Computer/Console games with your kids

[OnyxCougar]

My boys started watching me play Final Fantasy 7 and when I bought the strategy guide, they were the "driver" and I was the one hitting the buttons. It became their job to look up materia and where stuff was and what mobs were vulnerable to what, and so it was really something we did together, and increased their reading/fact finding skills. When I beat the game, we all had worked on it, so we all felt that satisfaction.

Then I started 8, then 9, then legend of dragoon, then legend of mana.

By then, they were playing legend of mana and chrono cross themselves.

Bryan (the autistic one) has a problem with imitating the games, but he gets one hour a day if he behaves at school, and that was the ONLY way to make him behave. He's a musical savant (mild) and he learns songs and music VERY easily (nearly first time listening). Now that I have a keyboard again, I'm going to teach him piano and see where that takes him.