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Post by TripleMerc on Apr 3, 2007 21:06:19 GMT -5
As long as he isn't dressing like Melina, and prancing around like Torrie Wilson, he is fine. What's wrong with that?
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Post by CrazySting on Apr 3, 2007 21:18:51 GMT -5
I thought this was going to be a thread about how your son was in jail or something.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Apr 3, 2007 21:23:48 GMT -5
I like Cena, so if you want the kid to grow up resembling a dude like me, stay the course.. otherwise you might need to do somethin drastic. Your call really.
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Post by dannytanner on Apr 3, 2007 21:46:31 GMT -5
I wouldn't let my son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandchild, etc, watch wrestling unless the shows they watch are from the '80's. Seriously, no child should be watching the WWE. Hell, no adults either.
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Post by The"threadicidal"bristolspapa on Apr 3, 2007 22:22:32 GMT -5
Show him Hard Gay and he will forget Cena. I am dead serious about this, he is very popular with the kids. Kids go crazy for hard gay. This needs to be a ytmnd.
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Post by Psy on Apr 3, 2007 22:29:36 GMT -5
You should buy him a Cena action figure and then burn it in front of him if he doesn't do his chores. A limb at a time. But tell him it's a voodoo doll so that Cena feels the pain, and that you're e-mailing him and letting him know that his suffering is because your son can't clean his room properly.
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Post by TripleMerc on Apr 3, 2007 22:40:46 GMT -5
That's evil. And awesome at the same time.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 3, 2007 22:53:29 GMT -5
It's not like we weren't marking out for the mega faces as kids. I know that there were some people that were heel lovers from the start but the vast majority of us liked what ever major face early on despite what his workrate was or any of that stuff. I was a Hulkamanic.
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Post by Toom E. Guci on Apr 3, 2007 23:16:26 GMT -5
Well, Elizabeth does the RVD thumb pointing, "You Can't See Me", & knows the names of most of the superstars she sees on tv. And she is your son's age.
Not to mention she has been to multiple indy shows & has met Frankie Kazarian, Ron Simmons, & Hillbilly Jim.
So, I think we're doing good parenting wolfpack.
And my daughter did pretend to spit an apple in my face via carlito once.
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Post by MoleMan on Apr 4, 2007 0:48:16 GMT -5
I suggest you show him Hard Knox: The Chris Benoit Story, and before long he'll quit idolizing that poseur, and start doing danergous submission holds, diving headbutts, and suplexes.
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Post by HoagieWithPastrami on Apr 4, 2007 1:48:56 GMT -5
I've tried to be a good mom and limit his wrestling exposure. Violent and all. But he's caught bits and pieces of it. I even *gasp* got him a Rey Mysterio action figure for Xmas. Well, the boy is very into John Cena. Yeah. I know I know.. it's terrible ! He does the "can't see me" thing and yells "the champ is here" when he sees Cena. I figure, fine.. just don't let him watch for a while right ? So the hockey game is on and between plays they have the music piped into the arena. What's playig ? Cena's entrance song. My child (5 years old) stops playing with his train track, looks at the TV and says "that's John Cena's song" I think I liked it better when he was doing flying headbutts off the top of the sofa and yelling "Chris Benoit" on his way down Eh, Cena's geared towards kids anyways. As long as he was rooting for the Penguins in that hockey game, you're good.
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Post by Erik Majorwitz on Apr 4, 2007 3:43:08 GMT -5
Wait time out.... Wolfie is a mom? I'm getting old...or just not paying attention.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Apr 4, 2007 6:26:54 GMT -5
I've tried to be a good mom and limit his wrestling exposure. Violent and all. But he's caught bits and pieces of it. I even *gasp* got him a Rey Mysterio action figure for Xmas. Well, the boy is very into John Cena. Yeah. I know I know.. it's terrible ! He does the "can't see me" thing and yells "the champ is here" when he sees Cena. I figure, fine.. just don't let him watch for a while right ? So the hockey game is on and between plays they have the music piped into the arena. What's playig ? Cena's entrance song. My child (5 years old) stops playing with his train track, looks at the TV and says "that's John Cena's song" I think I liked it better when he was doing flying headbutts off the top of the sofa and yelling "Chris Benoit" on his way down Is this the same one that saw the Spirit Squad one night and said he wanted to be like them?
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Apr 4, 2007 7:38:47 GMT -5
Honestly I've never understood the concept of not letting kids watch something. Some of the earliest movies I remember watching are R-rated horror, and I was watching wrestling since I was 5. Somehow I have never been in serious trouble, have no criminal record, have never tried any drugs, never killed, raped, or piledriven someone through a table.
It's all about explaining to the kid the difference between fantasy and reality, and what is and is not acceptable in the real world.
With that said, tell him John Cena tried to kill Santa Claus.
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Post by Brain Of F'n J on Apr 4, 2007 7:51:27 GMT -5
You're only a mark once. You only get to enjoy wrestling on THAT level for a short period of time before the veil gets torn back.
Let him like Cena. It's not hurting anyone.
Jed Shaffer ~If he was yelling NECRO BUTCHER~!, then I'd be scared.
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Post by dannytanner on Apr 4, 2007 8:25:52 GMT -5
The WWE content is not for kids. It was in the '80's and from 1990-1994 or so, but not now. I wouldn't let my daughter watch it, that's for sure. Son maybe, but not the current product. When I was a kid, my friends and I would be trying to imitate Hogan, Junkyard Dog, and guys like that. Pretty harmless stuff. Nowadays it's telling others to suck it, flipping them off, and god knows what else. Actually, emulating Cena is probably the safest thing to do for a kid, so you should be proud he's only doing that, and not spray painting "DX" on other people's cars.
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Apr 4, 2007 8:32:38 GMT -5
The WWE content is not for kids. It was in the '80's and from 1990-1994 or so, but not now. I wouldn't let my daughter watch it, that's for sure. Son maybe, but not the current product. When I was a kid, my friends and I would be trying to imitate Hogan, Junkyard Dog, and guys like that. Pretty harmless stuff. Nowadays it's telling others to suck it, flipping them off, and god knows what else. Actually, emulating Cena is probably the safest thing to do for a kid, so you should be proud he's only doing that, and not spray painting "DX" on other people's cars. Yeah I'll admit the Hulkamania years were far more family friendly, but, I could nitpick some things from that era too. Spraying a harmfull substance in someone's eyes to blind them? (Martel/Roberts) Your top babyfaces brutalizing women? (Both Warrior and Hogan put their hands on Sherri constantly) I even remember heels like Bad News Brown insinuating that Elizabeth was doing sexual favors for Jack Tunney to get special treatment for Hogan and Savage......you had a corrupt, violent cop for hire (Bossman), a stereotypical black pimp who's music video showed close ups of his lips eating fried chicken (Slick)..... But, yeah. Much less fat, oily men in thongs with jiggly penises back then.
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Post by amsiraK on Apr 4, 2007 8:54:33 GMT -5
Yeah, but it was a cartoon back then. Even if we were all marks, we knew that Kamala wasn't really a headhunter.
I don't mind the violence as much. Boys wrestle each other. My son and my husband are almost constantly at each other playfighting (which will be my husband's undoing when our already-big-for-his-age son hits puberty). But with the sexual content, I'm not ready to stick a 5 year old in front of it. The worst we saw when we were little was George Steele chasing Miss Elizabeth in a pageant gown. I'm not so sure I want my kid experiencing Vince McMahon's obsession with his own genitals.
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on Apr 4, 2007 9:03:55 GMT -5
Yeah, but it was a cartoon back then. Even if we were all marks, we knew that Kamala wasn't really a headhunter. I don't mind the violence as much. Boys wrestle each other. My son and my husband are almost constantly at each other playfighting (which will be my husband's undoing when our already-big-for-his-age son hits puberty). But with the sexual content, I'm not ready to stick a 5 year old in front of it. The worst we saw when we were little was George Steele chasing Miss Elizabeth in a pageant gown. I'm not so sure I want my kid experiencing Vince McMahon's obsession with his own genitals. Surely you jest, you don't think Kamala was captured at the risk of life and limb from deepest, darkest, Uganda?! Ha. You tell ME who's the mark, here, lady. ;D
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Post by amsiraK on Apr 4, 2007 9:08:46 GMT -5
Oh, of course he was. Just like Umaga was wrested from the savage island of Samoa... and then convinced to not eat people and just wrestle instead. ;D
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