Gametes In Love

This was certainly going to happen. I was biding my time, really, but we appear to be at the thresh-hold and I’m not ready to cross over.

G’s friends like/talk about super-heroes. They talk/like/watch Star Wars.

You wanna know what’s in rotation at our house?

– Peppa Pig
– Dinosaur Train
– Oscar (the lizzard)
– Busytown Mysteries
– …the occasional video on monster trucks and helli copters

Our Sprout line-up kinda doesn’t pair with Spider Man, Batman or Return of the Jedi.

Sure, the boys have “Superman” shirts. But we can talk about those abstracts at the same level as the obscure Iguana that happened to be on the Khol’s shirt I got last season. But now they get books, and play pretend at school, and G can tell me a summary of the Avengers movie without ever having seen it. It makes me go “blink! blink!”

When CAN/SHOULD these movies be introduced to him? I was thinking 7? Maybe 8? While we watched along side him. I’m not forgetting that we’re talking about the kid that thought Madagascar 3 was too scary less than a year ago, and asked to leave the movie theater. He doesn’t like the shark part of “Finding Nemo” because it scared him. Is he really ready for light-sabers, mechanical robots and evil villains (that look scarier than a cartooned up French motorcycle animal-control cop with an over-exaggeratedly big rear)? My gut says “No!”, but how do I know unless I try?

And I’m just not ready to give up on KQED, damn it!

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