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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 1258953" data-attributes="member: 2238">And so I sayeth "I can trace many of my social and academic problems back to gaming, and I don't want them to have those problems."Wow, this is really going to come back to haunt me... better clarify it.  In all it is a summary.  My experience with RPGs has been overwhelmingly positive.  It has given me strong relationships and given me an edge in planning and creativity.  Not to mention accounting.  However, it was very engrosing, and well, it made learning time management skills very difficult (at least for me) because I would just get lost in it.  A social life requires time and since I was spending most of it gaming (or in gaming related activites) my social circle was with the gamers in my group.  This was late elementry through junior high.  I straightened out in high school, but then discovered the hacker subculture and the rave scene.  THAT really put the kaibash on the grades...  (Bs and Cs instead of As and Bs)As for the social aspect I find that gaming encouraged me to look past peoples social abilities and allow them into my life.  This is not all bad.  However, when gaming (or anything else) is the sole determining factor of your social circle (i.e. gaming is how you make friends) then it can be detrimental.  As junior high went, gaming largely determined my close friends there and I believe that since I had that easy way of making friends ("hey, you game... wanna check out our group?") my social skills suffered and did not develop as fast as they could have.  However high school helped fixed that.  (I went to a rad high school).So basicly I would prefer it if my kid (fictional as he/she is) did not get so far into somthing that it presents the same challenges.  I think one of the reasons I got into it so much was that my age was in single digits when I first started playing.  I quit for a while but started up again in the very low double digits.  So I personally think that it is best to find it in the teens, and this is why I am so weird about not teaching my non-existant kids to play and letting them find it on thier own.  Aaron.</blockquote>

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