I’ve
had a mantra since my daughter was born. It is “please be geeky, please
be geeky, please be geeky”. Over and over I chant this, hoping that it
will come true. Which just means she’s totally going to rebel and end
up being (as I shudder) a cool hipster chick. Why do I want my daughter
to be a geek? Oh, so many reasons. I won’t have to buy overpriced
designer duds, she won’t walk around looking like an underaged hooker,
I won’t have to deal with her sneaking out her window at night, and
she’ll never be invited to that high school kegger.
How do I accomplish this task? Well for a start I think I’ll need to run out and buy Marybeth Hicks book Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid’s Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World as Urban Baby
wrote, she “says today’s geek isn’t a social misfit. She’s just a good,
wholesome kid who’s not so caught up in pop culture that she lets it
define who she is. Hicks, a mother of four, advises parents on how to
raise a genuine, enthusiastic, empowered kid (GEEK):”
Click thru for five ways in which you can attempt to breed your own brainiac.
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