What is your child’s current obsession?
Adventure TimeCome on, grab your friendsGoing to veryDistant lands..For my six year old, Adventure Time is his favourite show. He insists upon watching episodes almost every day, he recently acquired a number of plush figures of the main stars, and wants to talk about it at every opportunity. I don’t mind this, because the show is actually quite good. I like the absurdist flights of fancy, the sharply drawn characters and sometimes it is downright hilarious. He probably likes it for different reasons. Although we share the same favourite character - Lumpy Space Princess, a valley girl type who acts like a bratty, apathetic, sassy, attention-seeking and willfully ignorant teenager[1].For my four year old…We have managed to avoid most novelty kids songs. Our children listen to our music when they are in the car or at home, and while this is carefully curated to ensure it is age appropriate (not because swearing is inherently bad, but more because kids have a tendency to say those sort of words at the worst possible time). However, this one has been unavoidable.My four year old is obsessed with this song. It is the first one to be played in the car in the morning, the first one to be played when we pick her up from child care, and she often wants to watch it. I would hate it, but man this song is catchy as hell. The intro, taken from Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, makes it an absolute banger.Just be warned - there is a version of this song performed by James Corden, Sophie Turner (from Game of Thrones) and Josh Groban. It proclaims itself to be the best ever version of the song. It is an abomination, a travesty, neutering everything good with the original. Avoid at all costs.Footnotes[1] Lumpy Space Princess
I'm literally obsessed with the 1960's..?
It was a great time to be living. The trick to living is change. Move on. If you don't like what you see or how things are, make an effort to change them. That is 60's mentality. Stop doodling and start working on who you want to be...a hippie isn't it. Another one is don't settle. Loving the past is great and it's good that it isn't lost on you but you are in the here and now. Start living and making a place in the world now. It was great music though...wasn't it? I still have a lot of the old music in my car and my nephew got in...who listens to only the latest stuff...and told me I couldn't possible still be listening to Janis Joplin and the like. Yea I can. I lived it, I loved it and I'm not forgetting. But I still open myself up to new things. I've learned about the big band era and that great music and all sorts of things. The internet gives you the world. I've recently been watching some Bollywood movies to learn about the people and places in India, Pakistan, the UAE and such. With all my years I really know nothing. So I watch the movies...mostly love stories with great great backgrounds. I look up what I hear so that I learn the history...well...whatever I can. The movies are subtitled and on Netflix if you have it. Start with Shahrukh Khan. And then watch Micheal Palin and his trek at the foot of the Himalayas. You'll even see a place the Beatles stayed when they went to visit the Dali Lama. And the music and the dancing is colorful and great fun. There is just too much out there to be stuck in one place. I just checked online and the big production dancing numbers in the movies are my favorite. It seems there is usually one is a great green meadow with the Himalayas in the background and lovely ladies in beautiful saris and Shahrukh as the fellow that will love you forever. It's fun for me. In the movies at least the words are translated so you have some idea what they are singing about but the beat is great.
How do I make my 13-year-old son get interested in his studies so he takes them seriously and gets A grades without me telling him all the time study and get As? How come some kids his age are very serious about studies and their parents don't even care about it?
I guess the main reason other kids can do it is because their parents don't care. Here's my story:My parents never bothered to interfere with what or how I was studying. They'd only listen to my results at the end of the year. If it was bad, they'd ask me to improve or else they'd congratulate. In 7th grade, (13 years old) I scored something like 70 percentile and my English marks was poor. This time my mother was tensed, she felt I'd not to do well and kept asking me to study throughout 8th and history repeated itself. By the time of 9th grade, she had stopped asking me to study. That year I scored 86 or 88 percentile. In the first test of 10th grade, I failed in second language. The classteacher called up my parents and told I'd fail my tenth grade and they'd remove from school and every possible bullshit. This time my parents told nothing, they didn't ask me to study or force me to or anything a common parent would do. I realised it was the time to pull my sock up and started studying. I ended up falling in love with science. I scored a 9.6 CGPA that year. You can't force someone to love a subject. It'll only make them hate it more if you pressurise them to. I've seen so many people whose parents force them to study but in vain. They ended up destroying the creativity in their own children.
I am obsessed with tragedy/death, but I'm far from evil. What does it mean?
What i mean by this is. Of course everyone has access to the internet now ndays so i have watched a lot of documentaries and videos. But i always get captured the most by anything that is tragic. Like watching 9/11 videos over and over, the norway tragedy, by far the worst video i have ever watched was 4 women getting their heads cut off by mexican cartel members. But after watching it i did so much research on why it happened. I couldn't actually watch that video twice but thought about it over and over! My mind becomes consumed by this, but its evil. I am not evil , i don't watch these thinking they are pleasent. I have even been confronted by my mom wondering why I'm obsessed with negative things. My most recent obsession is this documentary about murderer Troy Kell, where in the beginning of this video he stabs an inmate 67 times. Well it was so disturbing to me, i couldn't believe someone could be so evil.. But then comes the obsession where i keep wanting to know more and more about this person and why! Why do i obsess over such negetive things /morbid things!!??
My 11 year old brother is VILE.. Absolutely disgusting?
EWWW. he's messed up in his head. going to be a serial killer or something. soooo messed up..i feel sorry for you.. D: idk what you should do but uhm ignore him. like completely, or go out more. just forget about him. hes going to be homocidal.. T_T my god, some kids these days...
Why do people get obsessed with anime?
I can say that there many reasons to it that people get obsessed with the virtual world some of which are particular to anime.1) Well drawn beautiful characters. These characters have huge fan base.2) Interesting character personality traits that you often relate to or want to have. Such as sharp intellect, hard working, genius, athletic, loneliness, nerd etc.3) Many of the genres in anime specifically serve the purpose of helping people fantasize their desires such as harem, reverse harem which even goes to levels of perversion or taboo such as in ecchi, yaoi, yuri.4) Awesome plotlines which are unexplored elsewhere. Also being animated they have much lesser limitations as compared to the real television. They can easily venture off to space or set a whole new fictional world.5) Cool action scenes and badass heroes and villains. Of the shonen genre which is probably the most popular one this feature makes people watch these anime and even follow these characters.6) An interesting approach to romance. Anime world has some of the cutest interactions in terms of romance. This when shippers became a community. Also, as most of the characters are good looking, the romance is more dependent on 'inner beauty'.Anime world seems to have an appeal to each an every kind of person in the society and which is why they are so popular.
What are some things for 11-year-olds to do when bored?
If I’m reading this right, you have an 11 year old and you don’t want him (her) to be bored. Well that is his issue not yours.If I ever dared to tell my parents “I’m bored” they will for sure find me something to do: Clean my room, wash the driveway, fix something. Try that approach and you will have an 11 year old that will never get bored again.It is ok to get bored; it pushes creativity, problem solving, imagination, etc. Make them solve THEIR issue. Do you think that is unfair? What do they do when you get bored? Do they even care if you are bored?That doesn’t mean you should ignore them, if they tell you I want to go to the park, I want to build something and I need materials, I’m not sure how to make X, etc. You can help them. But I have a 9yo that loves to say “I’m bored” and I will start with my list:> Kid: I’m bored> Me: Read a book> Kid: NO> Paint something> NO> Clean your room> NO> So what you want to do?> I want you to play Minecraft with me> I’m [Working | Watching TV | Resting]> BUT I WANT YO TO PLAY MINECRAFT WITH MEEE!!> NO!!You can say “what a horrible parent”. No, I’m not. I take care of my kids, I play with them, provide them colors, books, modeling clay, XBOX, PC, Tablet, etc. I will help them if they have an idea, but I am not their toy. It is not my fault they are bored.When I was a kid I never got bored, and my parents were not in charge of keeping me happy/busy. I had way less amenities than kids today have. They don’t have the right to get bored (or sit in front of a screen all day). If they are bored is their choice and you should do nothing about it. If you do that, suddenly you will see they will be more creative (and they will probably break stuff) but they will be less bored.