For the kids interested in the Titanic, I noticed that the kid's museum in Hagerstown has a model on exhibit:
http://discoverystation.org/exhibits/titanic/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 year old is watching the film right this minute (West coast). He just paused it to ask me

"Mommy, what is a one-legged prostitute?"

AAAGGHHH!!!!

A woman who does things for money with people she doesn't know, who also happens to only have one leg, kiddo.

Simple, truthful, absolutely not interesting.

My answer was a lot better than yours. I didn't post what happened in The hope of getting instructions from you.

Excuse me. I wasn't giving instructions, I was giving the response I gave to a 9 year old girl.

This is OP of the original post - from years ago! My formerly Titanic obsessed child has moved on to American Revolution and Civil War history. Or really any history, of any civilization.

My goal for this summer is to somehow get him focused on ecology/environment/biology. He'd go nuts if he realized how interconnected living things are - bugs to plants to fish to bears. I want to turn him into a little environmentalist. Seems more forward thinking that history!

Why not do both? History of the environmental movement in the U.S. Is pretty fascinating and has some drama, starting with that river that caught on fire that really got people thinking about what we were doing to the earth. Water wars too - and relevant to the CA drought. If you want critters, look at the outlawing of DDT and rebounding of raptors, or even history of beavers in the eastern U.S. All good stories and might pique his interest in our place in the world.

This is OP of the original post - from years ago! My formerly Titanic obsessed child has moved on to American Revolution and Civil War history. Or really any history, of any civilization.

My goal for this summer is to somehow get him focused on ecology/environment/biology. He'd go nuts if he realized how interconnected living things are - bugs to plants to fish to bears. I want to turn him into a little environmentalist. Seems more forward thinking that history!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 year old is watching the film right this minute (West coast). He just paused it to ask me

"Mommy, what is a one-legged prostitute?"

AAAGGHHH!!!!

A woman who does things for money with people she doesn't know, who also happens to only have one leg, kiddo.

Simple, truthful, absolutely not interesting.

My answer was a lot better than yours. I didn't post what happened in The hope of getting instructions from you.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought you were talking about the film. I was a Titanic (the film) obsessed 7-year-old back and the day.

How the hell old are you?

The movie came out almost 20 years ago people!

Anonymous wrote:My 8 year old is watching the film right this minute (West coast). He just paused it to ask me

"Mommy, what is a one-legged prostitute?"

AAAGGHHH!!!!

A woman who does things for money with people she doesn't know, who also happens to only have one leg, kiddo.

Simple, truthful, absolutely not interesting.

My 8 year old is watching the film right this minute (West coast). He just paused it to ask me

"Mommy, what is a one-legged prostitute?"

AAAGGHHH!!!!

My 7-year old son has become obsessed with JFK's and Lincoln's assassinations after reading a book about the presidents.

Anonymous wrote:I thought you were talking about the film. I was a Titanic (the film) obsessed 7-year-old back and the day.

How the hell old are you?

It's normal for kids to develop interested in specific topics. Unit studies (homeschooling method) utilizes it, both broadening the interest by drawing parallels to other similar things and by letting the child delve as deep into subject as they want.

The Titanic seems like kind of a morbid thing to be obsessed with at that age. My kids definitely have historical events they enjoy and know way, way more about than I do, but I wouldn't call them obsessions.

Anonymous wrote:I'm just wondering if there are any kindred spirits out there for my kid. He's been nuts about the Titanic since last year (kindergarten, age 5). He's now a 6 year old first grader and we're still getting Titanic books back every week from the school library.

Anyone else's kid equally obsessed? Any other examples of interesting kid obsessions? Wondering if I can move him along to another topic!

I am an adult am fascinated by the Titanic. There are lots of us out there. One of my co-worker's sons was really into it as well for a while back when he was 8/9. We used to chat about when he stopped by the office. Years later, he sent in a bunch of his Titanic books with his dad to give to me. I thought that was sweet that he remembered me.

I found a book about the Titanic when I was in second grade. I became obsessed. We went to the city library so I could get even more books. Then, in third grade, the movie came out and the obsession was over. I was SO mad that my secret was out for everyone!

I'm still fascinated by major feats of engineering. My dad was an engineer and we grew up on the Mississippi so I was familiar with locks and dams, steam power, and railroad operations growing up. I still really like bridges and machinery.

My elementary school aged daughter is obsessed with Greek mythology. She only want to read about gods, goddesses and tales of Mt Olympus. I wonder if she'll transfer over from those types of books into Percy Jackson and the like.