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Hi all,
My girlfriend is currently eight and a half months pregnant. The due-date is August 10th, which happily, is also my birthday. We've been told there's a very good chance (although hospitals in the UK are no longer allowed to tell people the gender with certainty) that we'll be having a little girl. If so, she'll be named Indie.
Fantasy has always been a passion of mine, I read 'The Hobbit' when I was eight and I've been hooked ever since. Luckily, I grew up with a bunch of friends that were also interested in this kind of thing. Naturally, our hobbies progressed from computer games, to Games Workshop, to D&D. Some of my friends would be regarding as 'Geeky' (if I can use such a term on Blessed Ground such as this) and people have commented previously that they could be deemed so because of their hobbies.
Now, I've worked in an RPG store on and off for six years now, and I have to note (although obviously, slightly biased) that the average intelligence of a gamer seems to outshine the average intelligence of the local populas. If that's the case, the term 'geek' is rendered utterly irrelevant and laughable. I've pondered before the possible correlation between imagination and intelligence, is this something others have evere thought about?
To the crux of the problem; my girlfriend and I have talked about bringing up our first child on gaming. It'd be very easily to implement as kids rely so much on their parents for guidance and inspiration. The way I see it, one minute I'd be slogging through 'Lord of the Rings' as a bed time story, the next minute I'd be buying her very first set of (pink?) dice. How many of you fellow ENWorlders have kids? How many of you encourage your kids to follow in your footsteps in this manner? We hear so bloody much about 'Leave people to make their own choices' and 'Don't push your hobbies/thoughts/beliefs onto others!' these days - about anything! - that I almost feel strangely guilty leading my child-to-be down this irreversible and addictive path of roleplaying!
I read in one thread here once (although I can't remember names) of one guy who DM'd for his kids, that really plucked at my heartstrings, talk about quality time together!
So what I see is it'd be an enjoyable hobby for her, a mind-expanding exercise, a hobby that her and I could spend time together on and the trade off for this is possibly having other kids call her a geek.
I know this post is long enough already so I'll leave it there, what do you all think of that?
As ever, thanks for reading.
EDIT: Cleaned up my faulty keyboard's mistakes, heheh.
My girlfriend is currently eight and a half months pregnant. The due-date is August 10th, which happily, is also my birthday. We've been told there's a very good chance (although hospitals in the UK are no longer allowed to tell people the gender with certainty) that we'll be having a little girl. If so, she'll be named Indie.
Fantasy has always been a passion of mine, I read 'The Hobbit' when I was eight and I've been hooked ever since. Luckily, I grew up with a bunch of friends that were also interested in this kind of thing. Naturally, our hobbies progressed from computer games, to Games Workshop, to D&D. Some of my friends would be regarding as 'Geeky' (if I can use such a term on Blessed Ground such as this) and people have commented previously that they could be deemed so because of their hobbies.
Now, I've worked in an RPG store on and off for six years now, and I have to note (although obviously, slightly biased) that the average intelligence of a gamer seems to outshine the average intelligence of the local populas. If that's the case, the term 'geek' is rendered utterly irrelevant and laughable. I've pondered before the possible correlation between imagination and intelligence, is this something others have evere thought about?
To the crux of the problem; my girlfriend and I have talked about bringing up our first child on gaming. It'd be very easily to implement as kids rely so much on their parents for guidance and inspiration. The way I see it, one minute I'd be slogging through 'Lord of the Rings' as a bed time story, the next minute I'd be buying her very first set of (pink?) dice. How many of you fellow ENWorlders have kids? How many of you encourage your kids to follow in your footsteps in this manner? We hear so bloody much about 'Leave people to make their own choices' and 'Don't push your hobbies/thoughts/beliefs onto others!' these days - about anything! - that I almost feel strangely guilty leading my child-to-be down this irreversible and addictive path of roleplaying!
I read in one thread here once (although I can't remember names) of one guy who DM'd for his kids, that really plucked at my heartstrings, talk about quality time together!
So what I see is it'd be an enjoyable hobby for her, a mind-expanding exercise, a hobby that her and I could spend time together on and the trade off for this is possibly having other kids call her a geek.
I know this post is long enough already so I'll leave it there, what do you all think of that?
As ever, thanks for reading.
EDIT: Cleaned up my faulty keyboard's mistakes, heheh.
