<p>One of the things that I noticed with my D through high school has now accelerated in college. Whereas when she was younger I was always recommending books and movies to her, she’s now doing it back to me.
Book recs range from YA fantasy to her class books…she brought home THE ANALECTS and a book on the Wan-Li Rebellion (Ming Dynasty) for me, as well as a role-playing base booklet on Periclean Athens (no mention of Stubbacles). </p>
<p>For movies she was saying we need to see I <em>heart</em> Huckabees.</p>
<p>I’m enjoying this but am a bit bemused…anyone else have a S/D playing turnabout in some aspect of your life?</p>
<p>Mine is telling me I need to have more fun. Recently he even suggested that I should go to “clubs” (nightclubs) and that I’m too young to be home so much. I suppose I might be cramping his style becasue I work from home so I’m always around…GOOD! ;)</p>
<p>haha! i reccomend video games to my dad i brought my one friend home one time because i wanted my dad to see his new video game, and now my dad asks “when’s he coming again” Needless to say, i bought him a videogame for christmas.</p>
<p>My son is always recommending what to read, what movies to see, how to think, what groups to join (post empty house and empty nest). He’s been doing that since he was in high school. Also, how not to fight with my husband and to get along. Let me see if I missed out on something…</p>
<p>Let’s see . . . movies. I have to say I probably would not have ever seen the following if not for my sons bringing them home, and a bout of insomnia this summer: Memento, Requiem for a Dream, Donnie Darko. Also highly recommended by S1 a couple of years ago, but I haven’t seen it yet–Amazon Women on the Moon. So far, they haven’t recommended much as far as books go. The high school girl does, though nothing that is a stretch intellectually at this stage. The last thing she recommended was a Sammy Keyes mystery (jr. high level–but then, I like reading jr. high books.)</p>
<p>My S has always recommended books and movies as he has always been an avid reader and a movie buff. My HS senior is my fashion consultant-she restricts me from buying old lady clothes and keeps me in style.She is my fashion police. When she leaves next year I am in trouble. I don’t trust my fashion sense without her advice any more!</p>
<p>Always recommending books, here. I try to be choosy for my mom since she’s not a fast reader as my dad and I are. I just shove my books in my dad’s face or he steals a couple copies from me (hmm… still hasn’t quite touched on my Russian lit books from two years ago…)… But my parents still recommend me books but I’m in the process of trying to beat my dad to NYT best-sellers! He read Angels and Demons before I had a chance to ask him if he had read it yet after I was finished with DaVinci Code… I’ll have to admit that I’m the loser here since he majored in English and Spanish in college and read… tons of books. Hopefully, with my Russian lit classes, I will be the one recommending him!</p>
<p>I was going through a pile of clothes my daughter had designated for the Salvation Army the other day and ran across a perfectly good sweatshirt of hers that I decided to take for myself. When she saw me wearing it the next day, she said “Mom, you can’t wear that…the reason I was donating it was because it was too young looking for ME”–hence, obviously, too young looking for ME! (I still don’t see anything wrong with it!) :)</p>
i brought my one friend home one time because i wanted my dad to see his new video game, and now my dad asks “when’s he coming again”