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Anti-Space Mom with Pro-Space Kids

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
December 13, 2009
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Mom, the Eagle Has Landed!, Slate
“… And yet my boys are in love. They ask for library books about outer space. They had a DVD of the moon landing. They go to the local planetarium. They recite facts about planetary gasses and burned-up stars and black holes and something else called a white hole. “Mom, did you know?” they ask before launching into a minilecture. I never do. Nor, if I’m honest, do I care to find out. The other day, Eli interrupted himself in the middle of a shooting star explanation and said, sagely, “Mom, sometimes you don’t really listen to me.” This leaves me with a guilty question: What do you do when your children’s interests don’t match your own? Do you do your utmost to cultivate genuine enthusiasm and expertise? Do you fake it? Or do you keep the faith with your own passions, figuring you’re teaching a lesson about assertion of selfhood and independence?”

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.