There are plenty of activities that don’t include video games or letting them roam freely in the streets.
martial arts
boy scouts and girl scouts
sports
school clubs
clubs outside of school
camps
ymca
if none of these work then maybe you could spend the time with them doing something outside and healthy besides playing video games inside. Video games are not a good substitute for a healthy lifestyle or learning social skills. I allow my kids to play games but I also limit their screen time pretty hard.
It’s actually sad that parents hold their kids inside like inmates nowadays.
Back when I was a raider and in guilds on my old server Farstriders almost every guild I joined was ran by a husband and wife and sometimes their kids played also. But just bond with your kid over stuff he enjoys. Things are not as bad as they seem don’t focus to much on the negative in the news. Or find an activity that interest you both. Maybe some electronic building activities if you know how to do that. Lego tech is kinda expensive to get into but you can make so many cool stuff.
I mean, I’d get bored doing something my parents liked to play. Back then Wow also mattered because it was the place to meet people with the same age group, talk and play with. Now you got social media platforms and this game, he’s playing it with you. No kidding he loses interest after 30 mins. xD
CRAP. There, I said it. Now you can go to bed knowing what the Horde think of the Alliance. ALLIANCE SCUM! D:<
Crazy mad men running amok. Don’t walk out looking like that Barbie or else… we might not see you again! cries
yea people like different things my parents not a huge fan of video games and my sisters too so i just play alone most of the time probably why i got into mmorpgs.
I have 2 daughters that play with their boyfriends. We did a bit of Mythic+ together and it wasn’t long before drama ensued and I’ve only been playing with one daughter and her boyfriend.
My 8 year old boy is very interested in it so I got him started and my wife and I limit his play time and block social interactions so he can just run around and quest.
My friend used to play with his daughter, she was a little younger when she started. We mainly would take her on gear runs so she could dress up her char, when she got a little better we took her into dungeons and BGs.
I used to, but some changes to the game have caused changes to our behavior. It is no longer rated as a family-friendly game, as contrasted to our cultural and religious values, so I no longer play it with the grandkids, but only the kids whom are old enough to see thru the normalization psyops at play in the latest expansion.
As a family, we’re not thrilled with the lack of cultural sensitivity shown by the game designers, in forcing certain aberrant behaviors on young minds that will not see that it’s just an attempt to normalize activities we find to be unvirtuous and therefor do not condone.
So what happened is that the game was used as an educational tool - this is what they want to do, this is what they want you to think - it’s a pscyhological trick, just another way the environment we’re in is trying to erode our tradtional beliefs. You’ll see this at school, in movies, and pretty much everywhere nowadays, and when it makes you angry or confused, talk to your parents or us, and we’ll explain what the western anything-goes culture is doing, why it’s not beneficial, what the karmic repercussions of emulating them are likely to be… Etc, etc.
Lotta angles of attack these days; wow used to be safe, but now it’s just one more, too.
I finally got my 22 y.o. to play after 15+ years of trying. We are both kind of on a holding pattern for next patch right now but he turned out to be a very good player and we had a blast in M+ in season 1.
