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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 4358572" data-attributes="member: 13855">Go back and look at the OP's post. 11 of them are things that gamers without children should do. Just 1 is on the responsibility that the parents have towards the rest of the group. That may help explain why there are posters arguing that parents have some responsibilities to their friends too. That's because those posters aren't taking the parents at their word in the face of their own experience of what gaming with children is like. Parents have several years of training to deal with and compartmentalize the particular distractions provided by kids. The childless gamers have built up no such resistances, so they likely feel it more.I game in a group with a dog and two babies. I love my friends dearly and their kiddies and pets very much. But they'd be the first to admit that it does impact the game in a variety of ways big and small. We deal with it because we love each other and we love gaming even when it's distracted from by these factors. But when posters claim that it's just like having too much Mountain Dew or cracking lame jokes? I'm sorry, but it comes across as a parent's rationalization to me.</blockquote>