When a Baby Discovers Video Games
It’s been three months since this working mom resigned from her company to become a full time freelancer and mother. Since that time, I have been busting the laptop I bought (technically, still paying for) with all the gusto of someone who knows how the funds for next month’s food and necessities will come from the sales I make and services I get paid for this month.
Being the breadwinner while my partner prepares for overseas work is a sweet but tiring thing. On one hand, I get to control everything that we do with our earnings and get to demand some time off from chores to finish a project that is due soon. That’s the tiring part.
The sweet part of each completed project, each sale, each paypal withdrawal, is the story of the kid who hogs the nintendo DS just when Mommy wants to relax and play; making Mommy consider buying her own top secret Nintendo Wii set, while there’s a sale at buy.com, and a package of three games comes with the Wii set.
Owning a Wii set is exciting, at least until the latest latest gaming gadget comes out. For once we could all come together as a family to play in one gaming gadget, and not separately; the daddy plays MMORPG on his PC, the baby hogs the DS and the Mommy is left to play yahoo games on her work PC. Of course there could be a favorite game for each member of the family, and for some reason, I think my cooking video game won’t be welcome much to the race hungry individuals that I will share the Wii with.
We don’t know the exact moment when our son discovered how to manage the controls of the handheld, we just woke up one morning and saw him tinkering with the DS ’til he got to the start portal of Mario Kart. But as my son’s grandmom always tells us, “if a child has gamer parents, with techie lifestyles, would he even think of NOT playing video games?” And that was that.
Recent video game issues at home provoked the thought of me founding a Family Video Game Addicts Anonymous. Simply put, this organization will cater to families that play video games together!