and so they grow up

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Conversation this morning:

Casper: How old do I have to be to get a Tendo DS?
me: Hmm, I don't know. What do you know about the Nintendo DS?
Casper: It has a little board that you hold and you can play video games and draw on it with a stick. If I was sick one day I could play with it and not be bored.
me: Does anyone you know have one?
Casper: No, none of my friends.
me: Maybe it's for kids who are a little bit older.
Casper: How old do I have to be in our house rules to get one?
me: Well, I don't know much about the Nintendo DS, so I'll need to get some more information about it to decide.

The house rules thing makes me laugh - we have one house rule about age, which is she can get her ears pierced at age 10 if she wants to.

I hate video games, though. I have childhood trauma around sexism, video games, and being ignored. So we'll have to see where we go with this.

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Little Bird got his when he was about six and half? seven? Most of his friends have them, and they are surprisingly, more social than I remember video games being. They all cluster around and play each other with them, and there's a lot of backseat gaming. He mostly plays Mario Cart (? maybe?) and various Pokemon games.