I love that you’re going to show your kids Five Nights.
While on vacation recently, I took my 3.5 y/o to the store to get groceries and a toy for her. She fell in love with a Coraline doll and demanded to watch the movie even after I explained that it was scary. We really emphasized it and she was adamant.
So that night (after the 1 y/o went to sleep), trusting her to tell us if it was too scary, we watched it as a family. She has to hide her face once or twice but otherwise enjoyed it a lot. Based on the her questions during and after, I think she missed both the subtext AND the actual text lol, but she claimed to love it.
It was our first encounter with something explicitly spooky and not merely “halloween kids books” spooky. I’m proud of her for handling it and of us for trusting her.
Yeah, one thing I have made peace with is that playing just a few hours of a long game is fine if it's not clicking with me or if there is something else I want to play more. Max mentioned Death Stranding and that is one where I barely made it out of the first act, but I feel like that is all I really needed to experience.
I still haven't fully given up long games. I do know there are games (Death Stranding, God of War: Ragnarök) that came out at times that I just couldn't devote a lot of time for them and I'm left wishing I had time to play them (I don't think I ever will). I've bought Zelda, FFXVI, and Baldur's Gate this year and given them varying amounts of time. I'm really enjoying Baldur's Gate, but it's a game that if I start playing after 9pm, I'll fall asleep in twenty minutes. And after telling myself I had no interest in Starfield, I did buy a new M.2 drive and renew PC Game Pass so I guess I'll be giving it a whirl. I don't expect I'll ever see the end though.
I remember playing games that were totally inappropriate for me (MK in Elementary school, GTA3 in High School). I've played Street Fighter 6 in front of my toddler, but that's probably as violent as I'd get. Have to explain that its make believe and the game and that they shouldn't be trying to do fireballs in real life. As for when they'll be able to play violent video games? Well I hope its a lot later than I did!
I love that you’re going to show your kids Five Nights.
While on vacation recently, I took my 3.5 y/o to the store to get groceries and a toy for her. She fell in love with a Coraline doll and demanded to watch the movie even after I explained that it was scary. We really emphasized it and she was adamant.
So that night (after the 1 y/o went to sleep), trusting her to tell us if it was too scary, we watched it as a family. She has to hide her face once or twice but otherwise enjoyed it a lot. Based on the her questions during and after, I think she missed both the subtext AND the actual text lol, but she claimed to love it.
It was our first encounter with something explicitly spooky and not merely “halloween kids books” spooky. I’m proud of her for handling it and of us for trusting her.
Yeah, one thing I have made peace with is that playing just a few hours of a long game is fine if it's not clicking with me or if there is something else I want to play more. Max mentioned Death Stranding and that is one where I barely made it out of the first act, but I feel like that is all I really needed to experience.
Thanks for giving my question some thoughts and others for sharing theirs. 🙂
I still haven't fully given up long games. I do know there are games (Death Stranding, God of War: Ragnarök) that came out at times that I just couldn't devote a lot of time for them and I'm left wishing I had time to play them (I don't think I ever will). I've bought Zelda, FFXVI, and Baldur's Gate this year and given them varying amounts of time. I'm really enjoying Baldur's Gate, but it's a game that if I start playing after 9pm, I'll fall asleep in twenty minutes. And after telling myself I had no interest in Starfield, I did buy a new M.2 drive and renew PC Game Pass so I guess I'll be giving it a whirl. I don't expect I'll ever see the end though.
I remember playing games that were totally inappropriate for me (MK in Elementary school, GTA3 in High School). I've played Street Fighter 6 in front of my toddler, but that's probably as violent as I'd get. Have to explain that its make believe and the game and that they shouldn't be trying to do fireballs in real life. As for when they'll be able to play violent video games? Well I hope its a lot later than I did!