Video Gaming Journal
Why is a Mother Writing about Video Games from a Parent’s Point of View?
As I’ve been reluctant to let video games enter our family realms (on consoles, tablets or phones on a regular basis), I have often asked myself why I feel the irresistible urge to document our experience of playing video games with our children, as a family game, as a coop sibling game, or in any other setting where children, pre-teens or tweens play games. Since the end of the year 2020 (w...[Read More]
How our Family Gaming Story Began
After 9 months into the Great Lockdown year, in November 2020, we began our family gaming story – until then, we had had a mostly video game free life, gently surrounding our family free time with HUGE thorny bushes to protect them from ‘THE VIDEO GAMES’. I felt like a warrior, a mum amazon fighting against the pressure of growing screen times. What mother would want to nurture a...[Read More]