PT My son gets it!

I've shown my boys SW so many times it's not even funny. They've also played the Lego Star Wars video games. Last night, though, I decided to put in Ep III. Last night my youngest (7 yo) said to me, "So... that man who started out as that little boy became that bad man Darth Vader?" I couldn't be prouder.

A little while later, my oldest (11 yo) was asking me more about it, so I asked him, "I could give you the full story in about 20 minutes. Are you up to it?" He said he was, so I reviewed from when Anakin was "born" on Tattooine with no father to Kylo idolizing DV. He seemed to get it, too and had some of his own theories (really just being silly) about where Rey came from.

I'm raising my geek kids right!

 

You must pass on what you have learned

 

Congratulations!

 

Parenting done right!

 

I wouldn't exactly call Darth Vader a bad man, I would call him slightly messed up in the head. It is the fact that he didn't want to lose his girlfriend that made him do some bad things to try to become strong enough to keep her alive.

He was manipulated by Chancellor Palpatine into turning to the dark side. Anakin is not a bad person.

 

He choked his own wife, murdered young children and gave orders for various other atrocities as well as amassing a considerable personal body count. Anakin is very much a bad person. There are sympathetic reasons for him becoming bad, but bad he was.

 

Good for you!

I have been having moments like that with my girls whom are 8 and 10. More so with my 8 year old, as she seems to have taken a genuine and deeper interest in the movies. The 10 year old just sees them as action movies, and is kind of bored with them.

My 8 year old though seems to be interested in the Skywalker lineage, and why Anakin did this, Luke did that, and why Ben Solo killed his father. So it makes me proud and anxious, as I look forward to future conversations, like the true meaning about the cave scene in ESB.

And yes, even though I personally dislike TFA by leaps and bounds. I took my kids to see it. The 8 year old liked it, but again, the 10 year old was just bored with it. They don't know that I dislike TFA as much as I do, and they probably won't find out for a long time. It's still Star Wars, and it's allowed at least a little bit of bonding between me and them on something that is important to me, and that isn't pokemon, or teen titans, or princesses or dolls etc etc...

 

smile, thats pretty cool.

i thought that the modern generation of trekkies and starwars geeks and all the fun rivalry between them would be duplicated with avatar and ?game of thrones? maybe.
i expected that it would be the same yet different, with more modern stories as the corner stones.

your way is better, me thinks.

 

Unless you've shown your kids 4-6 then 1-3 you are guilty of child abuse...

 

Actually, I'm a fan of Machete Order. Look it up. A very logical way to get the whole thing (and not much Jar Jar).

 

Hmm, interesting. Although the Machete Order ruins the lightning surprise in Jedi. Apart from that an interesting idea.

 

Actually showing it to them in that order is the child abuse. 1-6 is the only way.

 

Child abuse? Really?

 

Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous.

 

Wow, sensitive stuff.

Apologies for any offensive caused guys, it was meant in a light-hearted manner

 

Really?

 

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Exactly - by hiding fun films about robots and space wizards from their kids, because errr...there is a kid in it and a goofy alien.[/quote]

 

Why can't heartwarming threads just stay positive without going downhill?

Anyways, great post on raising a child on star wars.

 

Awesome stuff........When I eventually have kids, I hope they enjoy delving into the immense Star Wars-universe as much as I did growing up.