wannabe
"Insignificant Other"
So, I caught up with some old college buddies last night. During our conversation, it came out that one of the guys started playing Dungeons and Dragons with his teen daughters and her friends. He is having a great time being the dungeon master for his kids. The kids are apparently really enjoying it. I was surprised to hear that it managed to make a resurgence. I guess that it made sense. All the geeky guys I knew growing up became engineers and had kids. It was only natural that their kids would eventually rediscover some stuff that their parents used to enjoy.
Have any of you parents found any of your old activities that were thought of as geeky are now becoming cool with your kids?
As for my buddy’s all-girl D&D group, he says that the girls are playing the game in a very different way. When he was a kid, he and his buddies wanted to blow through levels and kill everything in sight. In his daughter’s group, the girls spend a lot of time chatting with any townsfolk that they meet in the game with no real motivation to complete levels. Their fun is apparently in trying to throw curveballs at the dungeon master. :teeth
Have any of you parents found any of your old activities that were thought of as geeky are now becoming cool with your kids?
As for my buddy’s all-girl D&D group, he says that the girls are playing the game in a very different way. When he was a kid, he and his buddies wanted to blow through levels and kill everything in sight. In his daughter’s group, the girls spend a lot of time chatting with any townsfolk that they meet in the game with no real motivation to complete levels. Their fun is apparently in trying to throw curveballs at the dungeon master. :teeth