#sonbot

[friendsamongstars]

Starter for @enhappiyerofbrighton

A big crash could be heard in Molly’s back yard followed by the usual smoke and some fire. Immediately a large robot was seen carrying what looked like the body of a teenage boy. It froze in place, looking confused at their location.

“I’ll protect you momma daddy!” The bot looked down at who he was holding, who responded with patting the robot’s chest and smiling, just coughing from the smoke and was otherwise unharmed. “Thank you eyeball, you can put me down now.” However, the robot did not do this.

[grailbot143]

You are so method!

I adore this line. . . I have a method six year old. I'm totally going to start calling her this instead of dramatic.

Seriously, she's the most dramatic child I've ever seen. Sometimes she goes days within the same character. And she will stay in that character even if she's being reprimanded for something. Currently, she's the assistant teacher in a classroom (with a bunch of dolls as students). For 3 days now, she has gone through all the core classes plus recess and an art or pe class with them. She's spends hours doing this everyday.

Last week, she was a mom, and when her dad told her to put up her doll (her daughter) she started crying, trying to explain to him that she wasn't a doll, she was a real little girl and you can't put up a real little girl.

The boys used to slide into these random conversations where they were playing characters from tv shows or whatever without any notice. It was confusing and funny. But they wouldn't last very long.

WeebBot on the other hand, couldn't slip out of reality at all. As a matter of fact, if we would be playing pretend, she would occasionally stop to remind me that I was really her mom and she was really herself - like she was literally scared that I was believing it too much. . .

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[friendsamongstars]

(Everyone please look at this. It truly gives me seratonin everytime I think about it. )

[friendsamongstars]

“I miss my wife, Eyeball.”

“She’s in class, momma-daddy.”

[grailbot143]

I'm a Big Boy Now

And I've gotta stop saying things like I'm a Big Boy Now_!_

Is the New Ninja Squad like the big boy's ninja squad? Or maybe I missed the point entirely.

I'm not complaining, mind you, kids should embrace their childhoods as long as possible. . . just not sure what's going on, or maybe not sure what Steven thinks is going on.

I was trying to think of how my boys handled this whole getting older thing. SonBot lost very few childhood interests and gained very few adult interests. He is still a big fan of animated movies and series and Disney stuff. . . but his reading interests moved from fantasy books like Harry Potter and Eragon as a child through a much older reading level Pern novels and Sci-Fi such as Ender's Game and on to, now, mostly online fan fiction.

My other son, we'll call him SecondBot, since he's not here to stop us. . . Continued liking things in the same genres, but it got darker and darker over time. Then as a young adult, he really jumped in feet first to alot of adult themed movies, books, and tv series. He still enjoys animated movies and shows, but South Park, Boondocks and Rick & Morty are his animated go tos while he's added such shows as SuperNatural and Breaking Bad to his arsenal.

DDBot (oldest daughter) never got into childish things, but oddly her tastes still change a lot. At 8 years old, she sewed and crafted and baked. She enjoyed Science and Math and wanted to be an Astronaut. But these days, she just wants to hang out with friends and play video games (only with friends) and see how much of her skin she can cover up with the color BLACK. . . She still bakes some and I'm sure she'll return to those interests soon enough, but for now she is in a "I'm too grown up" stage for childhood whimsy and an "I'm still a kid" phase when the responsibility starts.

I imagine that LDBot (yungest daughter) will be more like SonBot, holding on to her childhood interests as long as possible.

[friendsamongstars]

( Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars And let me see what spring is like On a-Jupiter and Mars

Pose is from this art )

[friendsamongstars]

"I'm just a widdle guy!"