Personally, I am okay with that. I love the fact that my child does not go out of his way to fit in with every stupid trend that makes its way through the halls of his school.
Me too!!! He sounds just like my DS
I wish I had a solution for you. My family is full of bookish nerds and my DH's family has almost as many.
My approach would be to talk to your DS about it and prepare him. Talk to him about how everyone has different interests, and if these family members don't enjoy time spent with reading/math/science this is ok. It's ok for them to have different interests and it's ok for your son to have his.
Here's a parallel:
My DH is an airplane/hotel kind of vacationer. I'm a die hard camper. He cringes at the idea of camping ("ew. I like to shower" he says) while I'm pining away to recreated the camping memories of my childhood. So I say to the kids: "camping is GREAT. It's ok that Daddy doesn't think so - he never had a chance to camp when he was a kid. That's ok! I bet if he had, he'd love it too."
The point is that different people have different values, and while you can't change other people's values, you can prepare your kids for the differences and let them know that it's ok to be who they are
Meanwhile I don't know that there's much you can do to change the opinions of the relatives. The important thing, though, is that your son comes away from it still feeling good about himself.
