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Geek Parenting

What Joffrey, Jor-El, Maleficent, and the McFlys Teach Us about Raising a Family

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Get parenting advice from geeky pop culture icons like The Addams Family’s Morticia and Black Panther’s T’Chaka in 97 entertaining mini-essays for parents who want to teach their kids to stay strong—and conquer the world.
It takes a starship to raise a child. Or a time machine. Or a tribe of elves. Fortunately, Geek Parenting offers all that and more, with thoughtful mini-essays that reveal profound child-rearing advice (and mistakes) from the most beloved tales of geek culture. 
Nerds and norms alike can take counsel from some of the most iconic parent–child pairings found in pop culture: Whether you’re raising an Amazon princess, a Jedi Padawan, a brooding vampire, or a standard-issue human child, Geek Parenting helps you navigate the ion storms, alternate realities, and endless fetch quests that come with being a parent.
Includes parenting experts from across time and space, such as:
  • Luke and Darth Vader from Star Wars
  • Peter Parker and Aunt May from Spider-Man
  • Joffrey and Cersei from Game of Thrones
  • Frodo and Bilbo from Lord of the Rings
  • Thor, Loki, and Odin from Thor
  • Spock, Sarek, and Amanda from Star Trek: The Original Series
  • Claudia and Lestat from The Interview with the Vampire
  • Bruce Wayne and Alfred from Batman
  • Buffy and Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Orpheus and Morpheus from The Sandman
  • Paul Atreides and Lady Jessica from Dune
  • Kal-El and Jor-El from Superman
  • Diana and Hippolyta from Wonder Woman
  • Alexander and Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation
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      • Booklist

        April 1, 2016
        These days, science fiction, fantasy, and superheroes are pop-culture juggernauts, featured in blockbuster movies, buzzworthy TV shows, and best-selling books. Segal and Lupescu take their interest in geek culture and combine it with parenting advice in this collection of short essays on the do's and don'ts of raising children, as demonstrated in popular movies, TV shows, books, and comics. The authors pay plenty of attention to the classic sf/fantasy canon (Star Wars; Star Trek, in all its iterations; Harry Potter; the works of Neil Gaiman and Octavia Butler) while including plenty of newer works (Game of Thrones, Orphan Black, The Walking Dead). There's also a nice smattering of kitschy pop culture, including essays about Clash of the Titans, The Addams Family, and Bewitched, as well as excellent coverage of recent graphic novels. As far as parenting advice goes, it's nothing groundbreaking, and sometimes the takeaways are a bit obvious, but Segal and Lupescu do draw some fascinating conclusions from unlikely sources. This is an enjoyable light read for parents with an interest in popular culture.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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