I'm so happy to be on this list! Already I'm fascinated by the
conversation!
I have a twelve year old son, Julian, who is really into games,
particularly Dungeons and Dragons, which we actually play as a family
quite often. (I played in college a bit.) This morning he spent
hours with his books, a notebook, and a calculator developing a D&D
militia, where he figured out how many people and horses and other
equipment he wanted, bought them a boat to bring them across water,
figured out how many boats he would need (went to dictionary to
determine how many pounds in a ton, since I didn't remember), figured
out how much horses weighed (online, because I don't have a clue),
etc. This wasn't even for a particular game...it was just play! At
one point he laughed and said, "Hey, mama! I'm doing math!"
Yep, among other things.
Kathryn Baptista
