Your Parents and Cubing

My parents were fine when I just started, and they were excited because I could solve the cube fast.
But, after a while they realized that I practiced a lot. And they took all my cubes of me.
So I secretly bought another budget cube and I solve it silently in my room.
 
My whole family is cool with it, my dad just doesn't get why I need so many cubes. "But you said that that cube was the best! Why do you need another one?"
My friends are just like, "Oh, there he goes again," but when I started cubing (3rd grade) I kinda became one of the most popular people in my grade.
 
In a country that wants to make every person an engineer, I had a hard road first.
Before cubing, I was into playing chess, which also my parents opposed as you cannot make a living out of it unless you become the best, and as an engineer my life will be predictable to them and they can expect a decent salary even if I am ordinary at work.

It was only after 3 years of my speedcubing journey that my parents realised that I am deaf to this advise of dropping the sport of cubing.
Today they stay mum on the topic, and panic a lot when I announce that I will be going to another competition. They also do not like that I spend money on travelling to cubecomps, since I should save money , which I find it impossible to do given my young age, and the millions of things I want to explore.

In short, cubing in India is difficult, most kids quite cubing after 1-2 years, after their parents realise that this kid is getting obsessed with this activity, and the fear that they have, that he will not become an engineer and make engines, lol.
 
My mother and late father both were initially unaware, but then extremely supportive of the hobby, especially so when they saw the 'fruits of the labor' so to speak. Me making, uploading, and building my YouTube channel to a size they thought was respectable was a goal of mine, and their friends emailing them to say "I saw your son on youtube" was a nail in the coffin. My mother viewed it as a 'fun hobby' to keep my brain engaged and to keep me from straying too far away from a good, moral, hard-working path, and my father viewed it as a way of sharpening both motivation and mindset skills that were required for a good engineer. A side effect that they started noticing was that I was using cubing as an 'excuse' to get better at other things. I started cubing before I could drive, and using cubing competitions as an 'excuse' I started learning how to drive early. Things I was previously relatively uninspired/unmotivated to accomplish were becoming a reality as a result of my passion for cubing. This of course was positive to them.

In the end, I believe I would have been a cuber regardless of how they felt about it, but their support did help spur on to trying to be better and better at it, and eventually led to competitions etc. In fact, one of the last things my dad said to me before he passed away 2 months ago was "Chris, I really think that if you approach the rest of your life the way you approached your cubing passions you'll be an extremely successful person."

Whether the reader believes the validity in that or not, it's something I hold dear, and will always fondly remember about the cubing community.
 
ChrisBird said:
My mother and late father both were initially unaware, but then extremely supportive of the hobby, especially so when they saw the 'fruits of the labor' so to speak. Me making, uploading, and building my YouTube channel to a size they thought was respectable was a goal of mine, and their friends emailing them to say "I saw your son on youtube" was a nail in the coffin. My mother viewed it as a 'fun hobby' to keep my brain engaged and to keep me from straying too far away from a good, moral, hard-working path, and my father viewed it as a way of sharpening both motivation and mindset skills that were required for a good engineer. A side effect that they started noticing was that I was using cubing as an 'excuse' to get better at other things. I started cubing before I could drive, and using cubing competitions as an 'excuse' I started learning how to drive early. Things I was previously relatively uninspired/unmotivated to accomplish were becoming a reality as a result of my passion for cubing. This of course was positive to them.

In the end, I believe I would have been a cuber regardless of how they felt about it, but their support did help spur on to trying to be better and better at it, and eventually led to competitions etc. In fact, one of the last things my dad said to me before he passed away 2 months ago was "Chris, I really think that if you approach the rest of your life the way you approached your cubing passions you'll be an extremely successful person."

Whether the reader believes the validity in that or not, it's something I hold dear, and will always fondly remember about the cubing community.
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Made me smile :). sorry about your father ;(

Also i haven't seen you in a long time :o
 
My parents don't encourage me. And I understand them because sometimes I dive into speedcubing. It stymies my studying.

Now I'm keeping a daily planner for students which really helps me to cope with my home tasks and now I have more off time for my hobby.
If you want to know, I use Tools4Wisdom Planner https://www.amazon.com/Tools4Wisdom-October-2018-2019-Planner/dp/B07DFLX7KQ

It's girly, I know))) But you can read reviews like this one https://onplanners.com/planners/best-academic-planners-college-students and chose some which you like.
Good luck to everybody! ;)

UPD. Sorry, The link on amazon was broken.
 
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None of my friends know I've been cubing for 2 years, and am pretty deep into it...Although my full name googled has my WCA profile as the third result so it's only a matter of time. As for my family, my entire family supports it and love watching videos of mediocre solves at the few competitions I've attended. I tried to teach everyone in my immediate family, and only my dad could do it after 2 hours of teaching with all of the algorithms in front of him, and that's the most success my family has gotten.
 
My parents got me my first Rubik's cube for Christmas ten years ago cause I had recently played around with my cousin's and was interested in having my own so I could use it freely and have time to figure out how to solve it and that's as much as I expected to do with it at that point. I didn't end up even using my cube for about a week after I got it but then I decided to figure out as much as I could and easily solved the first layer. After a couple days just doing that I felt like looking at the instructions that came with it and learned to solve it within an hour. My first solve without instructions in front of me took about 15 minutes. I showed my mom and she was really impressed and asked if she could try it. She told me she solved one once as a child and wanted to see if she could do it again, which she couldn't. For the next few days my parents and other people were impressed by my 5 minute solves and then as I continued to practice daily people lost interest and seemed to get annoyed by how much time I spent with it and they're getting more and more annoyed all the time. My friends, family, strangers, everyone. That doesn't stop me though. No one understands how important it is for me to practice and get faster. They're just sick of it and were hoping it was just a phase for a while but now I think everyone's realized it's something I'm gonna pursue for the rest of my life and when I cube around them they just roll their eyes and ignore me and let me do my thing while they wish I were doing something they view as more valuable. I just don't care what anyone thinks though. I'm gonna be a multi world record holder some day and never stop improving.
 
HASH-CUBE said:
Hi all :)

I thought t discuss this, What would ur parent (or family) think of u beeing a speedcuber, i mean do they encorage u on it, or not

what are there thoughts about rubik's cube anyway?

for me, non of my family encorages me on speedcubing... even they wouldn't let me go to competitions (if there is) because they think it's a waist of time

my dad encorages me ya, but the rest are not

waiting for ur posts :)...
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My dad never encouraged me, so I will stop cubing.
 
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