sonyacurti

Thanks so much to all of you who replied to my recent "worry". I
think you all had wonderful points to make and it just ressures me
that I am on the right path.

Also, I have to tell you Sandra that this is the best money I have
spent since I started home schooling I can't tell you how much $$ I
have spent on stupid reading programs - still doesn't read.

He does have fun and I think he is so happy to be home to pursue what
he wants to. He exspressed wanting to go to school the other day
(before the games)- I asked him why and he couldn't tell me because
he didn't know LOL........ but he said what makes me not want to go
is that I don't want to do reading.

Sonya

24hrmom

<<Thanks so much to all of you who replied to my recent "worry". I
think you all had wonderful points to make and it just ressures me
that I am on the right path.>>

I'm glad you are feeling more comfortable with letting your son play his video games.

And don't forget to spend time with him while he's playing. Watching him play, playing multi-player games with him, and researching game help with him are great ways to spend time together. And I bet he'd enjoy watching you attempt one of his games on your own with him giving you advice and tips along the way. You'll get a first-hand look at what he enjoys about the games and a better appreciation for what he's learning. As well as being able to understand what he's talking about and truly connecting with him when he runs into the room to happily exclaim he just did such-and-such. :-)

I think he'll love that, and you'll feel much more a part of the whole video game deal.

Pam L


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In a message dated 9/29/03 6:22:41 AM, jcurtielectric@... writes:

<< Also, I have to tell you Sandra that this is the best money I have

spent since I started home schooling I can't tell you how much $$ I

have spent on stupid reading programs - still doesn't read. >>

Both my boys learned to read directly because of video games, magazines and
game guides. I strongly recommend that you buy game guides if your kids want
them. That's also how my boys learned:

deductive reasoning (From figuring out which of eight patterns the Mario
bonus round was. It wasn't random, there were only eight--all shown in the book,
and if they made good first choices, they could figure out which pattern it
was and fill it all in without "losing," and that got them into high levels of
the game they couldn't have found by guessing.)

map reading (from following the maps of the screens, shown fully in the book)

alphabetical order (Kirby bought the index to Nintendo Power magazine, with
his own money, before he could read, so I could find articles for him in back
issues)

literary notation (I don't know what else to call this, but in the index, an
issue and page number were shown in this format: 22: 17 for issue 22, page
17. Because of that, Shakespeare act/scene/line notation and Biblical John
3:16 make simple sense to them, and the idiomatic phrase "he cited me chapter
and verse" refers to that notation too.)

Nowadays, this might be better accomplished on websites which will have
references, maps, "walk-throughs" and so forth, but I still recommend game guides
for kids to learn all kinds of things (and get through the games more easily).


Sandra