Hubby and I have always said that Dude did not need video games, Gameboys, etc. I mean, he’s 6! He should be running around outside playing with the neighborhood kids . . . which he does every single weekend. It’s great! When he begged for a Webkin we said no . . . so he came home from school one day with a folded piece of paper that he’d drawn on. He gave me a detailed explanation of what exactly he was holding . . . he had drawn a screen on the inside with the URL for Webkinz and the entire Webkinz screen, as well as a keyboard with all the letters, spacebar, shift, Enter, etc. Basically, he’d made himself a laptop with Webkinz on it! He then informed me “It’s a Dell.” That just about made me run off the road. Queen Taunya was nice enough to get him a Webkin for Christmas (he loves it, and actually, it’s not a bad site.) When he asked for a Gameboy, we said no - he did not need one. He’s good about not begging for stuff - no means no. However, he did come home from school with, you guessed it, a piece of paper on which he’d drawn his own Gameboy!
Before our vacation to Puerto Rico, Hubby and I (reluctantly) decided to get him a Gameboy for the 6 hours we’d be spending on the airplane. We eBayed and won an auction for a Gameboy Advance SP and 50 games for $60! Woo hoo! We didn’t give it to him until we got on the airplane. He was ECSTATIC! And he did great learning how to use it on his own and putting it away before we told him he needed to take a break.
Now comes the hard part . . . how do we regulate the use at home? If it were up to me, I’d tell him he can’t ever use it - he’s only 6! 
But I know that won’t fly . . . especially now that he knows it exists. Dan thinks we should give him access to it like we do the computer . . . he has to ask if he can use it first and then we’ll give him some sort of time limit.
Again, if it were up to me, he wouldn’t be playing any video game type things, but we’ve given him access to the computer and WE were the ones who bought him the actual Gameboy rather than making him continue to draw his games 
How do you regulate your child’s use of computers/video games/Gameboys? Any and all advice is appreciated!
I wish I could pull that stuff off….like Jason does. It’s hard to continue giving hints to the wife that I need a new car.
Maybe I could create a cardboard box XTerra and drive it around the driveway?
Remember when we made the cardboard car (or was it a bus?) for Halloween?
Ah yes - the Prize Patrol! HAHAHAHAHA! It still makes me laugh - that was a hoot! I’ll have to find that photo and post it.
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