Your child has a super power.

[Kamina]

Children have incredible power over you. They will decide when you sleep, make you clean up after them, and they will not leave you alone.

You will love them regardless, but today, we have discovered something new.

Your child has a superpower gene. Luckily, modern science has come far enough that we CAN affect the growth of this gene once it's been spotted, but we can only "select" the power that your child will have:

• Super strength (however, this will be relative to their muscular strength, so at age 1, they'll be normal, but at 17, a football player's physique will put them on par with Captain America)
• Telepathy (limited to mind-reading, interpreted strictly as words, not thought patterns or emotions)
• Enhanced healing (akin to Wolverine) as well as enhanced evolution (akin to X-Men's Dawin)
• Telepathy (limited to "projecting thoughts")
• Invisibility (skin only)

For an extra fee, you have the option of special pills that can suppress your child's power, but as of now, you cannot get rid of them permanently.

What will you select, and how will you cope?

[Forgotten Entity]

Enhanced healing (akin to Wolverine) as well as enhanced evolution (akin to X-Men's Dawin or Doomsday)

This is the best choice IMO.

[AJ Valliant]

My child being able to keep themselves safe from harm massively outweighs the potential carnage of the other ones.

[T51R]

+1 more for regen; my absolute greatest fear is that I'll need to bury my child(granted no-one's been born yet, but still...) and not the other way around. If they've got that kind of regen, it'll be a huge help to know that they can go do dirt jumping with a 400cc right off the bat and they'll come back home. If they fall under a bus, just let them sit down for a bit and if they smash the open wheeler into the armco from something going wrong with the car at 300 kays an hour, all I need to do is go "walk it off mate, you'll be right."

[dupersuper]

Yeah: obviously a child with a healing power to keep them safe blows a kid showing their internal organs or reading my mind when their babysitter comes by out of the water.

[Beadle]

It's unanimous. Healing factor wipes the floor with the others.

[Chou Blaster]

Yeah I think healing factor as well.

As I do not want to be killed by my child on accident. (Super strength)

And TP is never a good thing.

[BYC]

Healing ftw.

[Omegalith]

I'm going with invisible skin, that's one heck of a Haloween costume.

[Powerboy]

Honestly, if I had a child (or if I had the choice with any child I do know), I'd choose to let nature take its course rather than force my preferences upon the child. I'd never choose the option of taking away something that the child should have had.

[SonOf D.]

Honestly, if I had a child (or if I had the choice with any child I do know), I'd choose to let nature take its course rather than force my preferences upon the child. I'd never choose the option of taking away something that the child should have had.

But nature is horrible anything alive, often it's trying to do the exact opposite. Healing ftw.

[Omegalith]

But nature is horrible anything alive, often it's trying to do the exact opposite. Healing ftw.

Yeah, screw nature. I'm scientifically designing my kid to be the best possible kid.

Heck, if I remove her limbs and organs and put in bionic sockets, she can be modular and keep up with all the latest advancements!

If your child doesn't have jetboots for feet, arm-mounted plasma canons, retractable bladed tentacles and free Wi-Fi, you've failed as a parent.

[SonOf D.]

Yeah, screw nature. I'm scientifically designing my kid to be the best possible kid.

Heck, if I remove her limbs and organs and put in bionic sockets, she can be modular and keep up with all the latest advancements!

If your child doesn't have jetboots for feet, arm-mounted plasma canons, retractable bladed tentacles and free Wi-Fi, you've failed as a parent.

*cries* I wish I had a parent like you!

[FarBeyondC]

Children have incredible power over you. They will decide when you sleep, make you clean up after them, and they will not leave you alone.

You will love them regardless, but today, we have discovered something new.

Your child has a superpower gene. Luckily, modern science has come far enough that we CAN affect the growth of this gene once it's been spotted, but we can only "select" the power that your child will have:

• Super strength (however, this will be relative to their muscular strength, so at age 1, they'll be normal, but at 17, a football player's physique will put them on par with Captain America)
• Telepathy (limited to mind-reading, interpreted strictly as words, not thought patterns or emotions)
• Enhanced healing (akin to Wolverine) as well as enhanced evolution (akin to X-Men's Dawin)
• Telepathy (limited to "projecting thoughts")
• Invisibility (skin only)

For an extra fee, you have the option of special pills that can suppress your child's power, but as of now, you cannot get rid of them permanently.

What will you select, and how will you cope?

Enhanced healing is by far the best choice, unless enhanced evolution is crappy enough to counter balance it.

Second place goes to Super strength, because it sounds like it's possible to gain enough control over to not screw yourself over.

[Guy Smiley]

Yeah, +1 for healing. The kid won't have the issues inherent in being able to crush his dad or read/control minds, and I'll be able to be as terrible a parent as people seem to think I'd be (Seriously, just look at the reactions to stuff like Michael Jackson or Steve Irwin, or virtually any news story about kids home alone or getting kidnapped walking to school, and you'll find thousands of people decrying the parents and threatening to call Social Services. I just don't happen to think that a 12-year old needs 24/7/365 monitoring, okay?!) without being arrested for neglect.