http://www.gamermom.com Good parenting, in game! Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:17:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just arrived home from Seoul - and since I haven't had time to actually blog about it I'll post a quick teaser... I found the most wonderful toy store - Kinki Robot- built for geeks and collectors. Here you can find small plastic figures that are the 2008 equivalent ... http://www.gamermom.com/2008/03/31/parenting/gamers-and-geeks-in-seoul/ Earlier today, 240 characters in the massively multi-player online game World of Warcraft gathered together for a rally that spanned continents in their virtual world. Even as I type that, I realize just how foreign most of what I've just said must sound. But yes - 240 ... http://www.gamermom.com/2008/01/03/parenting/ron-paul-rally-in-world-of-warcraft-or-how-your-child-is-likely-to-learn-about-political-candidates/ If 15 years ago someone told me how I was going to spend the morning of December 15th, 2007, I would dismissed them in a haughty fashion: "Donna, in 15 years you will wake up at 5:45am on a Saturday morning to stand in line with a bunch of tired parents ... http://www.gamermom.com/2007/12/15/parenting/hannah-montana-not-this-christmas/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Can you see the bowling ball heading for the tub?, originally uploaded by donna_k_kidwell. Remember Mousetrap? The crazy contraption game that never quite ... http://www.gamermom.com/2007/10/22/parenting/ever-played-mousetrap/ Gamermom has been on an unannounced hiatus as I finished up my Master's degree.   DING!   My family was just fantastic through all the nights of reading and fighting my risk analysis homework.   The boys willingly played on my World of Warcraft account and saved up gold and rune cloth for me. ... http://www.gamermom.com/2007/06/06/parenting/andwere-back/ Anyone who's tried boxing on Wii Sports won't be surprised that the research is showing genuine fitness benefits with the Wii. It's not only fun - it's quite a bit of work! Wii - Kids Burn 40% More Calories Says Research New research commissioned by Liverpool John Moores University has shown ... http://www.gamermom.com/2007/02/19/parenting/wii20e2809320kids20burn20402520more20calories20says20research20-20news20at20spongcom/ Central Texas is experiencing an ice storm. The city is shut down and for the first time all year, the kids can not wait to get outside and stomp on ice puddles. There are flurries outside, with big flakes that we simply never see here. Jack and Harry were ... http://www.gamermom.com/2007/01/16/parenting/a-lot-of-ice-a-little-snow-and-a-winter-expedition-for-burning-crusades/ Turns out my son has found it far easier to play Dragonball Z - Budokan Techkaichi 2 - using the Wavebird wireless controllers that we bought for our Gamecube, rather than learning to use the wiimote. Flying, moving around and generally doing 'cool stuff' was just too difficult. It ... http://www.gamermom.com/2007/01/14/parenting/dragonball-z-budokai-tenkaichi-2-wii-remote-or-old-school-controllers/ My son just started his own blog - Epic Pants. He'll be talking about his latest obsessions, Magic the Gathering and Word of Warcraft. MTG is a trading card game we began playing the year he was born, and we picked it back up this fall and introduced him to ... http://www.gamermom.com/2007/01/06/parenting/a-new-blog/ Wii wins again... We were checking our weather forecast tonite on our Wii, which always ends up in a spin around the globe. Epiphany exclaimed, "Easter Island Really Exists! I didn't know that!" She's thrilled and now we're out on Wikipedia exploring the mysteries of Easter Island: Easter Island ... http://www.gamermom.com/2007/01/02/parenting/easter-island-really-exists/