Wednesday 31 August 2016

Minecraft is destroying our sanity


My boyfriend's 7 year old daughter (only child) is absolutely obsessed with being on the computer, Minecraft, and Minecraft videos on YouTube.She will not talk about anything else. She is not even remotely interested in anything else. My boyfriend and I are constantly trying to engage her in other activities; for example: my boyfriend loves baseball, so he brought home a tee ball post and is trying to teach her how to play catch and hit the ball. She will spend maybe 20 minutes outside before complaining that she wants to go back on the computer and play Minecraft.We've tried teaching her how to ride a bike (at age 7 she is nowhere close to being able to ride without assistance which I find odd) with the same results.I've tried getting her involved in crafts, like making beaded jewelry, origami, etc. After a day she's bored of it and it's back to Minecraft.She used to love to draw, but over the last year or so, her interest has severely dwindled. She got a ton of art supplies for Christmas and hasn't touched them. I can't remember the last time she drew a picture.We've received complaints from her teachers at school that all she talks about is Minecraft.We take her to the park to try and meet other kids, and all she wants to talk about is Minecraft to the point where other kids will just walk away from her.It's impossible to have a conversation with her, because no matter what you are talking about, she will perpetually try to turn the conversation to Minecraft.Even at the strangest of times, she will interject Minecraft into the conversation. A few nights ago we were eating dinner and watching a movie (Addams Family) and she kept trying to interrupt the movie with stuff about Minecraft. This is constant. Every conversation.Due to all of this, my boyfriend and I had a long talk together as well as with his daughter's mother and we all decided to limit her computer time to the weekends, at least during the school year. We were hoping that, when she gets home from school we could have family time instead - watch movies, play board games, read books, just do stuff together and get her interested in new things.. but no matter what we try to do together, all she cares about is Minecraft.We don't know what else to do. Any attempts at introducing her to things are met with a "meh" attitude. Any attempts at family time are met with resistance. We are extremely sick of Minecraft.Any suggestions before we lose our minds? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2bD7p5j

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