As I mentioned last week, a Wii came to live at our house this Christmas. And, it is pretty much the most fun thing ever, despite the fact that my 5-year-old can kick my butt in bowling (because I have run-ruled him at baseball twice. So THERE!)
But. When it comes to my three-year-old, my little Sophie, we are having some Wii-lational difficulties. Sophie isn’t quite at the stage where she can play the games, but she is at the stage where she loves watching them. And by “loves”, I mean she is utterly obsessed. Yesterday she spent a good part of the day trying to convince me to play, since her brother had gone back to school and wasn’t there to entertain her with Mario Kart, or her favorite, Super Mario Bros. She throws huge, heartbroken crying fits when we turn it off, or if we tell her it’s not time to play.
Instead of playing with all of her fabulous toys on her fabulous new shelf, she goes over to said shelf and stares longingly at the top level where we keep the Wii stuff, out of her reach.
It’s very fun to listen to her cute commentary on all the games (“Nice spare, mama!” on bowling, or more often, “Whoops. Try again!” and “Be careful Joshua!” on MarioKart), but I can’t sit around playing Wii all day, as much as I’d like to, and she shouldn’t be staring at Wii all day instead of playing.
The last couple of days my little stubborn miss has let me know just how displeased she is with the decreasing volume of Wii-watching in her life. So, the battle is on! And it’s much less fun than a Wii tennis match!
As much as I love the computer and the power it has to help us, video games are the spawn of Satan and had my mother in law not bought the first one, we would have none in the house.
I was addictied to PacMan back “in the day”, but no more!!!
Read The Dumbest Generation and see what video games have done…and look for the book review on Redneck Latte Ravings coming soon.
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HAHA! She is soooo cute- and a future project manager! Love your little girl!
My bestfriend’s three year old won’t go to bed unless his parents play at least two games of MarioKart. It’s pretty hilarious. He doesn’t play himself but loves to “backseat” drive and tell his parents what to do. It’s an interesting bedtime routine, but, hey, whatever works!
My little Sophie loves Mario, too. Since we only play after the kids go to bed, we let her stay up late last night to watch us play (complete with popcorn). It really was cute and could be addicting if I let myself turn it on during the day!
Who says you can’t play all day?!?
XOXO
I’m with Greis!! Who says you can’t entertain her all day! Seriously, you need to beat Mario don’t you?? That would give her a couple of weeks of entertainment! Just turn it off before the boys get home : )!
Stay strong, sistah!
I totally understand. I am having the same issue with my 2 1/2 year old daughter and the Wii…however our issue is that she wants to hold the controller and “doit self”. (Do it Herself) Which she obviously can’t…so most of the time..whoever is playing will just share 1 remote and let her hold the other.
Our Wii disappears in the evening…..until it is given permission to come out later…..maybe that might help?????