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Originally Posted by ElissaLowe
LOL - people will join eventually...the place is far from ready yet. In fact, Number One Son (he's "Deadly Spike") crashed the arcade at least half a dozen times yesterday. He racked up a score of nearly 60,000 on Space Invaders, for example, which the database apparently couldn't handle. So even though he's the declared champion on most of the games now, the posted scores aren't even close to his top scores.
Actually I only have one son: Nick's a gurl like me  . Ryan is 17, Nick is 14.
Ryan's into online gaming and war simulation games, rock climbing, history/politics and chemistry/physics. "Deadly Spike" is his user name over at Obsidian Dragon.
Nick's in gifted ed, and a born writer - which is a blessing and curse...obviously, it's a blessing to have a creative child. But her teachers get cheezed because when she's bored in class (which is often), she'll pull out her notebook and start writing instead of listening to them.
They're both interesting people...there's a pervasive myth that teenagers are tough to deal with. TBH, I had a harder time dealing with them as younger children. They're people now, with their own thoughts and opinions, and we have a lot to talk about. |
Sounds like two great kids you have there. Are they athletic too? My boy is 9 now and is starting to get ideas about things. It's amusing to see how he uses his understanding of things to reason. Other times it's bothersome to see how he trys to manipulate things his way.
I am encouraging him to play outside as much as possible and enjoy an active lifestyle rather than stay inside and watch tube and play electronic games. Occasionaly he whines a bit cause we don't have the gadgets around that other kids at school have, but then I just challenge him to some hoop, catch, silly bike tricks or just plain tag outside and he quickly forgets what it was he was "deprived" of.