My kids love playing Minecraft together. The three of them sit on the sofa, meet up in the same world, and build things together. I can always hear how much fun they’re having. But after a while, a switch flips in my youngest, and he starts annoying his sisters in the game. Naturally, they don’t just take it. Things escalate, and before long they’re arguing.
The number one remedy is to grab all three of them and head outside into nature. And they’re actually just as happy to do that as they were to sit in front of their screens. Today, my eleven-year-old said to me: “That was so much fun again, being by the stream together.”
Experiences like this keep reminding me that we don’t have to demonize the digital world. It’s part of our children’s lives today. And at the same time, they love being in nature just as much.
It’s what we model for them 🤍
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