Particles not following parented moving object.............

I have parented a bubble particle to a character I want the bubbles to follow. However the particles stay in one place. Why aren't the particles following the character even though they are parented ?

Btw, another weird thing is that the cross-hairs for the particle emitter are moving across the screen as if they were parented to the character.

Any information would be greatly appreciated, thank you very much.

 

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Do you mean the particles that are already emmited or new ones? You can set your emitter to local space, and they should follow the parent, but that can look a little weird.