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In a message dated 4/18/2002 7:35:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> I still need your help with unschooling. My kids seem so focused on
> playing the computer. They are addicted to "The Sims". It is a very
> mentally stimulating game but prevents exposure to other things. It
> seems like as soon as I am done introducing them to something, they
> go back to playing on the computer.

Two of my kids (14 and 11) got a new SIMS expansion pack last night (they
split the cost) - I left them home all day today while I went off to the
ceramics studio. I called them every couple of hours - they played, happily
and TOGETHER, all day. They'll be obsessed with it for a while - that's okay,
it is very very cool and I don't blame them. But it won't last forever. After
a few weeks they'll still be into it - but not to play it for hours a day.
And, we go out of the house enough that they do take time off <G>.

The new one is SIMS Vacation and on sale at Best Buy for $29 plus there is a
$10 Best Buy Gift Card you get by mail. Just fyi <G>.

--pamS


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