XBOX Live

[Cabreco]

Being retired I have a lot of time on my hands so just out of the blue...
How many of you are on XBox Live and what games do you play?

I bought my XBox after testing out a used GTA4 game I bought on Ebay for my 16 yr old & I was hooked.
I Play

Grand Theft Auto 4
Saints Row 3
Red Dead Redemption
to name a few, I know my son has a lot more games. (Call of Duty type shooters)

Hey if enough of us are online maybe we could share usertags & set up a party <lol>

[samir_nayanajaad]

I'm on xbox live same gamer tag as my user name, I have been mostly playing Forza 3, but have dead island, brink, COD Black ops.

[seestheday]

my tag is FinancedSciKo but I'm not on that much.  I have a 2 yr old son so I don't have a lot of spare time.

[Cabreco]

seestheday wrote

my tag is FinancedSciKo but I'm not on that much.  I have a 2 yr old son so I don't have a lot of spare time.

Ahh Toddler, when they are born all you want is for them to walk & talk, then all you want is for them to sit down & shut up! <lol>
Seriously ... I've been there! Best time of your life. Enjoy EVERY minute of it while you can, you can never get that back!...But beware the teenage years!

[seestheday]

Ya, it's pretty awesome.  During the week I feel like I don't get enough time with him, so almost every minute I can I'm doing stuff with him.

Oh, and if he's anything like I was when I was a teenager I'm going to be in for a wild ride.

[Half-Caf]

I recently got an xbox and Modern Warfare 3.
My live tag is MistahKeen -feel free to add me if you play!

[Piute]

 whats a xbox

[ksharp]

well for the few of us who are under 40 ?!?!?! LOL and also happen to ride cb750s that we own and were not our fathers lol, my tag is ksharp000 ill play some games with ya chew the fat

[Cabreco]

I just Realized I didn't add my gamertag.

It's CordingTuna68
Feel free to send me a friend request.
Just LMK your from the CB 750 board, I avoid unsolicited requests, they are usually little kids.

[Lucky 1]

Read to your kids. Do not let them just play video games.
My wife is a school teacher and many children now have no attention span at all.
She has to hold up an object, like a apple and ask them to tell her 3 things about the apple.
That is very hard for them to do.

The kids that do well can read well.

[seestheday]

Ya, my son isn't playing video games yet, and he will definitely be a reader.  He usually gets 5-6 stories throughout the night and loves them.  Usually 3 at bedtime, and 2 or 3 other during the evening.

That said, I don't think playing video games and being a prodigious reader are mutually exclusive.

When I was young I read a lot, played a fair amount of video games, and played a lot of sports and a lot outside.  It's amazing how much time you have as a kid isn't it?  I think I ended up alright (B.Sc. Physics, minor computer science, wrote software for years, then got into business analytics and now manage an analytics team for a major corp).

There is also some research indicating that people who grow up playing video games have a fundamentally different mindset than those who didn't (see http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_kids_are_alright.html?id=WFqdNEfJP8MC&redir_esc=y and http://books.google.ca/books?id=uxz6UU_AW3cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=got+game&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NOYdT5O4Oo-ctwfBzPSoCw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=got%20game&f=false for some pop versions of the research).  It essentially boils down to the mindset that all problems can be solved with enough clever work.  Everything can be approached as a puzzle to be solved.  Failure isn't really a problem because you can just reset the game, so they aren't afraid to take chances either.  You have to play the right types of games though, and of course learn other skills in other areas.

Video games aren't necessarily bad, but if you just let your kid be raised by them you'll run into lots of issues.  Same thing with TV.  There has always been bad parenting, now its just easier to do.

[shinyribs]

Well put Sees'. Good on you for being a realistic parent. Sounds like a lucky kid.