[HN Gopher] The power of imagination, and other parenting lesson...
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       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...
        
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