Your Parents and Cubing

[RamenNoodles]

Being from an Asian family they think that cubing is useless and just a hobby. It is a hobby but I just have to earn my own money to go to comps and get cubes. My friends tolerate it and I have gotten them into cubing to. One of them stopped and sold a stackmat g4 for 15 dollars.

 

[Hazel]

Even after 5+ years, they support me going to competitions and they often ask when the next one is, but other than that they're neutral. They don't mind that I bring a cube with me everywhere I go which is good
They're always impressed when I make finals in an event though!

 

[Julio974]

My mother thinks cubing has become « invasive » (61 puzzles after 1 year), and, now, when I get bad grades, my puzzles are confiscated…

 

[Awesomesaucer]

My mother thinks cubing has become « invasive » (61 puzzles after 1 year), and, now, when I get bad grades, my puzzles are confiscated…

I’ve only got 15 cubes after one year.....
Study hard then you become doctor! Famous quote by my grandfather

 

[AbsoRuud]

Being from an Asian family they think that cubing is useless and just a hobby. It is a hobby but I just have to earn my own money to go to comps and get cubes. My friends tolerate it and I have gotten them into cubing to. One of them stopped and sold a stackmat g4 for 15 dollars.

Sorry, but what does Asian have to do with cubing? I mean, Max Park, Leo Borromeo, Yusheng Du, Shivam Bansal, SeungBeom Cho, Zibo Xu... etc.

 

[weatherman223]

My Dad is not that supportive of it but tolerates it and my mom is supportive of it as long as I get schoolwork done.

My dad is willing to take me to comps as well as my mom.

 

[Caleb/spooderskewb]

My mom says I need to “balance my time” and hardly ever take me to comps I don’t think they realize how important cubing is to me

 

[RamenNoodles]

Sorry, but what does Asian have to do with cubing? I mean, Max Park, Leo Borromeo, Yusheng Du, Shivam Bansal, SeungBeom Cho, Zibo Xu... etc.

Asain families expect you to be a doctor or some other job that will make you rich. They make you study. Eventually, when you get into high school you have to give up cubing because you do a lot of stuff in high school.

 

[Tony Acevedo]

My siblings hate it and so do my parents, I get straight-A's in school but my parents say that if I get a single B in any of my classes I will get my cubes taken away, they never gave me this much pressure when I would be buried in my phone playing video games, but I guess in their eye's it's just another waste of time. Now that I'm sub-20 I'm thinking of going to a comp, but I don't know if my parents would approve.

 

[weatherman223]

My siblings hate it and so do my parents, I get straight-A's in school but my parents say that if I get a single B in any of my classes I will get my cubes taken away, they never gave me this much pressure when I would be buried in my phone playing video games, but I guess in their eye's it's just another waste of time. Now that I'm sub-20 I'm thinking of going to a comp, but I don't know if my parents would approve.

A tip: Always get your schoolwork and studying done before you touch your cubes. Your parents will be much happier and more willing to support you if you prioritize your schoolwork. You may not be able to practice some days but getting it done early means not having to do it later

 

[Awesomesaucer]

A tip: Always get your schoolwork and studying done before you touch your cubes. Your parents will be much happier and more willing to support you if you prioritize your schoolwork. You may not be able to practice some days but getting it done early means not having to do it later

Thanks for the tip! That helps a lot. Also my maths teacher hates my cube and is annoying. How do I fix it lol

 

[Tabe]

Thanks for the tip! That helps a lot. Also my maths teacher hates my cube and is annoying. How do I fix it lol

Simple. Don't cube in class. It IS annoying in class.

 

[freshcuber.de]

Tell the maths teacher how the cube is a great example for group theory. And also for commutators and conjugation. Offer him that you can give a presentation about that.

 

[weatherman223]

Tell the maths teacher how the cube is a great example for group theory. And also for commutators and conjugation. Offer him that you can give a presentation about that.

And you can get a great FMC lesson out of it personally!

 

[RamenNoodles]

One question:how?

 

[weatherman223]

One question:how?

I don’t know if you’ve heard of this, but there’s this really cool website where you can type something in and it shows up videos and articles on what you typed in. I’m pretty sure it’s called Google? It’s useful.

 

[RamenNoodles]

I don’t know if you’ve heard of this, but there’s this really cool website where you can type something in and it shows up videos and articles on what you typed in. I’m pretty sure it’s called Google? It’s useful.

what's Google I've onmy heard of yahoo.

 

[StrudelGod]

my mom doesn't really care at all about cubing, but she doesn't have anything against it to her its just another weird thing I'm into

my dad however wanted to learn to solve the cube after he realized how fun it can be (he enjoys watching the cubers at the competition I go to). He carries a mini key-chain cube around, and he's learning the last layer

Are you kinda like me, jumping around hobbies? I mean speedcubing is the thing I've stuck with longest, but have been into a lot of other things lol

 

[StrudelGod]

My mum will basically support anything that isn't spending copious amounts of time focused on my computer, but she still doesn't buy me cubes or anything, I have to work for them, and she isn't about to fly me out to a different state for a comp.

 

[Robot420]

My parents think its cool, my sister just calls me a nerd. My dad likes to stack all my puzzles in a tower.