WTF: Star Wars for 4 year olds!
I realize I am not the most permissive parent around town, but what is up with four year old kids watching Star Wars? We were at the park today with two kids that turn 5 this month and next month and they were talking about who they liked better Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. I said to their moms...How do they even know who those characters are? One mom, looked at me sheepishly and said, He's watched the movie. Wasn't he scared? I asked (thinking about Parker getting freaked out by the rain storm in UP and wondering how much therapy he'd have to be in if he saw Darth Vader or the Emperor.) No, he loved it. His dad really wanted him to see it. Now, it is all he talks about.
So the kid wants to 'play' star wars and Parker looks at him as if he is crazy and says, "Let's just go down the slide."
I realize not all kids like to just talk about and think about numbers and building incredibly complex structures, but come on. Star Wars? (In a related note...Aidan (from Kika, not school) came over the other day and Parker was in them middle of 'playing' with some number tiles. He says, "Look Aidan a 63 and 72!" Most kids would look at him as if he was the crazy one, but not Aidan. Aidan says, "Cool, Parker!" And then they sit down and talk about numbers for a while before going up to build a track together.)
4 comments:
Wait until you find out that the four-year-old girls have seen High School Musical. (Not mine, but definitely some of her pre-K classmates.)
Right there with you Rachel! Mac gets mad because I won't let him watch sponge bob, but there growing brains don't need to be corrupted yet....
It's a tough one because, while I think star wars (or even sponge bob or high school musical for that matter) for 4 years is totally unnecessary, I worry that I am isolating Parker even more than he already is by not letting him do things his "friends" are doing. I suppose this is just the beginning of that. I just have remind myself that when my "friends" were getting their ear pierced, wearing make up and jordache jeans, I wasn't and I didn't turn out so bad...
I'm right there with ya too! Aidan has never seen sponge bob, spider man, or power rangers, let alone Star Wars. Sometimes I think I should loosen up a bit, that's usually after some encounter/ exchange with another kid and family who has been exposed to these things...then I realize I'd be succumbing to peer pressure if I did that. No thanks. I'm happy just the way things are, Aidan and Parker can keep on talking numbers all they want ;)
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