First, to be quite clear, I don't do comic books -- at all. My knowledge of this very foreign genre is limited to what Hollywood has produced for the big screen. Within my miniscule library exists brief knowledge of X-Men. As I'm sure most know the head-hero, the good-guy-in-charge is Dr. Xavier with his special power of mind power -- moving things, finding things, seeing thoughts all with the brain.
Jack, very recently, has shown a desire to pull away from little kid cartoons in favor of big boy movies. Granted he has always been a fan of Indiana Jones and Ghostbusters but he was and is way too young to fill his day with these images so exposure was rightly limited. One day we stumbled upon X-Men 2 and Jack became enthralled. I decided to let it play out -- more for my information than his enjoyment. Jack was hooked; in my humble mom-opinion it was the fight scenes that did it, he is a boy after all. Later that evening Luke and Jack were discussing X-Men, going over each character and his/her power while also discussing that it's pretend not real. Jack stopped Luke at one point and asked, "Dad can you teach me to move things with my brain?" Luke's immediate answer, "NO."
Why no? Let's all be honest -- Jack has a big head and I'm not talking arrogance here folks. He is also really smart -- scary smart sometimes. You know and I know that mind control can't happen -- but what if we're wrong?? Luke didn't want Jack to spend all his time attempting to tap into the other 90% of his brain that we don't use. We're barely keeping up with him as it is. In all seriousness -- we are not so arrogant of parents to assume that our child is such supreme intelligence that he will be able to read minds, he talks about flatulence WAY TOO much for that to be true. We did think, however, it was interesting that of all the X-Men and all the powers, Jack chose the one with his brain.
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