Comments on: When Martians Attack

By: SassyPants

SassyPants — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:51:54 +0000

You are definitely NOT a hover mom! I wonder if he would even see the “man” or whatever in the picture unless you pointed it out though. The pictures are pretty amazing and if he’s into it then he would love them. Is he going to think the rock is a man without some coaching?

By: Sleeping Mommy

Sleeping Mommy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:26:36 +0000

No it does not make you a hover mom. This is an age where they have a lot of nightmares. NO reason to add to them.

By: wafelenbak

wafelenbak — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:47:07 +0000

I don’t have the answer for you, but I will tell you that when I was a kid I was also absolutely TERRIFIED of aliens and my parents showed me “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” thinking it would make me feel better because those aliens were nice.
UH-UH! Nightmares for weeks!!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:30:49 +0000

If you REALLY want to frighten him, just hand him the business section of the paper.

I laughed at that picture because I thought the figure looked remarkably like the still shot of the famous video of bigfoot at Walnut Creek (the one where bigfoot is walking away and looking back at the photographer). That’s why we can’t find bigfoot…..he lives on Mars!

By: ~JJ!

~JJ! — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:40:16 +0000

Why scare the crap out of him for nothing?

Unless of course you’re like me and you like to provoke the crazy reactions…

So have you decided what to do yet?

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By: Karen Sugarpants

Karen Sugarpants — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:39:12 +0000

I don’t think you’re being a hover-mom. Those pictures creeped me out. If you were my Mom I’d hope you woulda warned me.

By: Kami Huyse

Kami Huyse — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:19:48 +0000

Then again, sometimes it pays to be silent. There are plenty other pics for him to look at. My husband, who is not an American and always gets our “sayings” a little wrong, always says “silver” (I know, silence is golden) when I am about to open my big mouth. There is wisdom in that.

By: Danacea

Danacea — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:13:00 +0000

This picture has been a topic of some discussion on Twitter today… ask @geosteph for the antidote! Seriously, though, kids iconise their fears; I’m sure parents do too. I find that my three-year-old responds to me showing him something and explaining it – that way his imagination can’t run riot. For the time being, anyway