Demigods of olympus godly parent series#

The more varied characters you have, the less likely they are to be stereotypes, and the more likely kids of all sorts will be able to see themselves in the stories.ДЄlso, why have just one kid with ADHD when you can have a whole camp of them? ItвЂ™s way more interesting. ThatвЂ™s why itвЂ™s better to have more and more diversity in media, so one token character doesnвЂ™t have to be an entire type of people on their own. Most have combinations of all these traits in different amounts and different circumstances. Some of us even fall asleep at the drop of a hat. By giving the children of each different god different traits, and even having those traits show up differently even among siblings, you see dozens of different ways to have ADHD, too. In the Olympians books, there isnвЂ™t just one token kid with ADHD, certainly not just one smart-alek troublemaking hyperactive boy. This ties back to the idea of representation in media, specifically, avoiding stereotyping by offering more than one way to BE a particular label. Wait, wait, IвЂ™m still here and marginally alert, I promise.

THINK of it! If our ADHD symptoms are actually symptoms of demigodness? And my personal ADHD makes me super prone to Intrusive Sleep and a hyperactive subconscious? Bam, Daughter of Hypnos. In The Lost Hero we discovered Camp Half-Blood had been opened up to children of secondary gods as well, and thatвЂ™s how I realized I am absolutely, without a doubt, the daughter of Hypnos, god of sleep and dreams. But the problem is I was only looking at the Big 12 gods. Perfect compromise!ДЄnd IвЂ™d never found the perfect godly parent for myself- the god of storytelling is Hermes, but IвЂ™m not nearly enough of a trickster then Apollo is the god of poetry and music, and frankly I did blow the rest of my family away at the archery range last week (true story), but his children felt too stuck up and my love of gardening might have hinted at Demeter if I didnвЂ™t also have a tendency to neglect houseplants. George Washington was a son of Athena.вЂќ But now that the Roman aspects are in play, itвЂ™s obvious my husband is more accurately the son of Minerva, being the more warlike aspect. That is TOTALLY more your style of warlike tendencies. I had pegged my military-history-obsessed husband as a son of Athena, even though he (not having read the books) had assumed Ares: вЂњNo, no, Ares kids are more about rampant violence and destruction. Bringing in the Roman aspects of the gods has added some subtlety to our self-diagnoses.

Demigods of olympus godly parent series#

But the Heroes of Olympus series has broadened the scope of demigod variations. His morbid sister talks way too much about death not to be a daughter of Hades. The mechanically-minded boy, who was actively repairing a radio-controlled car as we read, is obviously a son of Hephaestus. My daughterвЂ™s tweet just after we first read about hyperactive demigod Leo.Д«eing that our whole family has ADHD and weвЂ™re all pretty individually unique, weвЂ™d always enjoyed, seeing that our ADHD might be a sign of demigod status, figuring out who each of our godly parents must be.

And the more ADHDish the characters act, the more my ADHD kids adore them. They talk about these characters constantly, changing their favorites daily. My daughter the artist is now also spending all her electronics time in Olympians fandom, exchanging fanart and cheerfully absorbing spoilers that only become clear to her later (the other night as I was reading, she started quoting a passage along with me that she had seen quoted online already and just liked enough to memorize out of context). THESE, they will even spurn their electronics time to read to themselves, and then they still want me to read out loud as a family. My kids, IвЂ™ve mentioned, prefer for me to read out loud than for them to read on their own. Recently we realized that, although we had read all of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and had spread out to various titles from the Rick Riordan Presents imprint, weвЂ™d never actually continued on to the Heroes of Olympus series.* Now we have, pitching our household back into demigod madness, and IвЂ™m thinking about representation again. I have written before about the importance of representation in books and other media, and at least once IвЂ™ve mentioned my childrenвЂ™s love of Rick RiordanвЂ™s Olympians and the canonical fact that all demigods have some variation of ADHD and/or related learning disabilities. Olympian fanart by my daughter, screenname BlueRose