Obsessive?
Our boys love the computer. They love the computer so much that they will turn away from a new DVD they have not seen yet to watch someone play a computer game they have seen played a hundred times. (I am not exaggerating on the 100 times either).
Lego Star Wars and Lego Star Wars II are our current games of choice. It is going on four months of playing/watching, and even though both games have been beaten by someone in our house at least once, they are still a source of entertainment for the boys.
Because of their obsessive tendencies over the computer, they each only play one day of the week, and they can earn up to an hour and a half of time over the course of a week. Usually it ends up being about an hour a week per each of them on average.
I also enjoy playing Lego Star Wars I and II on the computer. However, most of the time I would rather be blogging, or reading someone else's blog. The boys frequently ask me to play so that they can watch me. I get stressed out when someone reads over my shoulder, so you can imagine that I get a little flustered when someone is watching me try to get Han Solo to jump over a gap while being shot at by Stormtroopers.
We found a solution to the problem (the problem being five boys crowded around my chair and well into my personal space when I am trying to concentrate on a game). We got a long s-video cord, and a long RCA cord, and strung them between the back of the computer and the TV. Now the boys can watch me play from the comfort of the couch across the room, and I don't have to deal with getting bumped, jostled and breathed on. I know it sounds pathetic, but you can take comfort in knowing that watching computer games was not the main reason we bought the cords and set it up like that. We can also watch online TV episodes from Disney and other sites from the couch instead of all seven of us crowded around a 17" monitor.
Pathetic would be when #2 said that maybe we should record some of my game play on the VCR so they could watch it whenever they want...
Lego Star Wars and Lego Star Wars II are our current games of choice. It is going on four months of playing/watching, and even though both games have been beaten by someone in our house at least once, they are still a source of entertainment for the boys.
Because of their obsessive tendencies over the computer, they each only play one day of the week, and they can earn up to an hour and a half of time over the course of a week. Usually it ends up being about an hour a week per each of them on average.
I also enjoy playing Lego Star Wars I and II on the computer. However, most of the time I would rather be blogging, or reading someone else's blog. The boys frequently ask me to play so that they can watch me. I get stressed out when someone reads over my shoulder, so you can imagine that I get a little flustered when someone is watching me try to get Han Solo to jump over a gap while being shot at by Stormtroopers.
We found a solution to the problem (the problem being five boys crowded around my chair and well into my personal space when I am trying to concentrate on a game). We got a long s-video cord, and a long RCA cord, and strung them between the back of the computer and the TV. Now the boys can watch me play from the comfort of the couch across the room, and I don't have to deal with getting bumped, jostled and breathed on. I know it sounds pathetic, but you can take comfort in knowing that watching computer games was not the main reason we bought the cords and set it up like that. We can also watch online TV episodes from Disney and other sites from the couch instead of all seven of us crowded around a 17" monitor.
Pathetic would be when #2 said that maybe we should record some of my game play on the VCR so they could watch it whenever they want...
Comments
Sounds like something my boys would love too, Legos, Star Wars, computers--all the fixings of a real addiction.