Friends of ours who are rearing three daughters asked what video games / platforms I would recommend. That’s a good question. Some parents are completely indiscriminate concerning video games, letting their children play whatever they like. Others fall into the opposite category, keeping their children in the dark about video game platforms.

This made me think back to when Tim was a child. Laurel and I had seen children whose very lives seemed to revolve around video games. That wasn’t something we wanted for our children. But we didn’t want to take an anti-computer-game position. Having an engineer’s heart (if not the degree), I wanted my children to be as comfortable as possible with today’s technology. So we set up some ground-rules that addressed the issue: Continue reading →