The War over Star Wars
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011From Wednesday Mom – Janelle:
After years of obsessing over Thomas the train, Jack has moved on to another obsession: Star Wars. His enthusiasm for Star Wars far surpasses any obsession he’s ever had. He goes a little nuts even just hearing the marching band play the theme song during a football game on TV that’s playing in the background.
Jack’s Christmas list has the words, Star Wars, covered all over it. He especially loves Star Wars legos. As I mentioned before he loves to look through his catalog and relentlessly ask me how much everything costs and if its affordable. I guess it’s nice he asks. He also loves to watch the original movies. I have no problem with him watching movies. I do have a problem with him wanting to watch the movies twenty times a day. The boy can’t get enough of it.
I told Jack we have limits with certain things, one being the TV. As much as I love TV myself, there are plenty of other things to see, do, and create in our house. Today, Jack had a friend over for the afternoon and enjoyed every minute of it. Of course, they played “Star Wars” and invented their own light-saber battles and missions. After his friend left I asked Jack how much fun he had acting out his play rather than staring at something acting. He agreed. I’m hoping the War over Star Wars between the two of us ends and he can win his own battles.