PSoroosh@... wrote
different and worth spending some time thinking about. And - there is an obsessive quality to them -- that is absent in other kinds of games. I think THAT is the crux of the anxiety that parents sometimes feel -- it makes us uncomfortable when our kids ar! e obsessive about anything. Why?
Normally I'm a lurker, but this really cracked me up. Nine years ago, when ds was a baby, dh and I went on vacation for a week, using a condo that his dad had given us his timeshare for. We were really poor and couldn't afford to do anything, so we borrowed some board games from the main office of the timeshare place. We ended up getting totally obsessed with Monopoly and played it all day and half the night for six days in a row! We stopped only to eat, sleep, and tend to ds (who was young enough that he slept most of the time). I have never, before or since, been so obsessed with a game. We still laugh about it. When my kids get obesessed with something, I try to figure out (just for my own curiosity) what need they are meeting at that particular time with their obsession. I still haven't figured out what need two 24-year-olds could have met by doing nothing but playing Monopoly, but it was sure fun!
Laurie in WA
