> He loves them but mom hates them and insists on a limit of 10 minutes per day.
Come on this is ridiculous! 10 minutes is nothing!.
Maybe 2 or 3 hours, but 10 minutes? It will take him a full year to finish the first part of a game!, and will never allow him to discover games with depth and stories(my favorites), so he is going to play quick mobile games, which IMO are the worst.
> I am not sure she is wrong. I played a lot of games as a kid and I probably could have done better things with my time. Not that I got any guidance as to what those better things would have been, but still.
Games in my experience are a gateway to most of tech, for example my first interaction with networks and servers was when trying to create a Minecraft server to play with my friends.
Like everything, doing it moderation is the best, I think 2 or 3 hours would be fitting(not that I had them personally),
But please make sure there is actually something else for him to do, because otherwise he is going to spend the whole day waiting for these three hours.
> At the same time, it seems like a lot of dads are bonding with their boys by playing games, and I wonder if I am missing out.
Probably, your kid is also missing out on playing with his friends online.
To this day gaming is one of the biggest ways to keep in touch with remote people for me.
Come on this is ridiculous! 10 minutes is nothing!.
Maybe 2 or 3 hours, but 10 minutes? It will take him a full year to finish the first part of a game!, and will never allow him to discover games with depth and stories(my favorites), so he is going to play quick mobile games, which IMO are the worst.
> I am not sure she is wrong. I played a lot of games as a kid and I probably could have done better things with my time. Not that I got any guidance as to what those better things would have been, but still.
Games in my experience are a gateway to most of tech, for example my first interaction with networks and servers was when trying to create a Minecraft server to play with my friends.
Like everything, doing it moderation is the best, I think 2 or 3 hours would be fitting(not that I had them personally),
But please make sure there is actually something else for him to do, because otherwise he is going to spend the whole day waiting for these three hours.
> At the same time, it seems like a lot of dads are bonding with their boys by playing games, and I wonder if I am missing out.
Probably, your kid is also missing out on playing with his friends online.
To this day gaming is one of the biggest ways to keep in touch with remote people for me.
But that's just my own opinion.