Are you raising geek kids?

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My daughter is 2, last night during dinner she said "Mommy, zombies ate my brains." We play PvZ2 together and we have lots of zombie stuff in the house.  It was very cute.  She also likes Daleks and recognizes not only the Doctor Who theme but some of the other music from it as well.  She loves books and I'm excited to share Harry Potter with her someday.  I'm going to make her do mother/daughter costumes every year for Halloween and we are going to dress up for Denver Comic Con this summer.  This was Halloween 2 years ago (sorry if this is big)


I hope that she embraces the geekiness and doesn't grow up to be too embarrassed by her parents.  

[Dumbledork]

Oh yes. She was Doctor for Halloween, While DH was a weeping angel and I was a dalek. She knows the theme and has favorite episodes. She loves the Star Trek cartoon. We're going to a huge dinosaur exhibit tomorrow and she's really hoping to ride one, lol. She's obsessed with Super Hero Squad/Avengers, especially Iron Man and Hulk. We just started her comic book collection this past Christmas. They were having a buy 5, get 10 free sale so we stocked her a diverse selection to get her started, lol.

We've held off on HP. She's watched bits of the movies but that's really it. She gets his name confused with Peter Pan all the time for some reason, calls him Peter Potter.

We try for a balance of geek and non. She loves ballet and princesses just as much daleks and Spock.

Oh, she also prefers Amy. She started watching a Clara ep with me once and turned around after a few minutes and said "Who is that? Where's Amy? I don't like this girl."

[DesertMoon]

He's too young to tell, but hopefully he will love sci fi and be pretty much a clone of me in every way.

[scribellesam]

Mine is still too little to pay attention, but I did dress him as Smaug for Halloween and I was Bilbo. He's already seen a little of the LOTR movies and quite a lot of Doctor Who as a baby. He used to bop along to the theme song.

[cuddlyevil]

I am. They are all lovers of godzilla, cheesy monster movies, star wars, futurama (i wore my whoicide shirt last weekend and ds#2 was all "it"s bender!") and super heroes.

DD just started reading HP and she is almost done with book 1. Stbx started her comic collection a year or so ago. She has a bunch of supergirl now.

They all love nongeeky stuff too (my little ponies, baseball, hockey, etc). So right now there is a good balance.

[Pippin]

This is a question?? My daughter was Chibi Moon for Halloween and my son sings along to the Star Trek theme music:) I suspect DD will be more into sports like daddy while DS will like my geeky stuff.

[GilliC]

I don't have kids, but I'm definitely trying to geekify my godson.

The other day I was looking through old Amazon orders, and I found our baby gift from when he was born:
- BabyBjorn carrier

- Boppy

- Fisher Price Aquarium

-a book on Haskell (The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths, and Programming)
We told them that this was the kid's first programming book.


Haskell is an extremely geeky functional programming language that neither of us even knows (but would like to). It was mostly a joke, but I have since bought him the Robot Turtles programming board game, and am pleased to hear how much he likes to play it. (I leave the pop-culture geekery to his parents, because they are both well equipped to educate him in that area.)

[semay]

Dumbledork and Pippin - please tell me you have pictures.

[Pippin]

Jan 11, 2014 10:03:09 GMT -5 semay said:

Dumbledork and Pippin - please tell me you have pictures.

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My kids were horrible picture takers that night but this is the best one. 

[semay]

Pippin that's so cute. I love the little pink hat!!

[Pippin]

Jan 11, 2014 12:09:50 GMT -5 semay said:

Pippin that's so cute. I love the little pink hat!!

Thanks! I'm really happy with the way the hat turned out. My DD is totally bald and its cold here so I took a chance on crocheted pig tails haha.

[IIOY]

Goodness, yes. Legos are huge around here and at any given point in time, something (or someone) someone is playing music from Star Wars. Lots of light saber and Darth Vader action, and a lot of things get explained in terms of Star Wars. Have a fever? Your body is the Death Star, your immune system is Darth Vader, and your fever is the Storm Troopers that have been sent out to defeat the invading Rebel Alliance. To little kids, this makes an abundance of sense!

[rootbeerfloat]

Yes, our house is currently obsessed with Star Wars - which planet we'd choose to live on, which droids are our favorites, etc. However, DS prefers episodes 1-3, so we clearly have failed somewhat, lol.

DS also loves watching kaiju movie tributes on youtube. Thanks, Pacific Rim.

[gnorah]

Of course! My son was Link from The Legend of Zelda for Halloween. A past Halloween costume was a Bucket-Head Zombie from PvZ. It was awesome.

He is developing his own geekiness at the moment and is obsessed with Minecraft and Pokemon (the card game and games for his nintendo ds.)

He wanted to sing "Still Alive" from Portal for his talent show concert last year (but it got cancelled because the city flooded. He's still grumpy about it 6 months later!!)

[rootbeerfloat]

Also, they were Digimon for Halloween.

[starfish]

I think they are geeks, but I am trying not to push them into something they don't like. Both kids love star wars, playing on the Wii, fighting over the ipads and watching my DH play video games. They are not interested in Doctor who, care less about most cartoons like My little pony, or Adventure time. Mickey mouse clubhouse beats everything but Star Wars. If given a choice they would rather be outside playing something like chase or ball. They are very active, and enjoy playing more then gaming or watching tv. Plus we keep screen time to small amount.
They are pretty little still, so could change soon.

[itsme]

The older one plays video games (Fable & Skyrim right now) and loves to read.

[BlackCanary]

No kids, but if/when we do, we are so raising them as geeks!

Though DH keeps asking what would I do if they become major jocks and not geeks. I would be very sad....

[IIOY]

Jan 13, 2014 19:39:18 GMT -5 BlackCanary said:

No kids, but if/when we do, we are so raising them as geeks!

Though DH keeps asking what would I do if they become major jocks and not geeks. I would be very sad....

I was a jock AND a geek growing up. This can be managed. :-)

[rootbeerfloat]

I will say that my kids like what they like. Sometimes, it aligns with things we like, and sometimes not. H and I have been trying to get them to watch sports forever, but they have so far resisted our brainwashing

[BlackCanary]

Jan 14, 2014 6:41:34 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Jan 13, 2014 19:39:18 GMT -5 BlackCanary said:

No kids, but if/when we do, we are so raising them as geeks!

Though DH keeps asking what would I do if they become major jocks and not geeks. I would be very sad....

I was a jock AND a geek growing up. This can be managed. :-)

Good point.