At age three-and-a-half, my son has already been exposed to the influence of other children and it came packaged up like a superhero. The children at my son's daycare first introduced him to Spider-man,
Batman, and Superman about a year ago, and he's been hooked on them
ever since. It's something I knew he'd eventually stumble upon, but I wasn't ready for it quite yet.
I've supplemented his fascination with the occasional toy or shirt, but haven't moved much past that. We don't have cable, so if those cartoons are on TV, he's not watching them. I'm not familiar with superheros much past the "big" ones (Spider-man, Superman, Batman, Wolverine... etc.) And by familiar, I mean I can identify them when I see them. We haven't really checked out comic books yet--I'm still trying to hold on to Curious George (who he also loves dearly.)
But the other day, something happened that had me realizing that my days of avoiding the comic book superhero world are probably coming to an end. I sent him off to preschool in a new Wolverine shirt with some random other superhero players in the background. He deemed one of the secondary character's as "Captain America"--I went with it. I didn't know, so I said, "Sure! That guy is Captain America!" It kind of looked like Captain America.
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