# My kid is acting seriously weird **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794 "2008-01-09T00:20:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/21 "2008-01-09T18:16:33Z")
I know this might seem to be a radical idea, but have you thought to ask him what is going on? Don’t be accusatory about it or anything, but just tell him you have noticed some wonderful changes over the past few days and are wondering what might have caused them. See what he says. It might be as insignificant as he made a new years resolution or as big as he stole the neighbors car and wrecked it outside of town, but he might tell you what is going on when confronted with the obviousness of the situation at hand. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/22 "2008-01-09T18:17:46Z")
[QUOTE=carlotta] Then, he did his homework without prompting. Then did some extra homework (teacher gives them a packet at the beginning of each week) [/QUOTE] Is [this](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0108082teacher1.html) his teacher? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/23 "2008-01-10T01:08:39Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] Is [this](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0108082teacher1.html) his teacher? [/QUOTE] I was thinking more along [these](http://www.movieactors.com/freezes1/KindergardenCop16.jpeg) lines. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/24 "2008-01-10T01:14:40Z")
I take it that you haven’t asked him what’s going on. That would show that you recognize the change and that you like it. He may change just because of it. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/25 "2008-01-10T11:22:55Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash] Check for pods. [/QUOTE] S’cuse my ignorance and all, but what are pods? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/26 "2008-01-10T11:45:04Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] S’cuse my ignorance and all, but what are pods? [/QUOTE] Nothing. Nothing at all. Please return to your homes. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/27 "2008-01-10T12:07:15Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] S’cuse my ignorance and all, but what are pods? [/QUOTE] [They’re here already! You’re next!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/28 "2008-01-10T12:23:29Z")
Ah, thankyews. I thought ‘pods’ might have been a euphemism for tapeworm that causes behavioural problems in kids sometimes. I R Enlightened. Mucho gratsias. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/29 "2008-01-10T12:34:38Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] I thought ‘pods’ might have been a euphemism for tapeworm that causes behavioural problems in kids sometimes. [/QUOTE] _snerk_ That’s as good a theory as any. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/30 "2008-01-10T13:02:57Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] Did you ever see the Calvin & Hobbes series where Calvin added an ethicator to his duplicator? Look for a large cardboard box in his room. [/QUOTE] Perhaps you beat me to the reference, but you didn’t [beat me](http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch-img/ch910318.gif) [to](http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch-img/ch910319.gif) [the](http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch-img/ch910320.gif) [link!](http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch-img/ch910321.gif) Yes, I’d be looking for a cardboard box with a large arrow on it that says “Good/Evil”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/31 "2008-01-10T14:43:22Z")
[QUOTE=carlotta] ok, he asked me for something. A white t-shirt and a pair of jeans :dubious: [/QUOTE] He’s sleeping with Olivia Newton-John. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/32 "2008-01-10T16:57:49Z")
Was the moon full on the 8th? That’s the evening my 10 year old son asked me at 8:30 pm if it was alright if he went to bed early. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/33 "2008-01-10T17:11:57Z")
[QUOTE=gwendee] Was the moon full on the 8th? [/QUOTE] [Exactly the opposite- the moon was new on the 8th.](http://www.tutiempo.net/en/moon/phases.htm) ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/34 "2008-01-10T17:15:31Z")
[QUOTE=gwendee] Was the moon full on the 8th? That’s the evening my 10 year old son asked me at 8:30 pm if it was alright if he went to bed early. [/QUOTE] Ha! That was also the night my daughter told me that she didn’t want a cookie after dinner because eating sugar at night disrupts her ability to fall asleep. I’m glad it’s not just my household. ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/35 "2008-01-11T22:16:51Z")
so, he’s pretty much back to normal, in fact he even said he hated me this morning when I said he had to turn off the video game so we could get to the bus stop on the time. (He was bitterly disappointed, thinking, inexplicably, that he had gotten up at six am instead of seven thirty) sigh. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/36 "2008-01-12T04:00:56Z")
It could’ve been a Brainslug… you didn’t see any squidgy greenish blob attached to his skull did you? did-he-speak-in-a-flat-monotone-voice-and-refer-to-himself-in-the-third-person? perhaps you switched to a Garlic-based shampoo without knowing it and it just shriveled up… ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/37 "2008-01-12T05:25:56Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] Cue the Byrd’s version of _Turn! Turn! Turn!_ and cue Fred Savage’s voiceover. _That was the day I first saw Winnie…_ [/QUOTE] Perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/38 "2008-01-12T09:15:58Z")
[QUOTE=carlotta] so, he’s pretty much back to normal, in fact he even said he hated me this morning when I said he had to turn off the video game so we could get to the bus stop on the time. (He was bitterly disappointed, thinking, inexplicably, that he had gotten up at six am instead of seven thirty) sigh. [/QUOTE] He must have remembered that Christmas is over for another year, and that Santa’s taking a nap. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794/39 "2008-01-12T13:26:07Z")
[QUOTE=carlotta] so, he’s pretty much back to normal, in fact he even said he hated me this morning when I said he had to turn off the video game so we could get to the bus stop on the time. (He was bitterly disappointed, thinking, inexplicably, that he had gotten up at six am instead of seven thirty) sigh. [/QUOTE] Whew! You dodged that bullet! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-kid-is-acting-seriously-weird/432794.md?page=1)