I have big problems; please help me.

**Hooahguy** · 03-27-2009, 20:05

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

Your sig is worth a chuckle. Thanks.

indeed. a very funny sig. if only my friends knew who Julius Caesar was...

**Lemur** · 03-27-2009, 20:10

Originally Posted by hooahguy

indeed. a very funny sig. if only my friends knew who Julius Caesar was...

I'm already raising my son to be a terrible geek. I bought him some Roman action figures, and told him who they were. You know how little kids are; they can learn things faster than you can speak them.

He freaked out an adult who looked at the toys by saying, "This is a centurion. That's just a legionary. This is Caesar." He's five, mind you.

I am a terrible father.

**gollum** · 03-27-2009, 20:19

Originally posted by Lemur
I'm already raising my son to be a terrible geek. I bought him some Roman action figures, and told him who they were. You know how little kids are; they can learn things faster than you can speak them.

He freaked out an adult who looked at the toys by saying, "This is a centurion. That's just a legionary. This is Caesar." He's five, mind you.

I am a terrible father.

Actually pedagogically speaking the age between 3 and 8 is the best to start something - this is how these girls become World Class Professional Chess players... Their father Lazlo Polgar made a living experiment out of them in proving that *geniuses are made and not born*. This isnt exactly as it sounds, because Mr Polgar was smart enough to look for the predispositions in his daugters and when he noticed the elder one being interested in chess at an early age he made his house a full chess club (in which RFischer was often invited while in Budapest).

This has also long been observed in martial arts - the kids of headinstructors that get black belts at 12 can never be reached by other people usually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polgar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zs%C3%B3fia_Polg%C3%A1r
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar

**Prussian to the Iron** · 03-27-2009, 22:20

Originally Posted by Lemur

I'm already raising my son to be a terrible geek. I bought him some Roman action figures, and told him who they were. You know how little kids are; they can learn things faster than you can speak them.

He freaked out an adult who looked at the toys by saying, "This is a centurion. That's just a legionary. This is Caesar." He's five, mind you.

I am a terrible father.

dude, i wish you were my dad, i love that kind of stuff! if you seriously think that makes you a bad dad you are mistaken, if anything it makes you better for teaching your child something useful tat he can use in the future.

i hope to become an expert on the subject myself.

daddy can i have some please?..............

wait a sec....i have one of those! i have the first one on the page, the centurion! where do you live?

**Lemur** · 03-27-2009, 22:39

Originally Posted by John-117

wait a sec....i have one of those! i have the first one on the page, the centurion! where do you live?

Yup, I got him the centurion, the legionary, Caesar and a gladiator. The centurion is the toughest, or so my five-year-old thinks, so he stands guard by the bed while my boy sleeps. He can beat up any monsters. We talked about this.

I live in Wisconsin, but that doesn't mean anything, since I bought the toys off Amazon.

**drone** · 03-27-2009, 22:56

Originally Posted by Lemur

Yup, I got him the centurion, the legionary, Caesar and a gladiator. The centurion is the toughest, or so my five-year-old thinks, so he stands guard by the bed while my boy sleeps. He can beat up any monsters. We talked about this.

You need to teach him to say "No, I'm Spartacus" when he plays with the gladiator.

**Hax** · 03-27-2009, 22:40

i suppose ill give it another week. if its not better after the psychologist sees me then ill think more about it.

Please do; the boyfriend of a very close friend of mine commited suicide, and she and her best friend are virtually psychological wrecks at this moment (the suicide being about three months ago). People have no idea of what horrible feelings they'll leave to those that they leave behind, even if they are in a state in which they think that know what the consequences of their actions will be. Suicide is a horrible thing and it will leave enormous mental damage to those left behind.