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Friday, December 4, 2009

5 Ways to Raise A Geek

 
I’ve had a mantra since my daughter was born. It is “please be geeky, please be geeky, please be geekyâ€. 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.
 
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  • 2 Damn Defiant's Avatar
    Posted by 2 Damn Defiant Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:33pm PDT

    make her watch educational nerdy stuff like discovery science,learning channel,nat geographic, star trek(ds9 preferably), all the discovery channels: health,military,etc. get her some comics, this oughta het that little brain of hers in overdrive and it DOES seem like (at least to me) that geeks are the ones that MAKE something of themselves!! if she grows up "normal" she might just end up another statistic young,pregnant with a worthless boyfriend!! lol just some suggestions

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  • Annie and Specialist Of The US Army's Avatar
    Posted by Annie and Specialist Of The US Army Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:19pm PDT

    What is wrong with this person that wrote this?

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