starting sc at 5 year old - Page 2

On March 10 2014 05:44 pebble444 wrote:
Make sure he playes terran. No but seriously, what about starting playing a musical instrument too

On March 10 2014 02:52 Liquid`Drone wrote:
playing challenging games from a young age is good. I think you're best off restricting it to single player with a 5 year old though. I also think first person shooter games should be avoided when you're that young, imo they should pretty much all be avoided until kids are ~10. but starcraft is great, it's very challenging and not really that much more violent than chess. Most grindy games should be avoided too I think, cuz they're just too much of a timesink compared to the reward - you prolly develop more by doing practically anything than you do from 500 hours of single player diablo 3.

Like, I really don't think there's any point in forcing your kid to go play in the sandbox instead of playing minecraft, but you must be cautious that minecraft doesn't make your kid play 10 hours straight in the sandbox - which he normally would find boring.

On March 10 2014 05:52 enord wrote:

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... now lets see.. shhift ... mmkay ... mmmmkay

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On March 10 2014 08:00 enord wrote:
prove it
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did he tackle issues pertaining to difficult subjects? ... mmm yes

did he change the world.. ? mmm a small elitist part maybe

did he tackle children vs violence of the world (mmmm can't remember if he did lol !! sh t!!! hahahahahhaa sorry)

i brought it up becuse of your interest in my caligraphy

isn't sort of pompous a line (your post), how would gilles have rated it?

On March 10 2014 09:23 obesechicken13 wrote:
If a child starts playing games when he's young I think there's a high chance he'll become a gamer when he's older. Possibly he will be heavily invested in games. Games are addicting, they're designed to be.

Personal experience. But it sounds like you are taking strides to raise him well.

On March 10 2014 08:46 Endymion wrote:
right, and your opinion if he's worse off or better off is your call as a father, i'm just saying that it's not a bad way to spend time.. that said you're going to find biased results because you're on tl, but i dont see how acting singing or gardening is better for him as an economic entity (or a philosophical entity) 10 or 15 years down the road.. if you're looking for return on your investment, starcraft is a great way to go for your son

On March 10 2014 19:01 icystorage wrote:
i started playing sc:bw at a young age too even played other games before that. around high school i started playing football (soccer) and was kind of hooked into sports, if im not playing sports right now im gaming. i kind of regretted i didnt start sports at an earlier age, it really helped me physically and socially. i hope you also get him into sports!

On March 11 2014 04:36 Iplaythings wrote:
I first experienced computer games when I was 3 years old. I can tell you that I was clueless as fuck in Civ 1 and the Butcher at lvl 2 scared the fuck out of me into my dreams .

I played SC and Red Alert 1 when I was 4 .
Where am I now? 19 years old, pretty fit and about to enter university at september.
So it shouldn't be too bad for your kid.
Keep in mind that the kid might develop social connections online, which I had no one of till I was 9 and what kicked me out of shape for the first and only time in my life was when I had a very poor social life at school and I primarily found my social "needs" online. Until it comes to that and your kid still does other stuff, I wouldn't be worried.

On March 11 2014 06:10 LaNague wrote:
i can recommend something like transport tycoon.
It connects rational decisions and numbers with the fun of building a model railroad.
you can not know how people will turn out, you can give them a good start, but that's it ^^
How the brain forms all those connections and makes them into a personality is completely unknown to everyone, even in scientific (as much as they can be in that field ) psychology, they often have a "black box" model. Stuff goes in and then other stuff comes out. How? No idea.

On March 10 2014 00:44 vOdToasT wrote:
I played Command & Conquer and StarCraft when I was six, and I turned out fine. It's only one person, I know, but I felt like telling you anyway.

Just make damn sure you help him in school. Help him with his homework, ask him how he's doing (in a nice way so that he isn't scared to tell you), and if he is struggling, help him out. And talk to him about things he is going to encounter in life so that he can deal with them, like girls hitting on him , bad teachers, the school workload, and so on.