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Burn the house down, free steak
Send the kids to the mines, they’ll love it
His computer is going to explode!
Don’t have a cow, son
Children get upset about all kinds of things, and it’s important to help them understand and resolve their emotions, no matter how silly it is.
Eighty cows is a minor inconvenience at worst and like four stacks of steak at best.
So I feel like the confusion here isn’t just coming from how to handle the griefer child or how to get the cows out of the house. I think it’s more to do with the novelty of the situation.
Why is the child upset by this? Does he not like to kill cows in the game? Is there something preventing him from luring the cows out of the house? Was he just unpleasantly surprised by it and hadn’t thought through whether or not it was a big deal? There’s a lot of layers to this.
Or maybe this guy just never played Minecraft.
When I was a kid, I would always get in trouble for getting upset. No one ever wanted to know why I was upset. They just wanted me to shut the fuck up and I often had a hard time doing so. I really wish things would have been handled the way you describe. My siblings didn’t have the same problems as me in this way so it has always made me feel alone in feeling what I feel. Now as an adult, I never know if what I’m feeling is real and valid… usually I think it isn’t.
Anyway sorry that was only tangentially related.
I don’t think it’s tangentially related? You have effectively contrasted the Right Thing To Do comment with your experience of the Wrong Thing To Do as well as its terrible, lifelong impact.
I too had that flavor of (let’s say unkind) upbringing and now I devote every waking moment to tearing that garbage out of me and installing something more like what u/moakley described
Ah, you need a creeper!
Make it a learning opportunity; teach them come up with a solution. Kill the excess, or make a pen and leaf them into it, that kind of thing.
Sword with looting and fire aspect. Enjoy your leather and cooked steak.
Minecraft also confuses me. I am using Minecraft Pocket Edition APK right now.
Minecraft gets even more confusing when your friend tells you he’s got to go fish for some bees.
You can fish for bees in vanilla? I thought that was my Modpack being a dick and ruining my relaxation and angry bee sometimes.
They play ATM10
Start by not having your 5 year old play video games, and certainly not online.
As a parent with a 5 year old, Minecraft has been very educational for her. She’s learned some brilliant spelling and keyboard skills, building hand-eye coordination, etc. plus Minecraft can be limited to just single player or private servers (I have a private server setup just for my family for example) so they won’t be interacting with inappropriate content or unvetted individuals
I’m much less happy about Fortnite for example, since that has random voice chat, is always online and forced Windows-only via anti-cheat
Being exposed to other people is not the only problem with kids playing videogames. It’s mostly the instant-dopamine.
Best to get them desensitized to dopamine when they’re young. Less disappointment when they’re older.
Minecraft doesn’t have many of those instant dope hits if you limit what servers they can play on, instead having them favor single player, as train seems to be doing. If you’re going to let them play, I think Minecraft is one of the best options.
You literally punch things and they drop stuff. It may not seem like much but kids at that age are very susceptible. There’s a reason why psychologists started getting involved in children entertainment.
Maybe I’m parenting wrong, but my 5 year old has no idea what Minecraft is, let alone knows how to play it. The only video games she’s ever played is some Super Mario Bros 3 on a vacation once. She doesn’t even know how to do anything on our iPad except use the sketchpad app for drawing.
Some of my fondest memories as a young child are of playing video games with my older brothers. I’d love to let my kids have a similar experience with their siblings or parents. While there is nothing wrong with your style of parenting, there is also nothing wrong with letting them play video games as long as you’re being responsible.
And your style of parenting would be a lot harder if your 5 year old has older siblings.
What, how do you expect a kid to play and have fun if you don’t get them iPads and all the games and videos imaginable?! You soulless bastard…
/s just in case. Keep it up, you’re doing a good job my brother.
Right? And I’m over here failing as a parent by buying books and letting her play outside. /s
Well that’s entirely your fault, not her’s.
Is there really fault at play here? I mean, is playing Minecraft a life skill that’s vital for a 5 year old to learn?
I think the /s was silent in the post you replied to…
Vital? No.
But as a kid fiting in can be quite important, and sometimes fitting in means playing the games the other kids are playing.
My kid fits in just fine. She has plenty of friends.
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Bitch your fuckin profile picture is spagett!, if you can’t understand some oddity what broke you?
IT WAS A FULLY GROWN MAN
Maybe I’m parenting wrong, but my 5 year old has no idea what Download Minecraft APK is, let alone knows how to play it. The only video games she’s ever played is some Super Mario Bros 3 on a vacation once.
