Re: Training kids to build
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:54 pm
MineCraft.
My son is 9 and I had to deal with this also. I taught my son to weld at age 7 and since I own a plumbing company he's been around all things mechanical since he was born. But once MineCraft hit the scene he became really absorbed in to it. He kinda forgot everything else and I wasn't real happy with it.
But then I realized his buddies in school are all in to this so if I can't beat em, join em. I've never liked video games but I decided to take part in my Son's passion by asking him questions and being part of an active conversation at least. What happened was that he joined me in the garage again and we work on airplane stuff and talk about MineCraft also. Of course, I'd rather stay focused on airplanes :lol: but for a kid his buddies are also important and at the moment EVERYBODY seems to be doing MineCraft.
Funny thing, I don't know much about video games but the graphics on MineCraft look like something out of the 1980's :lol:
My son is 9 and I had to deal with this also. I taught my son to weld at age 7 and since I own a plumbing company he's been around all things mechanical since he was born. But once MineCraft hit the scene he became really absorbed in to it. He kinda forgot everything else and I wasn't real happy with it.
But then I realized his buddies in school are all in to this so if I can't beat em, join em. I've never liked video games but I decided to take part in my Son's passion by asking him questions and being part of an active conversation at least. What happened was that he joined me in the garage again and we work on airplane stuff and talk about MineCraft also. Of course, I'd rather stay focused on airplanes :lol: but for a kid his buddies are also important and at the moment EVERYBODY seems to be doing MineCraft.
Funny thing, I don't know much about video games but the graphics on MineCraft look like something out of the 1980's :lol: