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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5073170" data-attributes="member: 20741">My daughters are old enough to dismiss it as &quot;Dad you are such a geek&quot;. From time to time, I have dragged them into gaming shops when with me. My eldest daughter, now 20 yrs old, was mortified when I did this to her when she was 17. My 17 year old daughter is not quite so embarassed to have a gamer for a father, but occasionally she just shakes her head in mock disgust.My boys are much younger and are a different kettle of fish. My 11 yr old wants to play - and I let him. He thinks it totally rocks. I have toiled long and hard with my eldest son and I have been well rewarded. He's a gamer. Pure and simple.&nbsp; Every new book, every new die, every new mini - and every new boardgame-&nbsp; is a reason to ooh aah and get majorly excited.&nbsp; (He is also much better at twitch video games than I am too, which leads to much hilarity and parental abuse, but I digress.)My four year old son thinks the minis are especially cool. Ordinarily, I would praise his developed taste in geeky toys and this would not be an issue, except for one problem. If left to his own devices, he will lose my miniatures and dice all over the house -- to vanish into the same tessaract space where the tops of ballpoint pens, single black socks and bic lighters go when they wink out of existence in this dimension.Result: I need to work on the four year old's respect for gaming stuff; alternatively, I need to learn to put my gaming stuff away better <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 5073170, member: 20741"] My daughters are old enough to dismiss it as "Dad you are [I]such[/I] a geek". From time to time, I have dragged them into gaming shops when with me. My eldest daughter, now 20 yrs old, was mortified when I did this to her when she was 17. My 17 year old daughter is not quite so embarassed to have a gamer for a father, but occasionally she just shakes her head in mock disgust. My boys are much younger and are a different kettle of fish. My 11 yr old wants to play - and I let him. He thinks it totally rocks. I have toiled long and hard with my eldest son and I have been well rewarded. He's a gamer. Pure and simple. Every new book, every new die, every new mini - and every new boardgame- is a reason to ooh aah and get majorly excited. (He is also much better at twitch video games than I am too, which leads to much hilarity and parental abuse, but I digress.) My four year old son thinks the minis are [I]especially[/I] cool. Ordinarily, I would praise his developed taste in geeky toys and this would not be an issue, except for one problem. If left to his own devices, he will lose my miniatures and dice all over the house -- to vanish into the same tessaract space where the tops of ballpoint pens, single black socks and bic lighters go when they wink out of existence in this dimension. [B]Result:[/B] I need to work on the four year old's [I]respect for gaming stuff[/I]; alternatively, I need to learn to put my gaming stuff away better :) [/QUOTE]

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