Thursday, June 21, 2007
How Killing People With My Dad Improved Our Relationship
For those carrying the flag of education for improving familial relationships, promoting healthy family values. You know, good wholesome quality time with Dad, picking off Panzers and Nazis.
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I haven't finished reading it yet, but I will. I think I like where the story is going. How is this substantially different from playing chess with your kids?
I don't think it is substantially different. I thought it was an ironic example, in that although it involved violent games, it had a positive effect on a parent/child relationship - sweet and sour perhaps.
It's like the post I submitted a while back on the dad who played Mr. Banana with his young son who got the cold shoulder from his sister who was doing her thing on Webkinz.
A simple 15 minutes of focused attention with your child - almost regardless of what you do - is incredibly powerful. Use computer games, tropical fruit, what-have-you - but this part of real relationships and interaction seems to be missing for me in many experiences with technology and virtual worlds.
So, although I think that the huddle of girls and boys playing a game for kicks and giggles and not to win, was a good thing - it promoted comraderie - and that's the key. It did or seemed to do some real healthy things for a mixed gender clique.
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