Families and Gaming

Being a full time employee, full time student and full time spouse/parent makes life difficult sometimes. You worry that you miss out on important moments in your family's life and you don't always feel that you have spent enough time with each individual member of your family. It can add to your already high day to day stress.

 

This website is all about taking what you and your family are most likely doing on their own and making it  fun, positive and a healthy family experience. Playing games (either video games or board games) as a family could bring each individual in the family closer together, create wonderful learning experiences and open doors to important conversations that you need to have with your children.

 

I am currently (as of 9/16/15) 28 years old. I have a wonderful wife and three kids; Xander (8 yrs) Jadis (3 yrs) Liliana (2 yrs). One day I realized how awesome it was being a father. My realization happened while I was playing a video game getting some extra achievements on Halo 3 for the Xbox 360. I had an extra controller on the floor and my son (being 1 1/2 at the time) went for it. In doing so he accidentally pressed the Throw Grenade button killing my character instantly. I looked at him and thought to myself "that was the proudest moment I have had with him ... so far". Since then my Wife, Son and I have been playing games together and when we had two new bundles of joy we added them to into our family game time (Players 4 & 5 have entered the game).