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I just took my 10 month old daughter to WonderCon, a comic book and pop culture convention in San Francisco. Details here. I'm a geek at heart, and I'm sure I'll end up trying to turn my daughter into a geek as well, and just as she'll reject hockey to play badminton, she's sure to reject geekdom for being the president of her sorority.

Are there any other geeky dads out there? Do you hope/fear that your kids will embrace geekdom? Are you doing anything to actively cultivate/discourage this in them?


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Submitted by BackpackingDad on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 3:33am.

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I totally hope my kids will

I totally hope my kids will embrace my geekdom. My oldest already loves the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and we are going to Wizard World (comic convention) out in L.A. in mid march.


Sat, 02/23/2008 - 10:55am

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I dunno

My father was the true blue American Jock. Capt of the football team, a Marine Corps Sargent, loves sports of all kind, and dispite his enthusiasm for sports I never picked it up. I take mylittel girl to Rocketship to get comics every two weeks and I have my Batman tees and watch The Prisoner and Star Trek, and listen to gobs of The Who and Bow Wow Wow but I can't say it will stick. It's natural to reject what your folks are for self determination and definition.

But props to my dad for taking me to endless battlefields and more imoportantly taking me to see "Cassablanca" at the Wadsworth Atheniem in Hartford when I was about 12. Changed my life.

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Sat, 02/23/2008 - 11:03am

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I'm amazed

I have to say I'm amazed at the number of comic book /sci-fi geeks here. I'm a music geek, and have plenty of other nerdy tendencies (UFOs, gov't. conspiracies, history). I also love the Red Sox, and I play baseball, but so far my nearly 6-year-old son has show no interest in either. He's far more likely to follow in my music geek footsteps. And he loves to read, as do I, and I'd love it if he were into writing the way I am, too. My guess is that he's gonna be taller and stronger than me, but not more athletic, and that he'll far surpass both my wife and me in intelligence.

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Sat, 02/23/2008 - 11:21am

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1 wife geek + 1 husband geek= ?

-I dunno what we are going to get, but if what you put in is what you get out.

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Sat, 02/23/2008 - 3:54pm

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World of Warcraft

I let my 4 year old and my 6 year old daughters play World of Warcraft. Does that count as geeky? So far I'm not too worried about online predators because neither can read well enough to respond.

My 6 year old has a twinked 10th level fighter named "horsey ribbon". My 4 year old has a mage and likes to "throw fire" at the wolves. The wolves are the bad guys to her because they attack the bunnies in the game.


Sat, 02/23/2008 - 6:36pm

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most likely

Most likely my son will either be a music geek or just a geek like his mother and I, and she's a big PC nerd, . I occasionally watch sports when I get with the guys and hang out but don't aim at watching them. I'm more into the history stuff, anything that has to do with music(VH1 classic is constantly on my tv,) art stuff, and my wif and I are big into Battlestar Galactica, so much I have all the comics to go along with the seasons. and I'm pretty sure my son was conceived one of the nights of watching BSG and drinking. :) I'm big into playing Wii and PS2 games in whatever free time I have right now.

But I play in an 80's cover band on the weekends, so hopefully Landon will take after me and have some musical talent to him.


Mon, 03/17/2008 - 3:17pm

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80's Cover Band

That's just....

...Awesome. Possibly even Tubular.

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Mon, 03/17/2008 - 9:18pm

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link

www.myspace.com/asif80s
www.negativeeleven.com/asif
www.youtube.com/reallyfastpictures (under AS/IF)


Mon, 03/17/2008 - 9:21pm

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We prefer the term athletically challenged....

Thats soo cool. My kids are still to young to play Wow... And no its not geeky...We need to change the word geeky..Geeky is now a bad word..We are athletically challenged... Thats a good way to say it...My kids love playing with my rock band drum kit and guitars for my wii..My 2 yr old ( Kaidin ) loves yelling into the mic while me and my wife play. Then when the song is over he cheers like crazy. Sometimes they would rather watch mommy or daddy play Mario or Go-Karts ( Mario Kart ) And my older boy knows all the mario characters by name. He is 3. He also likes to make commentary as I play Zelda: Twilight Princess...... :Where the wolf go?" or "Snow is gone"....And he likes to let me know when I fall of cliffs.... " He goes ..Ahhhhhhhh!..." Kids are great...My kids love drawing eah other pictures on our DS's and they can sit there and send each other there drawings without help...I am raising some very Athlettically challenged little men.


Sun, 07/27/2008 - 1:28pm

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