Parenting

Parentcaster

What age did you start letting your kids play video games?

What's the best progression from 0 to building cool stuff in Minecraft?

I let her play a crappy little alphabet/numbers/colour learning game (LeapLand Adventures from Leap Frog) when she was 3, and it helped her hand-eye coordination, but she got super frustrated (the controls did suck).

At 4 we started playing Mario Odyssey on Switch (she's the un-killable hat) and she LOVED it.  She loves the teamwork and exploring and the fact that she is un-killable.  We actually just beat Bowser recently, so it was like 1.5 years of game time.

Her little sister is 3 now and we all play Mario together.  The older one has fun telling the younger one what to do.

I mentioned Minecraft to my wife and she's super-anti, so that likely won't happen for awhile.

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Out of curiosity, what's the anti about Minecraft as a game? (Even in creative mode?)

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Maybe start them off from some of the half finished OSS Minecraft clones and slowly wean them into the real thing 😹

She worries about them having too much screen time