Your Parents and Cubing

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My parents hate the idea of cubing. They are always telling me, "Isn't there something better to do than wasting your time on that thing?" They say everyone else at my school doesn't waste their time doing things like that. Then I get really mad inside, because pretty much everyone I know wastes their time playing video games and watching "dirty videos". It seems like I "waste my time a lot better than many people my age do. I told them this once, and they said that it wasn't true, that people don't really play video games any more.
Sometime they tell my how much better I was back before I started cubing again. I gave up a stupid internet game to start cubing. I spent anywhere from 5-6 hours a day on it. And now they are telling me how much better that was?
And the idea of have 5 cubes, and still wanting more, they just can't grasp the concept.
And whenever I do more than 20 solves at a time, they get really mad and send me to my room. So whenever they go away, like right now, I do some serious cubing.

So, yea, my parents hate cubing.
 
it's not as if my parents have banned it, but they don't go out of their way to be "encouraging," either. as Sa967St said, "it's just another weird thing i'm into." however, they don't understand why i need "so many" cubes. i've tried to explain to them that they are all different types, but it just doesn't sink in. also, they still see it as "a game," rather than as a competitive activity -- dare i call it a sport??
 
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finalfantasy2012 said:
...Oh by the way I'm the fastest cuber in my school...
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I'm the only cuber in my school =b I've taught a junior high (sorta) friend how to solve it... but I'm not in junior high... other than that, I only know of two highschoolers who cube...

I pwn them all... except one of the high schoolers... we're about even =)
 
Yah, my parents encourage me a lot. Without them I couldn't get any cubes besides storeboughts, so its quiet good. Sometimes they get annoyed, but that doesn't happen very often, so its cool!!


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toast said:
James Kobel said:
...I would tell them "better me cubing than doing drugs".
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That's what I say, but not towards my parents, they support my cubing, but to the other adults who ask my parents why they let me cube. They think it's a waste of time.
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Me too, I say: Would it be better if I'd do drugs and stay out whole night??
 
My parents don't go against it, but they don't support it either. My dad used it to his advantage, saying that they'll buy cubes, but I need to provide the money. So my parents are more proud of me for making a lot of money really fast than they are with seeing me solve a cube. Oh yeah my teachers seem to think of the same way they think of Ipod's or cell phones (If they see it, it's confiscated)
 
My parents aren't really against it. They don't support it, though. My dad thinks it's silly. He makes jokes about it, like "Go to your room, your cubes might run away" But he's not the one paying for them anyway, so he can't take them away from me.
 
lol my dad i guess doesnt really care. when i first started i was getting like 1:30 min and my dad said your not good enough untill you get under 1min.
Then i finally get under 1 min and hes like your still slow not good enough. lol
My mom is always like why do you need so much cubes cant you just stick two 1 kind of each cube and not have doubles.(mostly refering to my 3x3 becuase i ordered 10 at a time lmao). so yea my parents are just mehh with me and cubeing there always like if you do good in school we will buy you cubes. They use to say do good in school we will buy you anything. but that was a lie lol
 
Well being 21, my dad thinks that I'm regressing into a child. My mom grew up in the 80s so she saw the big craze, and likes to show me off to her friends when I'm around. My girlfriend thinks I should be saving my money because we are about to move into an apartment together and we have bills. I only need to buy the V-Cube set and then I'll be done with buying cubes for a while. My brother is the one that got me into cubing because i couldn't let him be better than me at something, but now he thinks I cube too much.
 
byu said:
My school has so many cubers that a natural start to science class would be: "Please put away your phones and cubes and get out a pencil"
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OMGOMG!!! I want to go a school like that :D !!! what school is it? :D
aznmortalx said:
finalfantasy2012 said:
...Oh by the way I'm the fastest cuber in my school...
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I'm the only cuber in my school =b I've taught a junior high (sorta) friend how to solve it... but I'm not in junior high... other than that, I only know of two highschoolers who cube...

I pwn them all... except one of the high schoolers... we're about even =)
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Don't worry. Or school has.. umm... like 4 cubers? Me, My 2 friends and one girl who is not really into it anymore. I pwn them all. Few years ago there was a guy in my school (I didn't know him) whose record was 16 sec. But he did it only because his classmates were betting on him. He had 16 sec like once and his average was always above 20. The 16 was very lucky and his second time (from the best) was above 20. I HAVE TO BEAT HIM!!!
soccerking813 said:
Sorry for the bump, but I wanted to post here.

My parents hate the idea of cubing. They are always telling me, "Isn't there something better to do than wasting your time on that thing?" They say everyone else at my school doesn't waste their time doing things like that. Then I get really mad inside, because pretty much everyone I know wastes their time playing video games and watching "dirty videos". It seems like I "waste my time a lot better than many people my age do. I told them this once, and they said that it wasn't true, that people don't really play video games any more.
Sometime they tell my how much better I was back before I started cubing again. I gave up a stupid internet game to start cubing. I spent anywhere from 5-6 hours a day on it. And now they are telling me how much better that was?
And the idea of have 5 cubes, and still wanting more, they just can't grasp the concept.
And whenever I do more than 20 solves at a time, they get really mad and send me to my room. So whenever they go away, like right now, I do some serious cubing.

So, yea, my parents hate cubing.
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TOTAL IDIOTS!! Welcome to the club. I have only 3 cubes (One is a good cube from Estonians only shop what sells them, Other is my mom's old one (soviet) and she thinks that it's: (quote) SO good cube! It's better than the now days cubes. and the third is a keychain... totally pointless thing. My mom bought it for 10 eek-s (about 0,8-0,9 dollars)).

They are so mad at me when I say something about buying a new cube and more mad when I want to buy a DIY from dx:( Every time I'm learning fridrich they say: Haven't you got something better to do?

I guess I'll never get any WCA competition.
 
No one cares as long as I keep my grades up and the noise down at night.

"they said that it wasn't true, that people don't really play video games any more."

That's why it's an industry of more than $9.5 Billion a year (2007 stats) just in the US...

Hakan said:
My parents aren't really against it. They don't support it, though. My dad thinks it's silly. He makes jokes about it, like "Go to your room, your cubes might run away" But he's not the one paying for them anyway, so he can't take them away from me.
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You still live with them, so I think they can...
 
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my family really likes rubiks cube and also penspinning they think that its pretty cool and good for the fingers.
My mother also was a speedcuber so she says how they "pimped" their cube
but the bad thing is she doesnt how to solve it anymore :D.
Sometimes they are making videos of me doing some stuff to show it some friends -> lol.
 
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