Adventures in Fannish Parenting

[przed]

Rosalind loves playing with the rolls from toilet paper. She especially loves putting them on her wrists. Like vambraces. So I started telling her that they were vambraces, determined that she will be the only kid in her preschool class who knows the names of parts of armour.

Tonight, I'm folding laundry and Ros is with the Sweetie getting ready for bed and I hear her shout "Daddy, look at my vambraces!"



I'm so proud.

Next step: teach her about tassets and pauldrons. Not to mention Boromir.

Comments

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

That is just too adorable!!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Isn't it, though?

[schnuffi.livejournal.com]

Heh, she's so cute. The pink pyjamas do spoil the effect a bit though *G* Maybe you should get her something in camouflage look instead *snicker*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Not only are the pyjamas pink (well, purple really), but they have kitty cats on them. Not exactly warrior garb. *g*

[kanders07.livejournal.com]

How cute. Love the pink jammies. She's adorable.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Isn't she adorable. (No, I'm not the proud mamma, why do you ask?)

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

I'm so proud.

*Nods* You're doing an excellent job - definitely teaching her the important things *bg*

[przed.livejournal.com]

The girly stuff she's going to have to figure out on her own, but for armour, martial arts and fencing strategy, I've totally got her covered.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

I am so pleased to see your parenting priorities are the right ones. The gals has a vocabulary that I don't even have - rock on, Ros!!

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm totally teaching her all the stuff I wish I'd known. And her vocabulary is coming along stunningly. (She was cracking herself up at the dinner table the other day, and only stopped laughing long enough to say "that's hilarious." The Sweetie and I were suitably impressed. After we stopped laughing.)

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Awww, bless her.

[przed.livejournal.com]

She is too much fun.

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

It looks like you've got at least two sweeties in the house! She looks very happy and excited with the whole adventure of life.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I am very lucky to have two sweeties. And yeah, Ros is, for the most part, a happy, curious child. We consider ourselves very lucky.

[sooguy.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

I guess she will be asking for some real ones once she outgrows the toilet paper rolls!

[przed.livejournal.com]

She's already asking for the real ones. I made the mistake of showing her mine, and now she's constantly asking to see them.

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

I could die from the adorableness..of you both! LOL

Thank you for sharing :D

[przed.livejournal.com]

She slays me several times a day with adorableness. *g*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Ah, she's so beautiful! So how do you and the Sweetie feel about being the parents of a future superhero? (she just has that superhero thing going!). They both look so lovely, all into the role and happyproudparent - you have such a gorgeous family!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Funny you should say that. When we were playing in the living room yesterday afternoon, she started throwing her fist in the air and saying "Super powers!" Not something we say a whole lot, so we reckon she got it from daycare. (I then confused her by putting my fist up and saying "Fight the power." It is my fondest wish that she says that at daycare some day.)

[sunray45.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Rosalind, but I have learned something new today - vambrace. Thanks.

She is such a little cutie and is learning so much from her proud parents.

I don't know whether Rosalind is very tiny or whether you have different size cardboard inside your toilet rolls. Ours here are about 1 & half inches across and about 4 inches long.

Your photos give me a lot of pleasure. :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Just doing my best to spread obscure factoids.

Our toilet rolls are the same size. It's just that Ros is very tiny. She has a cousin who is 6 to 9 months older than her, and Ros looks like a teeny elf beside her. Doesn't make her any less tough, though.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

OMG She's ADORABLE.


*puzzled* Either your child is tiny or toilet rolls are much larger on that there side of the world.

[przed.livejournal.com]

The toilet rolls are the same size. It's just that Ros is very week. (Though to be fair, she's getting close to the point where she won't be able to jam her little fists through the rolls. She's going to be very upset on that day.)

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Ah, how sweet. Darn, girl, the kidlet is sprouting! Good work on the fannish upbringing. And you know that naming the parts of a suit of armor could very well be useful one day. She might win a lot of money in a trivia contest. Or become a re-enactor.

[przed.livejournal.com]

She's definitely growing.

I figure at the very least knowing the terms for armour will come in handy in talking about The Lord of the Rings, which her mum will be inflicting on her as soon as she's old enough.

[undonne.livejournal.com]

That is way beyond cute! Our fannish friends have also raised their children in the way they should go -- most are college or post-college now and attending cons with us and chairing panels and even creating cons. :beams: Now for the third generation... Grand-fans!

[przed.livejournal.com]

I just want to raise her to be interesting and have passions. If that leads her to fandom, so much the better. *g*

[andreathelion.livejournal.com]

LOL, how cute :)
... and I had to google for vambraces, now I know *g*
Well done with your fannish parenting and thank you for sharing!

[przed.livejournal.com]

and I had to google for vambraces

See, that's how I know you're not a Lord of the Rings fan. *g*

Lurv your icon!

[gulffire.livejournal.com]

This kid is the bomb! I love seeing what she's up to. Not so much realizing that a child of her tender years learned what vambraces are before I did. I am chagrined but enchanted. :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

She is indeed the bomb.

I am chagrined but enchanted. :)

Too be fair, you didn't have a armour-obsessed mom like me raising you. *g*

Hey, are you going to MW this year? Please say yes!

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

Brilliant children creep me out... I may have to defreind you if she composes her first symphony before she's five. ;-)

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'll be happy if she's keeping time properly and sort of singing in tune by five. *g*

[green-key.livejournal.com]

Someday she'll win big money on Jeopardy by recognizing her vambraces! Toooooo cute.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Or she'll become a medievalist scholar. (Jeopardy would definitely be more lucrative.*g*)