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10 year old son loves "professional" wrestling...I can't stand it...
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My son goes to a public school and pro. wrestling is big among his peers. He watches it every Friday night, wants to go to the live matches and has wrestling DVD's and video games. Problem is, I can't stand it because of all the violence and those bodies--they must be steroid induced. We have allowed him this interest thinking that if we forbid it, that will feed the fascination. We try to give him a balance of activities and he is now on a recreational wrestling team, but I just wonder if all of this is an issue that anyone else has dealt with. ( I was raised in a family of all girls so have no clue whether many boys go through this phase and my husband seems to think this is normal.)
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Anonymous
| At some point he will outgrow it. I swear. |
Anonymous
| When the Chris Benoit incident happened, my then 8 year old son lost all interest. Imagine my depression when my now ten year old has begun looking for it on the channels again. |
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| hmmm. My DH is very into pro-fighting...he's studied martial arts his whole life. He says there are basically there are two types of fighters: the hot-headed steroided types, and then there are the ones who study very traditionally and are all about respect, honor, etc. If your DS is really into wrestling, you might introduce him to a traditional style martial arts that incorporates ground-fighting technique but also teaches self-control, discipline, etc., such as Aikido. It could be a good way for him to improve concentration, physical fitness, and he would learn how to protect himself. |
Anonymous
UGH!! I feel your pain. My 7 yr old son is obssessed with NASCAR and I am deeply appalled but can no longer live in denial. I am so ashamed.  He is in every other respect a great, smart, polished boy with excellent manners. He reads good books, is academically successful, plays a musical instrument brilliantly, attends a great private school, but I guess he just has plebian taste in entertainment. Please, please, please let him grow out of it. My husband thinks its hilarious. Oh... he is also not alone amongst his 2nd grade friends in loving NASCAR. Ugh!!! 
(p.s. this is somewhat (only somewhat) tongue in cheek you know... :wink 
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Anonymous
don't know about that . . . My 80-something Italian grandmother used to watch it faithfully. |
Anonymous
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My son is 10, has been obsessed with wrestling (like wwe) for about 10 month now. I can not stand it! Naturally, he is some what aggressive, and this wrestling only makes things worst. I tried everything from blocking the channels on TV and illuminating all the wrestling video games (he tryeded from his classmates) to discussing what is so attractive to him and explaining that it is just a show. At first, I did not wanted to make a big deal out of it to bring even more interest. Well, it did NOT work. Now he is all about wrestling. I talk top some friends who have grown children... They advise to sign him up for a real wrestling. The problem is, I can not found any for 10 years old. I will keep looking...
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Anonymous
| Apparently St Alban's has a wrestling program for young boys and its free, I think. |
Anonymous
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Ok. Confession time. I actually went through a pro-wrestling phase when I was about your son's age. I have no explanation because none of my friends (at that age, exclusively girls) were even aware of it. I think I discovered it one Saturday morning on TV and became obsessed for a year or two. It was definitely just a phase for me.
My parents reacted very differently. My dad got a kick out of it, and even took me to a few WWF matches. (I can't descibe how excited I was when he came home with tickets. And to be clear, he was NOT a wrestling fan. He thought the whole thing was pretty ridiculous.) My mother was (and still is) quite mortified that I went through this stage. She would criticize it and my interest in it constantly. She actually brought up her "embarassment" over this a few months ago, 25 years later!! (The parental dynamics involved there are best suited for another thread...) Anyway, it sounds like you're taking the right approach of keeping a balance. I do think it is a phase that passes in most cases, and exposing him to some formal martial arts training also sounds like a potentially good idea. Until my dad passed away, we'd always joke about those "matches" we attended, and I have some really great memories of spending that time with him. Talk about a unique father-daughter bonding experience! And I think I turned out okay. I still went on to college. I am gainfully employed, and I have a wonderful husband and son. Life's good. |
Anonymous
Thanks for sharing this wonderful story! Your Dad sounds like he was a great guy. |
Anonymous
We won't let our kids watch it, but my husband loves the women strip each other's clothes off 
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