Claire Darbaud

Bonjour Robin,

My daughter is very much into Pokemon and I suspect she would love to
explore online pokemon roleplaying. Would you be willing to share some info
on the game?

Regards
Claire

2011/8/3 Robin Bentley <robin.bentley@...>

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> > I object to the use of the term "screen time" because it discounts
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> > demeans what the person is actually doing.
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> I agree. It's an easy catch-all term with not much thought behind it.
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> > People talk as if being "outside" doing absolutely anything is better
> > than having "screen time." Really? That's just so obviously lame.
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> If I insisted that Senna "get outside" instead of being at her
> computer right now, I'd be stopping her from doing something really
> nice for her Pokemon friends. Some of them are having birthdays around
> this time, so she's drawing pictures of their favorite Pokemon as
> gifts. She's also planning out a "group photo" of the Pokemon
> roleplayers's characters to celebrate the first anniversary of the
> (online) roleplay's beginning. She's arranging them by color dots at
> the moment, to balance out the similar colors in the picture before
> she goes ahead to actually sketch out each character.
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> I would be interrupting her creative process by nudging her to go out.
> I would be interrupting her from forging some important connections
> with those players, as she thinks about each one of them and their
> stories for their characters.
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> But one of the worst things that could happen is she'd resent me and
> my agenda for her. That wouldn't help our relationship, at all.
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> Robin B.
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