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3TrueFans said:
I think not wanting to have your 6 year old comfortable with electronics is a little silly, being comfortable with electronics and being addicted to electronics are two completely separate matters.
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When I said "too comfortable" I didn't mean "devoid of electronic knowledge". I didn't want to use the word "addicted" because I figured that would raise a whole new argument. I guess "reliance" would've been a better choice. Our old computer is in her room and we have a few educational games that she can access. She knows her way around a lot of things.

And like I said, I know it's more of a parenting issue than anything. My daughter (and probably most kids) get obsessive when they find something they like (ex. watch Frozen 1 billion times). I would rather foster an appreciation for other things at this point rather than subject her to all things electronic.

That being said, there are no friends in Mario Kart.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
When I said "too comfortable" I didn't mean "devoid of electronic knowledge". I didn't want to use the word "addicted" because I figured that would raise a whole new argument. I guess "reliance" would've been a better choice. Our old computer is in her room and we have a few educational games that she can access. She knows her way around a lot of things.

And like I said, I know it's more of a parenting issue than anything. My daughter (and probably most kids) get obsessive when they find something they like (ex. watch Frozen 1 billion times). I would rather foster an appreciation for other things at this point rather than subject her to all things electronic.

That being said, there are no friends in Mario Kart.
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You're just gonna sit there and shoot a mother****ing blue shell at me? That's how we're going to do this? Did I ever tell you that you were adopted?
 
Our living room has doubled as a soccer practice field all winter. I'm ready to take the calamity outdoors.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
Our living room has doubled as a soccer practice field all winter. I'm ready to take the calamity outdoors.
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Yes we started with a beach ball but then they started kicking too hard so we went to a punch balloon. We also turn couch across the living room and use it as a volleyball net
 
With respect to video games, we only let them do educational ones at the computer until they reach about 17 or 18. They played a lot of Oregon Trail. One son would play the whole game hunting until he shot himself too many times.:laugh:

My kids played card games from a very young age. Cribbage, Spades, Pitch. etc. My husband plays chess with them, they could beat me by the time they were 5. They like Chinese checkers too.

With respect to board games, they are fans of a lot of the traditional ones. Clue, Risk (we played Risk one rainy day from 10:00 a.m.to midnight on the three-season porch), Yahtzee, Connect 4, Mastermind, etc.

Now that they are becoming adults, we play a lot of Trivial Pursuit, Settlers of Catan, Blokus, and Apples to Apples.

They went through a Guitar Hero phase that inspired them to get real guitars and learn to play. Only one plays video games much now as an adult, and usually just in the summer.
 
I can't wait to play lego video games with Z, but I have a feeling there are a few more years yet for that. I want to take the learning about it and not spending too much time on it route. Growing up we played tons of board games and card games.

Currently my favorite 'game' is opening up a blank word doc with large font and let her 'type'. We've been working on not hitting toys/computer/books and being gentle. I've had her peck for words with me and I think she's starting to realize that the button she hits does something on the screen. :smile:

There's also the game of sneak the camera on fast enough so she doesn't stop doing the cute thing. She ALWAYS knows!!
 
cyrevkah said:
I can't wait to play lego video games with Z, but I have a feeling there are a few more years yet for that. I want to take the learning about it and not spending too much time on it route. Growing up we played tons of board games and card games.

Currently my favorite 'game' is opening up a blank word doc with large font and let her 'type'. We've been working on not hitting toys/computer/books and being gentle. I've had her peck for words with me and I think she's starting to realize that the button she hits does something on the screen. :smile:

There's also the game of sneak the camera on fast enough so she doesn't stop doing the cute thing. She ALWAYS knows!!
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She's ready for a CF account. She's guaranteed to make more sense than most of us. Username: justmyCYZ
 
When my girls were growing up, we played Scrabble, Boggle, Monopoly, Sorry and some others. Now we play a lot of Apples to Apples and Sequence as well.
 
Our kids get limited time on the iPad/iPod (max 20m/day unless we need to keep them occupied longer for some reason). We've let our 8 year old start playing on the Wii just in the last month (Lego Star Wars and Sports Resort), but again, that's limited time. Otherwise we'll play Sorry, Chutes and Ladders, Memory, Beat the Parents, Connect 4, Battleship, Checkers, Guess Who, Go Fish, Crazy 8s, and War with the 8yo and 5yo. We have a few other games like Cootie that the kids just like to put together without actually playing the "game". It can be a challenge some times to find games that the 5yo can play without us having to help her every move (or that the 2yo won't come in and destroy), but we're getting there.

If it would stop raining, they also like to play outside a lot.
 
Candyland and Chutes & Ladders are favorites with my girls as far as board games are concerned. They also really like puzzles. They probably spend most of their time "pretending" when they play. Teacher/students, mommy/kids, and of course acting out every scene from frozen.

I also feel like this applies to many of us in this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOjI-4S6TUA
 
I'm bit of board game junkie, and depending on the age of your kids I think Sequence and Ticket to Ride might be good basic games to learn.
 
We play quite a few board and card games with my kids (5 & 7) and they do get "some" video game time (mostly on pbskids.org, but sometimes on the xbox or super nintendo). They don't get a lot of time during the school year for video games (due to homework -> yes homework in kindergarten and first grade).

We play a lot of Sorry, Skip-Bo, and UNO. We've also been teaching my 7 year old some more advanced "geeky" board games like Settlers of Catan, Gloom and Stone Age (she's grasping the rules but we're still working on the overall higher-level strategy idea).
 
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