Excuses to play with nifty toys...
Nov. 27th, 2011 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmuppetI think anyone who knows me knows that regular interactions with Kidlet are in part a giant excuse to play with all the cool stuff I like anyway, and a chance to share it with other people (of various sizes) who might also love it.
One of the things I was talking about to both Chad and my Mom is why I react to the kids in my life the way I do. On some level I never cease being aware that I'm very likely "the kind of people" many people want to "protect" their children from. In the cases where I can feel comfortable that that's not the case, it allows me to just relax and enjoy interacting with the kids. Although I don't think I'm cut-out for full-time parenting, part-time kiddo-company is something I really enjoy.
I never grew out of enjoying kids' stuff; having two substantially younger brothers (4 1/2 years and 11 years younger) helped feed that through my teens (when everyone else switched to soap operas I stayed with the cartoons), but no one had to twist my arm. I still follow SFF for kids and young adults, I still watch cartoons (Boomerang is my prefered "background chatter" channel), I still intermittently reread my childhood books. I amassed further boxes of toys through college (there are at least three trunks of them), and happily reclaimed the bins of childhood toys my parents had kept. Hell, my username is Moominmuppet, directly taken from two of my favorite childhood series.
I like things cheerful and brightly colored. I think it's part of how I balance out trying to maintain awareness of the absolute shit that happens in the world. I don't want more depressing stuff from my play and fiction. Plus, silliness and surreality make me very happy, and tend to appear in abundance in kids' media.
One of the things I was talking about to both Chad and my Mom is why I react to the kids in my life the way I do. On some level I never cease being aware that I'm very likely "the kind of people" many people want to "protect" their children from. In the cases where I can feel comfortable that that's not the case, it allows me to just relax and enjoy interacting with the kids. Although I don't think I'm cut-out for full-time parenting, part-time kiddo-company is something I really enjoy.
I never grew out of enjoying kids' stuff; having two substantially younger brothers (4 1/2 years and 11 years younger) helped feed that through my teens (when everyone else switched to soap operas I stayed with the cartoons), but no one had to twist my arm. I still follow SFF for kids and young adults, I still watch cartoons (Boomerang is my prefered "background chatter" channel), I still intermittently reread my childhood books. I amassed further boxes of toys through college (there are at least three trunks of them), and happily reclaimed the bins of childhood toys my parents had kept. Hell, my username is Moominmuppet, directly taken from two of my favorite childhood series.
I like things cheerful and brightly colored. I think it's part of how I balance out trying to maintain awareness of the absolute shit that happens in the world. I don't want more depressing stuff from my play and fiction. Plus, silliness and surreality make me very happy, and tend to appear in abundance in kids' media.
