What on earth is it with these Pokémon games? This is lighthearted I guess because I'm sure it's great for children to have passions but I'm sitting here marking yet another load of 'stories' from school that all wind up being about Pokémon and thinking it's all bordering on the obsessive.
I'm not sure how they work because I only have girls so I haven't seen any of the games/tv programmes or whatever.
But the impact they're starting to have in my classroom is insane. It seems to be particularly Yeas 5 and 6. Whatever I'm doing in Drama the boys manage to twist their plays to be about Pokémon. Whenever they have free rein to write in English they twist the titles and write terrible, descriptionless rubbish about Pokémon fights and a character that seems to be called Baby Jesus?! When I talk to them in tutor time it seems their interests have become centred around Pokémon and nothing else. They do 'Pokémon stuff' at weekends (I don't know exactly what that entails), draw Pokémon, print Pokémon pictures off the computers and (possibly) pretend to be Pokémon at times.
It was one boy's birthday the other day and I asked him if he was doing anything special. The other boys were all very excited and said they're going to London. I said that sounded really fun and asked what they were going to do. The answer - Pokémon!?!
Have I been living under a rock? What are these special and amazing things and why are they taking over our children's lives?
AIBU?
to think this Pokemon obsession has become ridiculous
manicinsomniac · 27/11/2016 15:59
YABU. (OK YANBU)
I blame geeky parents 
DD is 2 and can recite the full Team Rocket motto 
Girls can be into Pokemon too 
There's a recent new Pokemon Ds game released.
There's a massive new release in the trading card game in January. But there's a lot of online excitement surrounding it already.
Should die down again after that
My three DDs seem to have become bored of it. DD3 (14) was the most into it, but hardly mentions it now.
DD2 (now almost 18) used to be very like you describe with anything she was into. It was usually while she was still at primary school, and was going through a phase of being obsessed with Scooby Doo.
At one parents' evening her class teacher asked if I could help dissuade her from making all stories she was asked to write about Scooby Doo!!
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It seems to me like it was a bit of a thing in around 1996 and then suddenly reappeared this year. I didn't hear of it in between.
It never really went away. I have a dd19 and ds21. My lovely dd expected me to rush home and wait in for the postman because her game was arriving
But i have a lot to be grateful for, as my DS is dyslexic and the pokemon games gave him the insentive to read. We used to play name a pokemon beginning with A, B etc.
Even now if my DS is feeling a bit down i will buy him a pack of cards to cheer him up, even though he doesnt actively collect them any more
YANBU. It is idiotic and means people are even less connected with their surroundings than usual. I find it appalling that adults are just as bad, just as obsessed with this game as their children are. It's pathetic.
nonsense, it gives a talking point, i listen to the car mechanics discussing it in their tea break
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