When I started kicking around the idea of this list, my older son was three. I love my son, and we talk, but we didn't really have much in common. My hobbies don't translate well into kid stuff.
I love to read. I love to play video games. I love to play board games.
My son is now still getting his head around reading. It'll be a while before he figures out what a genre is and even longer to see if we have any of the same ones in common.
There are some board games you can play with kids, but they're not really fun for adults.
He really got into Minecraft about a month ago, but he just really walks around and looks at stuff. He hasn't built anything. (He got me into it, and I'm thinking about recreating Castlevania.)
Still not something I can say we really have in common.
I was at a Halloween party a few months ago, and I got talking to one of my neighbors about the list, and she saw I hadn't checked this one and she said, "Star Wars." While it's true he loves Star Wars, I'm holding back on it until he comes up to me excited about something I normally get excited. Also, he's five. It could just be a phase. I don't want to really put all my eggs in this one basket until he's a little older and I can say we definitely have something I consider lifelong in common.
However, we're going to see the Force Awakens when it opens this Friday.
I'm not sure what it will take for me to believe I'll feel we really have something in common. It's one of those things like love. You sort of know it when you feel it.
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