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<\/a>OWL\u2019S WELL New Bedford\u2019s Civitron (right) has some potent super genes \u2014 his six-year-old son is also a superhero: Mad Owl.<\/p><\/div> \u201cWhen he was three he was playing with these two little Lego action figures and one of them wore a little helmet and the other was red with black hair. And these two little guys were going on an adventure. And he was playing by himself and I was in the doorway watching him, and he was playing out the adventures of his dad, Civitron, and his dad\u2019s friend, Citizen Prime (a RLSH from Salt Lake City). That afternoon he comes up to me and says \u2018Dad, can I be Kid Civitron? My powers are I can run really fast and I can climb mountains.\u2019 I was really shocked, I was really amazed, I never even really thought about it. Mad Owl got to live out his mission with a stranded turtle at the park.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were out on a water bottle mission to the park and he found these two little girls by the pond. And he ran up to them and said, \u2018what are you two doing?\u2019 They said, \u2018we found this turtle in the parking lot, and we\u2019re trying to get it out of the parking lot and back into the water.\u2019 I asked Civitron if he hopes that Kid Civitron will continue to be a RLSH as he grows up.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is up to him. If he wants to do it, that\u2019s great, but the costume part, the superhero part, that\u2019s personal. I don\u2019t want to force that on someone if it is not truly them. I don\u2019t want to be that crazy pageant parent with training and stress. I want to treat it as something positive that could enrich his life. Not something weird and out of the ordinary, but something positive.
\nKid Civitron<\/strong>
\nCivitron is from New Bedford, Massachusetts and his 6 year old son has adopted two different hero personas- Kid Civitron and Mad Owl. Civitron explained the origin of Kid Civitron in a phone interview.<\/p>\n
\nHe designed his own costume and drew it out. His original suit was yellow, with a red cape; he said \u2018when you think Civitron, you think fire!\u2019 So he picked fire colors. He has a mask with a light bulb on it, because he has good ideas. So I got him a cape with fire on the back, and he became Kid Civitron. After that, he found another mask that looked like owl eyes or bird eyes that were angry and he became the Mad Owl and that became his superhero persona. And the Mad Owl became the defender of animals. Any animal in trouble any animal lost.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n\u201cThey didn\u2019t want to push it or pick it up, or hurt it. And he said, \u2018well, I\u2019m a superhero, so I can help.\u2019 They came up with the idea that they would all walk together and take really tiny steps behind the turtle. And as they walked, I don\u2019t know how long it took them, a very long time, taking tiny little steps behind the turtle to get it back into the water from the parking lot.
\nIt\u2019s funny, I think of the scope of accomplishments and the perspective of age, talent, whatever, and he\u2019s done a lot more than I have, just by doing that!\u201d(Laughs)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nIt is ok to be creative; it is ok to take that power and control of your personality. Be true to yourself, and do the things you think are important and not think it is weird or odd. I think it has worked. He is really, surprisingly sure of himself. Even where he feels that if he\u2019s not good at something, he is comfortable and confident enough to feel that to know that, and he is ok with it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n