It’s your choice, but personally I wouldn’t stop watching the shows around them. It just seems like avoiding the problem instead of addressing it. What they are doing is common for teens, but they still need to learn to respect other’s interests.Anonymous 1 wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 6:53 pmNo, don’t worry , I laughed lol. I thinks that’s just what I’m going to do from now on. I watch a lot of British tv shows and they constantly make fun of me for it. I’m just going to stop watching the shows around them.
That behavior is too common in schools, you’ve said how it makes you feel, not imagine being a kid on the receiving end of it who has less control over their emotional wellbeing than an adult. I have two teens and they have on occasion made comments like that and we had a discussion that I know they think it’s funny and don’t mean it to be harmful, but making fun of someone’s interests just because they don’t enjoy it can really hurt someone’s self confidence and make them think what they enjoy is shameful. I tell them that if I let them do it to me, their parent, then I’m saying it’s acceptable to do to others and if I ever find out they are bullying a kid in their class over their interests, we’re going to be having a whole other conversation. So, the remarks have stayed very minimal.