Current Mood:
Confused
So Geoffrey’s almost 6 and his comprehension is great. He can read a fair amount of words, he’s good with numbers and he’s asking a lot of questions.
However, I don’t spend a lot of time with him so most of his questions are about the things we do together, like watch sci-fi shows like Star Trek or Dr. Who.
When his mother went out some nights to play Dungeons & Dragons he asked me what it was like to play it. I couldn’t properly answer that so found some of the old D&D cartoons and burned them to a DVD for him to watch. A few weeks ago he told me I had missed an episode.
“No,” I assured him, “those are all of them.”
“But then that means they never got home.”
Ouch…I forgot that there was never a final episode. I assured him they did, indeed, get home, but there are going to be other uncomfortable moments as I try to share other things from my childhood.
For example, I’ve tried to get him to watch Star Wars: A New Hope a couple times now. He gets BORED. However, he could sit through all of The Phantom Menace. Guess ol’ George got it right after all.
As I mentioned above, we watch some old Star Trek episodes. He now wants a Star Trek shirt, phaser or communicator for his birthday. However, once he’s caught up on the old episodes come the movies. I already tried him on The Motion Picture and he almost fell asleep, so next is Wrath of Khan. One problem: I saw that when I was 12 and had nightmares about alien bugs burrowing into my ear for weeks. What’s it going to do to a kid his age? Guess I’ll have to go straight to TNG and hold off on the movies for a few years.
How about watching some real science with him? Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, for example?
I’d show him Wrath of Khan and see how it goes. When I was younger I hated gore and that part never bothered me, he may be the same.
I loved Cosmos when I was 11 but he’d find it boring, I’m afraid. Baby steps.