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Who says that nerds won’t make good parents? Oh, no one said that? My bad. I guess I misheard, but here is a list anyway. Oh, and I am too lazy to prioritize these, so they are in no particular order.

1. Who has cooler toys and gadgets than nerds do? I can tell you my husband has three little man armies downstairs that he built from models, a million dolls-oh, I mean action figures- all over the place, card games, board games, you name it. As far as gadgets, how about good computers, video games consoles, large televisions and home theater systems? And let’s not forget about the plethora of DVDs or Blue Ray or whatever you happen to own. The child of a nerd will want for no awesome toys, as the nerdy parents will have already bought them all for themselves.

2. The children of nerds will not be left to watch TV alone for hours on end while the parents ignore their children. Oh no. And I can guarantee you that these children will not be watching The Doodlebops, either. These kids will be watching DVDs of G.I. Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, Sesame Street, Voltron, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many more of our childhood favorites. And we will be sitting right beside them reliving our childhoods.

3. A Surplus of old comic books to read. Your nerd child is years behind on the X Men Series so you had better start reading him/her in the womb. Think about it, if you had the comics you had now as a child (all of them at once, I mean) you may have never left your room. Nerd children will be able to read by the time they are in kindergarten and they will have already read the entire Phoenix Saga.

4. And speaking of comic books, what about comicons? I mean, what nerd doesn’t like a good comic convention? And what kid doesn’t love Halloween? I think it’s a match made in heaven.

5. Video Games. Who needs XBox live when you have children to destroy? No more need to hunt down the fresh meat on the server, you have created your own competition. And when they get better than you, then you can both get on Xbox live to find other newbies. Oh, and you finally have someone to trade Pokemon with.

6. Children who’s parents are nerds will be inundated with useless knowledge from the time they are born. Whether it be cool science facts or more nerdy star wars facts our children will be walking encyclopedias of nerdom. They may get picked on by other kids, but I was told that that just builds charisma.

7. Nerdy parents will want to go see the newest pixar film with their kids. Even if their kids don’t want to see it. I mean, I wish I had a kid so I could go and see Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. I just won’t feel right when I go to see it without a child to take with me. But I am going to go see it anyway.

8. Nerdy parents will not have to worry about what their kids are doing on the internet. They will know. And heck, they will probably be doing it with them at least till they hit puberty.

I probably would have had more but I just did this on the fly. If you have anything you would like to add, please comment.

Written by Alouette

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