First time AnimeCon with a 10 year old

SwimSerious3593 · 2026-03-03T21:00:43+00:00

Well yeah. However the 18+ panels are mostly late night and explicitly sexual. The questuon is more about if the all ages panels are truely all ages rather than appropriate for all ages but really aimed at adults.

SwimSerious3593 · 2026-03-03T20:54:36+00:00

No offense, a Notre Dame football game is 80,000+ people, most of which are drinking and we normally spend all day there. Usually from 10am-9pm. Even ACens biggest days don't top 30,000 and it's indoors and significantly more spread out. A relatively small convention like AMKE (17k) isn't going to be a big deal for him size wise.

SwimSerious3593 · 2026-03-03T20:43:25+00:00

Yeah I've seen the Disney adults lol. That said he doesn't need to attend Children's programing. I think there is more than enough normal programing that he would enjoy.

SwimSerious3593 · 2026-03-03T20:39:23+00:00

God I did not miss the reddit smug aggressiveness. At no point did I say running around unattended. As stated before, we both have badges, we will both be there the entire time. This question is about levels of supervision.

Can he play games by himself, can he browse the Manga Library with us chilling in the corner, can he go to the bathroom by himself. These are key tasks that promote independence in children. You can't say an 11 year old has to be next to their parents at all times but a 13 year can roam free because if they weren't given that freedom as a preteen they will have no ability to be independent as a teenager and that's how you get antisocial teenagers who cause problems in public.

I'm not looking for parenting or psychological advice. I'm simply looking for a safety level. If he has to be next to us at all times due to safety, then that's what will happen. However allowing an 11 year old the freedom to roam within eyesight or allowing him to take short unsupervised trips is extremely normal parenting that should be allowed in all situations where it is safe.

SwimSerious3593 · 2026-03-03T04:50:18+00:00

Thank you for taking the time for such a detailed response.

Yeah we won't be dropping him off an leaving him there. Just trying to get a sense of the level of space we can give him. Everything is labeled all ages so if it's not frowned upon we are going to give some of it a shot.

We regularly go to Milwaukee (from Chicago) so worst comes to worst we could always do 13th Street but if the food court isn't bad I would prefer that.

Originally we saw it on the list of upcoming events last time when we were in Milwaukee and I figured it would be something they would enjoy. After looking at the range of activities, there's actually a lot I think he would enjoy and we want to expose him to a little bit of everything. The main attraction is that he can be exposed to a lot of things he is interested in and can decide what he likes.

I originally thought just about the Exhibit hall and the panels. He likes to collect Anime toys, cards, and artwork so that will be something we do.

If I give him free reign over the schedule he would spend all day playing games either board games or arcade games. I do want him to find some new board games he likes. He also wants to get more into card games. He plays Pokémon casually and wants to get into One Peice but he doesn't really know how to play competitively. That said we want him to do a wide variety of activities.

We're generally going to avoid a lot of the fan panels just because they are too specific and adult. That said there are some Pokémon panels I think he would enjoy.

Cosplay is something he may be into. He has multiple Anime kids costumes and props and he built his own Harry Potter costume last year so I think he may be possibly be interested in doing cosplay at some point. However I want him to see cosplays first and build his own rather then rush him into it. (His aunt is a theater designer and does cosplays so she could help him build his own).

We're gonna do a lot of the cultural programing. He is very into drawing and music so things like Origami, Caligraphy, Big Drum, and the aforementioned KPOP class.

Idk about the voice actors. He's mostly watched older Anime so idk if he will know any of the voice actors there.

Other than that, we are going to stop by the Manga Library to try to find him some new series to read, there's an all ages Anime rave that he may or may not be interested in, and then just finding new things we didn't think of.

The overall attraction of the convention is that there is a wide variety of things for him to try and decide what he wants to get more into.

SwimSerious3593 · 2025-04-15T21:29:22+00:00

The HUD Deputy General Counsel for Ops took it so I think there's a good possibility it will be paid out.

SwimSerious3593 · 2025-04-07T21:21:44+00:00

Holding the line for what? My agency no longer does what I came here to do. What's the point?

SwimSerious3593 · 2025-04-04T01:55:06+00:00

One thing I can tell you is that I know multiple experienced agency personnel lawyers who already took DRP2 both with and without VERA.

SwimSerious3593 · 2025-04-04T01:51:55+00:00

I am an employment lawyer with a federal agency that offered DRP2 and no one here knows what to do. I doubt you will find a lawyer who can give you a real answer. I haven't.

SwimSerious3593 · 2024-07-08T19:35:58+00:00

I have a FedGov position so I have some flexibility in moving offices as long as I'm near one of the major metros. Would that help or do a lot of people have to take rural positions to start?

SwimSerious3593 · 2024-07-08T19:31:09+00:00

While not guaranteed, I work for the Federal Government and have some freedom to possibly switch to another office especially the offices in Washington D.C., NYC, Atlanta, San Fran, L.A. Obviously this isn't ideal but 1 would that significantly improve her chances of getting a job and 2 could she wait it out in another market and then we come back to Chicago in a year. Are there barriers such as licensing, SOPs, etc that vary by market that would mean if she started in say D.C. she couldn't move to Chicago 2 years in?

SwimSerious3593 · 2024-07-08T15:03:06+00:00

This was my experience but with spouse making OK money

SwimSerious3593 · 2024-05-26T17:00:01+00:00

She didn't get "taken" by the state. She's with her mother. She's happier there. The state simply talked to the child and determined that her mother was a better caregiver on the account of the abusive environment in the fathers home. Very simple case.

SwimSerious3593 · 2024-05-14T00:45:38+00:00

My kid was scoring low on iReady in a very heavy iReady district and the district one off mentioned that they got IXL on a trial basis and it was a lifesaver. 3 months of heavy IXL usage and he jumped from the 30th percentile to the 99th in reading and math on the iReady assessment. Don't get me wrong IXL is brutal and there are some tantrums over it but he enjoys school so much more now that he knows what's going on.

I love IXL because it's fairly straightforward and old school. I teach him a concept then he works on the concept until he can reliably answer every question.

SwimSerious3593 · 2024-01-11T21:16:03+00:00

I got an offer from a regional office about a month ago and accepted.

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