[HN Gopher] The power of imagination, and other parenting lesson... ___________________________________________________________________ The power of imagination, and other parenting lessons from Calvin and Hobbes Author : thunderbong Score : 28 points Date : 2021-03-13 06:32 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.washingtonpost.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.washingtonpost.com) | wiredfool wrote: | In my house, I have to emphasize: Calvin is not a role model. | Except for snowmen, that is ok. | | The kids have read and reread the box set, so I feel like | something is going ok with the whole knowledge transfer thing. | ur-whale wrote: | https://archive.is/pWO8P | jkepler wrote: | Thanks for the link! | chmod600 wrote: | Hobbes is an imaginary friend, an alter ego, a conscience, and a | physical toy. It seems weird to make him a divide between parents | and children. And saying "Hobbes is real to Calvin" is a | meaningless platitude. | aerovistae wrote: | Personally, and this is just me, I stopped reading this article | the second the author said that the comic was too inappropriate | for their child and that it could deserve an R-rating for how | snowmen are treated. That might be the single most ridiculous | thing I've ever read in my life. | | I don't know what they were going to go on to say, and the fact | that they were writing an article about this in the paper implies | that they're clearly a big fan of the comic, but I just couldn't | read past that sentence. | surround wrote: | "The violence Calvin inflicts on snowmen could alone earn it an | R rating" sounds toungue-in-cheek to me. Regardless, the author | immediately it was a "classic parenting mistake" in the next | sentence, and lets their kid read the books. | sp332 wrote: | I mean, I get it. Blood and guts and (in another strip) | shrunken heads with the mouths sown shut... | 70rd wrote: | It was clearly tongue-in-cheek... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-14 23:00 UTC)