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[patrickfraser]

Kids' heads are too hard to flick off. You need to kick hard.

 

[CoolMantid]

Kids' heads are too hard to flick off. You need to kick hard.

Any experience with kicking kid's heads?

 

[sinensispsyched]

I'm a kid AND a soccer player!

It's all about which part of the foot you use, and which part of the head you strike. If you use your toes in the weak back part of the head, the head does a whiplash and falls off real easy! BTW, don't ask about my brother, or I'll kick off your head too!(jk)

 

[brancsikia339]

Kids in my class try to PO me by saying,"I'm gonna squish your mantises" and such simple yet agitative stuff. Everyone mocks me for my passion, as well as for how sincere I am for that passion. They don't live decent lives.

That's what's happened to me in recent years. When I was in first grade, though, I brought in a big Tenodera female, and everyone loved her. Same in second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth. In fourth grade, we even had a voting poll to name my 4th generation female T. aridifolia. We named her Sally, and when she inevitably died, everyone was upset. But as of this year, when I brought in my favorite blue flash for an elective, people actually shoved her net cage out of my hand! Some people intentionally tried to flick her off the side of her cage! It upsets me that some people have to hate insects just to be happy. They were actually amuzed! :angry:

 

[CoolMantid]

That's what's happened to me in recent years. When I was in first grade, though, I brought in a big Tenodera female, and everyone loved her. Same in second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth. In fourth grade, we even had a voting poll to name my 4th generation female T. aridifolia. We named her Sally, and when she inevitably died, everyone was upset. But as of this year, when I brought in my favorite blue flash for an elective, people actually shoved her net cage out of my hand! Some people intentionally tried to flick her off the side of her cage! It upsets me that some people have to hate insects just to be happy. They were actually amuzed! :angry:

That is sad. i try to stay on the down low about my pets. I told my science teacher about them and she gave me extra credit for bringing one in. She says i am her star pupil

 

[brancsikia339]

That is sad. i try to stay on the down low about my pets. I told my science teacher about them and she gave me extra credit for bringing one in. She says i am her star pupil

That's not saying everyone is like that. I have friends who love mantids, but honestly, no one in school respects my passion. This is probably the only place I can actually have a conversation about mantids without criticism besides home.

 

[Precarious]

...But as of this year, when I brought in my favorite blue flash for an elective, people actually shoved her net cage out of my hand! Some people intentionally tried to flick her off the side of her cage! It upsets me that some people have to hate insects just to be happy. They were actually amuzed! :angry:

People who behave that way are invariably lacking empathy. They are cut off from the connection that exists between all forms of life, and this empowers their ego to seek expressions of superiority over any they judge as 'inferiors'. I feel sad for people like that. They have to look down on everything just to feel better about themselves. Where as, if we work on ourselves and feel good about who we are, it frees us to see all the beauty that exists outside ourselves without feeling threatened by it.

Don't think your dealings with their type will end after school. The world is filled with empty souls unable to love anything but what they are forced to respect for reasons of survival. Don't let that stop you from loving what you find beautiful, because your opinion is the only that really matters, so long as that opinion comes from a place of honesty.

I was the outcast in school too. The 'trench coat mafia' type, all in black. The punk rocker/artist. People thought I was a witch, a devil worshiper, and God knows what else. Where are those people now? I don't know and I don't care. Where am I now? Right where I want to be; in direct communion with nature and the connective force of consciousness existing within all living things.

So be who you are, be honest with yourself, and let the soulless live their empty lives.

 

[patrickfraser]

AMEN! :clap:

 

[sinensispsyched]

@brancsikia339 post#65-THANK YOU! That is exactly the same with me! These mantids are SO underestimated, everyone thinks of them as mosquitoes.

This year, I am debating whether to bring in a budwing or blue flash. I'll bring a boxing glove in cese someone is a jerk.

 

[brancsikia339]

@brancsikia339 post#65-THANK YOU! That is exactly the same with me! These mantids are SO underestimated, everyone thinks of them as mosquitoes.

This year, I am debating whether to bring in a budwing or blue flash. I'll bring a boxing glove in cese someone is a jerk.

If I bring mine in, I seriously go under the radar to avoid someone bothering me or my mantids.

 

[sinensispsyched]

Yeah, in terms of under the radar, I slipped up earlier this year. Oops!