ougrad86
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- Jun 11, 2005
so I had another day to spend with Jackson.... he got a new game :Minecraft. I don't get it. he creates lands and castles and buildings and there are cows and pigs, and ghosts and weird creatures roaming around and you can build a house, with TNT, a bomb house. and I never felt so OLD in all my life!!!! and my 7 year old grandson is teaching me.
so Jackson wanted to play "disney scene it" and he points his finger at me at says
"you better take it easy on me cause I KNOW you know everything there is about disney. Grandma Smidgy!"
and I did NOT take liberty with the verbage. those were his exact words.. smart kid.
now, I do NOT "let: kids win. ok, maybe once in a while, when they are REALLY little. oh! or when playing HI HO CHERRY-O, because if you dont cheat and let the kid win, you'll be playing that stupid game for HOURS!!!
but I think if kids never learn how to lose gracefully, or lose at all, actually, and they think they should ALWAYS win and "be special" they will be in for a rather RUDE awakening in the real world when they 1) don't make the team 2)don't get the girl 3) dont' get the scholarship 4) don't get the job..
so , back at the ranch, Jackson and I are playing disney scene it and he beats me fair and square. and he is just thrilled. cause he knows he beat me fair and square.
and 7 is a GREAT age! his unique personality is really developing. he has that twinkle in his eye. he had learned the art of "irony" in conversation. I have been "teasing" him, so he has learned to "tease" back.
never talk "down" to children. they are so much smarter than you think.. and they can be as smart as you allow them to be. but always find a way to laugh with them.
7 is an awesome age ! but that was 10 years ago for DS...but he is totally into Minecraft, and I am totally befuddled by it. I understood Pokémon - finally - but since he dumped that he has played stuff I've never heard of. At least he is not into the really grizzly stuff, but I watch him play sometimes, I see no point to it at all...someone says its like playing with Lego's, you build things and you can interact with other people on the site. Still don't get why he would spend all day on it if I let him...and it's summer and we are at work all day long...
Oh well, school starts soon. But by then he will have his driver's license and a car...maybe I will want Minecraft back !