Here Is a Crossplay Review Template For Your Kids
I'd like to include more voices from children. Maybe yours would like to contribute?
Most of what you hear on Crossplay comes from the perspective of parents and caregivers. On some level, that’s what Crossplay was about from day one, trying to cultivate a community for frank and honest discussions about screen time, the stress of Roblox, and more. But I’d like more voices from kids here, and I cannot always rely on my own kids, because unlike me, there is more to their life than games, I guess.
(Again, unless you don’t count Roblox. Then, they play a lot of video games! And I do consider Roblox to be, largely, a video game. It’s just one that sucks up so much time, and I don’t want every post on Crossplay to be about Roblox, even though it could be.)
But when I reviewed Pokémon Pokopia with my nine-year-old, I gave her an assignment. She’s in fourth grade, which is when homework, book reports, and other things have kicked into gear. Sometimes, I’ll have my phone record our conversations while we play video games, but in the case, I thought: why not give her a book report?
This is what she handed in last week:
Then, another thought occurred: maybe I should make this a template for everyone!
So here you go:
Please share what your kids have to say about games! You can send copies of their reports to my email address, and once I’ve got a batch, I’ll share them with everyone.
It’s perfectly okay, too, if you have to write the report for them—or help them. I’d like to get my five-year-old involved with this in the future, too, and while she’s at the early stages of putting together reading and writing, she can’t do it on her own just yet.
Get writing, kiddos!
Have a story idea? Want to share a tip? Got a funny parenting story? Drop Patrick an email.
Also:
I survived another week with my kids as a solo dad, only for both children to get sick at the end of the weekend, right as my wife returned from her long work trip.
My nine-year-old is obsessed with Snoopy, and I just got early access to the new Snoopy video game. Will she care for it? I have no idea, but I’ll report back soon.
She is, however, re-obsessed with Fortnite. I’ve even had to put parental controls onto her Switch. She’s pitching me on a two TV gaming setup for her and I. It’s a lot. I’ll have more to say next week, because I can’t tell if this is another phase.
I think this is a great way to get young kids interested in writing. Let them write about something that actually matters to them. You won’t have to pull teeth.
I love this idea - I will ask my kids if they want to do some?