child, recovering from a semi-broken heart

[seperis]

Me: Look, you shouldn't try that hard with girls.
Him: I was thinking when she break ups, I'll swoop in.
Me: Rebound man?
Him: I saw it on TV. That's how you fall in love.

You know, the alarming thing isn't that he has a strategy or anything. It's mostly that she's "seeing", for value of that in the pre-puberty stage, a chemistry geek, for value of that in seventh grade. I don't know if the hard sciences cross over; he's more physics with a heartstopping love of genetics in ways that make me worry about my hairbrush and bone fragements.

Can you go from chemistry to physics? Do you want to? That's the question I'm pondering. Should I push him toward one of the bio girls?

...his school actually has kids who self-identify by hard science. You try navigating that one day without feeling alarmingly uncomfortable with your self-identification as geek, untyped. Apparently that is not on without a specialization. Fandom geek? I don't even know.

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[tetsubinatu.livejournal.com]

At least yours is TALKING to you about it. I had to find out about my 13yo when I looked at his FB and found that he had joined a group called 'Don't you hate it when the one you like likes someone else' (or something like that). I asked if he wanted to talk about it and he said no. *sigh* It's not as if he talks about more than one girl, though. From what he said she pretty much scooped the pool at this year's prizegiving - an allrounder.