacations and being tethered to my house every night by the needs of the babysitter. My nightmare is my kids ending up like my youngest brother, forcing me to watch the same Disney movie on repeat seventy-five times in a row.
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My wife will, to this day, drop everything and watch a Disney movie. It is my fate. If I denied her a trip to Disney World, let alone the kids, she would hate me foreverSuperior Mind wrote:
You know, you don't have to raise your kids into the same televised materialist video game culture that you grew up in. If I have kids, there will be no tv in the house and vacations won't be to Disneyland (aka materialized television), it will be to places of great natural wonder and beauty.Jay wrote:
Having kids right now just scares me. There's just so much I want to do before I enter the world of Disney vacations and being tethered to my house every night by the needs of the babysitter. My nightmare is my kids ending up like my youngest brother, forcing me to watch the same Disney movie on repeat seventy-five times in a row.
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I tell her all the time. I'm just gonna have to be the wet blanket realist to offset her Disney optimismSuperior Mind wrote:
Damn I'm sorry bro. Can't you explain to her that she will be setting up her kids for a lifetime of delusion?
Oh, there won't be any iPads or DS or any other crap like that. I think it's extremely lazy parenting. I'd rather teach my kids stuff.Superior Mind wrote:
All my nephews do is play games on their iPods or DS when they have down time. And they are already obsessed with crap on tv. Each time I see them I try to plant a seed of reality in them.
Not really... I did all that stuff as a kid without my mom even having a plan for it. Kids are kind of just funneled in those directions without effort. Played soccer and baseball in my towns leagues mostly because all my friends from school were doing it too. Started playing the saxophone in 4th grade because we were expected to play an instrument for the school band. I read voraciously, mostly because my dad did. Used to do painting, ceramics and stuff in the after school program while my mom finished her shift at work. Doesn't take a lot of effort to fit all that stuff in. Control freak helicopter parents just take it to the extreme. And they do it mostly because they need meaning in their own life and something to feel proud about. Sad really.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
^helicopter parenting danger
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This. And you gotta let the kids get bored. When they're bored they start to think for themselves and get more creative.-Whiteroom- wrote:
I have a feeling its going to be tough to keep kids totally away from that stuff moderation will be the key and just add other mentally healty stuff on top.
The problem with that is when kids get bored they tend to fight with each other, which leads parents to plop them down in front of an iPad or DS I fought with my brother every day when we were kids, but now we're like best friends so maybe it was for the best. Who knows?Ultrafunkula wrote:
This. And you gotta let the kids get bored. When they're bored they start to think for themselves and get more creative.-Whiteroom- wrote:
I have a feeling its going to be tough to keep kids totally away from that stuff moderation will be the key and just add other mentally healty stuff on top.
Fixed for accuracy.Jay wrote:
In a flawless world, if you're a balanced person, you don't have to worry about your kids not ending up balanced They tend to pick up on what you like and copy you. My wife likes art, music, cooking and reading, I like reading, sports, music, cooking etc. She majored in English, I majored in math and physics. Kids will be fine without pushing too hard