An experiment in forced nostalgia and questionable parenting

[elwing]

It's sometimes hard as a parent to enforce time limits with Minecraft as what she's doing in her worlds is undoubtedly creative, inspirational, intellectually stimulating

you know, my parent were enforcing time limits with Lego... 

 

[DrHAX]

I was playing Blood and Duke Nukem at age 6.. other games seemed a bit weak sauce in the FPS category. Then again I found it funny to kick around the zombie heads and find the secrets. I grew up on the NES my mother's family owned. Kirby is my favourite game on it.

 

[TrashyMG]

I was playing Blood and Duke Nukem at age 6.. other games seemed a bit weak sauce in the FPS category. Then again I found it funny to kick around the zombie heads and find the secrets. I grew up on the NES my mother's family owned. Kirby is my favourite game on it.

I was out of highschool when Blood came out :/ I also found it funny to kick around zombie heads..

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

The stuff they try to stuff into my kids' heads are more questionable than me letting them playing GTA all day ...

 

[Fzero]

That red C64 looks delicious.


I let my daughter play my Grandstand Caveman game, which was probably one of the first video games I played too.


She's no good at it, but likes to control it and I guess watch the graphics respond

 

[thatgui]

or giving them inspiration (a game or movie limits that a lot), that gaming is on a very low priority on an "what I want my kid to do" list.

I agree with the vast majority of the points raised in your posts above, but the above quote is pretty much at odds with my personal experience as a young gamer & parent of a young gamer.


The game that really makes me question this is Minecraft. My daughter along with millions of other children finds Minecraft truly inspirational. For example, whenever we walk anywhere together we tell each other made up stories, ever since she started playing Minecraft, about a year ago, every story she tells me has been based upon the 'mythology' which she has attached to her minecraft worlds. Can't wait to hear the next exciting installment of the misadventures of Steve, Katania & Mr Creeps.

It's sometimes hard as a parent to enforce time limits with Minecraft as what she's doing in her worlds is undoubtedly creative, inspirational, intellectually stimulating and tremendous fun. It's hard to say no when you hear 'Oh just another 10 minutes Dad, I've nearly finished my redstone powered railway, working farm, jungle temple, etc.

I can easily agree with that (but my wife won't and I find it quite hard to argue with someone that holds a diploma in educational studies) and there are probably a whole bunch of other games with similar mechanics.