Your Parents and Cubing

My parents are absolutely neutral. My dad doesnt like when I buy cubes or when I spend 3+ hours on my computer. He says he reads the forums, which is kinda cool. Hi there if you are reading now!

Not really allowed to take cubes anywhere apart from my room.
 
Well for me my parents encourage me in cubing becasuse I'm one of the minorities that can solve the rubiks cube.I'm a Malay.I don't have any relatives that can solve the the cube. They are amazed by my ability.Note that I am the fastest speedcuber in my school.My GF does not like me cubing.she says do something else better.The speedcubers in my school are all taught by me and that's how I got popular!!!!!!
 
when i didn't live at home i cubed loads, now i have had to move back in with my parents for a few months, i have barely touched cubes. they hate the noise, think it's a waste of money (they don't outright say it but make suggestions that it is), don't understand why i need so many cubes and think it's actually some kind of mental problem to have a hobby such as cubing.

on the other hand they are always keen for me to show people or mention it in conversation. they've shown my youtube to relations and stuff so they can't hate it that much. i also got some cubing related plane tickets for christmas :) that might just be to get rid of me for the weekend though...

once i've got my own place again i'm sure it'll be easier to cube. those of you living at home still, i really feel your pain.
 
I actually have my parents to thank for getting me into cubing.

During the time my mother was expecting me (1981), the cube was just becoming available for sale in Belgium and she cubed lots during that period. My parents were avid puzzle collectors and we've always had a big box full of twisty and other puzzles (Babylon tower, Hungarian rings,...) in our living room.

The apple didn't fall far from the tree. ;)

My father used to go with me to my first few tournaments. He competed in the 2004 European championships, in which I finished first place and he finished in the penultimate place :p
http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2004VAND02
 
My brother thinks its lame. My parents thought it was just noisy, but they were just neutral.

When I first brought my cube to school, my friends were amazed. But then, after a while, they started to get bored too.

In fact, when we were selecting our class rules, they chose 'no rubicks cube'(direct quotation) as one of them, as it was the most pointless. Well, it was at least better than 'No talking' and they had to chose five rules.
 
ImNOTnoob said:
My brother thinks its lame. My parents thought it was just noisy, but they were just neutral.

When I first brought my cube to school, my friends were amazed. But then, after a while, they started to get bored too.

In fact, when we were selecting our class rules, they chose 'no rubicks cube'(direct quotation) as one of them, as it was the most pointless. Well, it was at least better than 'No talking' and they had to chose five rules.
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cool, you have 5 'class rules' and one of them is specific to the rubik's cube???

must be popular in your school for them to make it a 'rule'
 
My parents dont really care as long as my grades are up. I cube, but ill drop it to go play sports or for homework as those are my priorities. I taught MANY people at my school in the past month with more to come. I started it up at my school and in a month there are like 5 or 6 others carrying rubiks cubes around haha.

My parents just dont like the clicking noise too much so i dont speedcube near them
 
Haha, a lot of these stories just sum up what my situation is. My dad encourages me, and my mom doesn't really care, but she know I really like it, so she is fine with it.
 
My parents think I'm weird anyway, so they really don't care what I do anymore. When I first started pen spinning they thought I was being dumb, and then when they realized that my pen collection was upwards of 200 pens, they kinda raged a bit, but have gotten used to it.
I think that might be why they really don't care if I have a ton of Rubik's Cubes scattered around the house and hear the clicking of the cubes.

My mom tells me that it's cool I can solve it so quickly, but then compares me to world record times (obvious Asian parent thing to do) and tells me I'm crap.
 
tecnikal said:
My mom back when the cube was first released had one and she would always rush her homework just to play with her cube. Its not amazing but she managed to get sub one minute with her own method (or maybe some current method popularized by people now).

My mom says i do the cube too often and i should do my homework. Funny thing is, i cube when i do math homework.

"Do your math homework"
*Grabs cube*
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I don't see the "funny" part. *searches "funny thing":p*
 
My dad is maybe 55% supportive but 45% not supportive. Like he is cool with me wanting to go to Singapore Open(I live in Malaysia) and after that one night when he suddenly talked to me about cubing and I let him browse through the WCA site and he was quite amazed that if I went to the competition I have a good chance of getting a medal or even winning.
 
My parents are afraid of their credit card number being stolen every time I try to order something off the internet. I tell them, "It's Paypal, they wn't steal the number."

My mom hates me buying duplicates (I had an Eastsheen 5x5 and I really needed a V-Cube 5 because the eastsheen was VERY loose. She's like, "You already have a 5x5."
 
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