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By Julie
One of Alex's good friends at school told him about this online game called Pokemon Crater, and now he's hooked on it. They've swapped user names but haven't friended each other yet. I'm sure that's soon to follow.
This is not the first online game Alex has played. There were at least two others before this. It didn't take him long to learn to ignore those flashing banners that pretend to look like video games or say things like, "You have won a _insert video game system here_ !" Meanwhile, Ana hasn't outgrown our educational CD-ROM collection yet, but she's gotten hooked on a math game site that Alex's teacher introduced to us. No obnoxious banners there, thankfully. She likes to click around randomly and insists on playing 3rd grade level -- she probably thinks the number 3 stands for age 3 -- and I only said yes after she promised not to badger us for help. Her computer doesn't even have Internet access, so she has to switch off with Alex. It's probably best that way at least until we're certain she can ignore flashing banners. I wonder when that will be. You have to see this adorable short film by Mud Films. It made my day. Labels: kids, nablopomo, parenting, toys 1 Comments: |
