Comments on: Alex the Bunnyslayer!

By: Aleysha

Aleysha — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:37:11 +0000

My 3-yr old has a rogue of his own but his current passion is my lvl 30 druid. I spend hours with him sitting on my lap running around in travel form and going cat or bear to kill spiders and wolfs (his favourite targets) and swimming around lakes with the camera tilted so he can see the “seal”. He insists on driving the toon himself and does rather well.

I’ve heard him explain to a classmate of his that the yellow cat is to go faster and the black cat is to kill. That you should go one, two, three, three, THREE, THREEEEE! and then the wolf is dead. All with expansive gestures of claws raking and loud growling in between. I’ve been waiting since then to be called by his teacher and the other kids’s mum to explain them a thing or two…

By: Soph

Soph — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:08:49 +0000

BBB – that is HILARIOUS! It makes me look forward to teaching our kids how to play computer games. Great blog, thank you for writing it!

By: Nichadaemus

Nichadaemus — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:27:53 +0000

I started playing WoW just after BC was released after being invited by a co-worker. My daughters went from looking over my shoulder to wanting their own accounts. They even talked my wife into playing with us (and she was envious at how much time we were spending together.) Fast foward to today, we have 4 accounts and multiple 80′s. We play as a family often, and have WoW night at the inlaws big round table (a circle of laptops) as aunts and uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces all play together. As the family Teady Tank, WoW has brought us together more, and honestly has been a great educational tool fo the children. The point is to play together. The family that slays together, stays together!!

By: Phaedra

Phaedra — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:36:49 +0000

Our guild’s “mascot” (GM’s now 3-year-old son) has his own character in the guild. However, more than playing his character, he likes to play his mom’s level 80 raiding lock. There’s a video posted on our guild’s website of him playing her lock, in BT, killing creatures. He knows to hit 1, then 2, then loot. There’s also a video of him at around age 2, helping his dad kill pig-men.

Yay for baby geeks and gamers!

By: Stupid Mage

Stupid Mage — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:20:53 +0000

My sons tell me I can’t kill bunnies or squirrels or other low lvl critters.

But I MUST go out of my way to kill rats.

By: Skiannach

Skiannach — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:06:26 +0000

Alex will be well prepared when Blizz decide that they need another Monty Python boss and introduce the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

By: Charity

Charity — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:49:52 +0000

Hah, that is so great! I have a pic of my daughter, who wasn’t more than 20 months at the time, playing LotRO when her daddy left his keyboard down once. She knows the mouse moves the cursor and knows that you press hotbar buttons, but she tries to press them with her finger (like she does on the iPod), so she hasn’t done much damage yet. Thanks for a glimpse of what we have to look forward to.

By: Maebius

Maebius — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:28:17 +0000

this is priceless!
MY own 6yr old plays my 80 (questgreens still) farming hunter. his favorite place is to go to Dragonsblight and just keep killing the huge crab on that little island near the Tuskarr village. Over, and over, and over. He actually tamed it the first time, so I think he jsut enjoys knowing he’s killing the crab with itself, or something.
Favorite tactic? Snake trap, Explosive Trap, and serpent sting before running into Melee and smacking until dead. Forever in ViperAspect so “I don’t run out of blue spells” (mana)

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:09:24 +0000

Tanya, I suppose I should clarify that I wasn’t referring to 1st grade teachers in general, I’m taking a shot at our child’s 1st grade teacher in particular.

And sadly, I don’t think she’s a bad teacher, either. She’s just… scary. People who are judgmental over issues they are utterly ignorant of, and are placed in a position of guidance and instruction over those unable to make an informed decision on their own, scare me.

Or, as Al Pacino said in the amazing film “Scent of a Woman”;

“Makers of men, creators of leaders, be careful what kind of leaders you’re producing here.”

By: Tanya

Tanya — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:32:11 +0000

This is too cute! As a first-grade, WoW-playing teacher, I would not be spying and judging, but overhearing and laughing. :) Thanks for the laugh!