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	wrongly_amused 2006-03-22 03:04 am UTC (link)
	Dude...just because the parents have a hobby outside of their children doesn't mean they're abandoning the little guys. The fact that the mother has a "crisis" in the first place suggests she's taking care of them. Believe it or not, human offspring are not aliens that assimilate the parents into impartial entities. They still remain, y'know, individual people. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	iwanttobeasleep 2006-03-22 03:19 am UTC (link)
	TiVo was invented so we could work TV shows around our schedules. Won't someone please invent something to make video games do the same? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	dawnswalker 2006-03-22 03:24 am UTC (link)
	Well, if WoW had been serious about that /panda command, a Pandaren Warrior could bring them all Chinese food and the problem would have been solved! (Reply to this)

xero_sky
2006-03-22 03:39 am UTC (link)

Honestly, your parenting skills SHOULD be questioned. You know why kids struggle with depression, low self confidence, lonliness, confusion, early pregnancys, drug addictions, and suicide? Because the American family is becoming extinct. Why? Because parents are swapping solid, family time for guild raids and various other selfish pursuits.

Cats and dogs, living together... mass hysteria!!

World of Warcraft -- the source of all that's wrong in America today.

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	marylake 2006-03-22 03:51 am UTC (link)
	What is wrong with teaching kids to eat when they're hungry? I mean, I understand that letting them eat whatever they want is bad, but if they're hungry and you have a generous supply of healthy stuff, argh, how the hell is that "bad eating habits"?! Sorry, sore spot. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	nlb_muffin 2006-03-22 03:51 am UTC (link)
	Arranging your whole family's schedule around a video game is rather alarming. But the sudden dramatic departures into nutrition and the state of the American family... uh... right. 'Cause spending oodles of time with your family NEVER EVER contributes to resentment. (Reply to this)

Personal story time.

lizzypaul
2006-03-22 04:03 am UTC (link)

My mother was addicted to computer games. And not games like Everquest or WoW...that I could understand. No, my mother was addicted to PONG. In the late nineties, mind. She also loved this game where you made the two dimensional mice push blocks around to get cheese. STUPIDEST GAME EVER OMG.

My mother would play these mindless, asinine games until 4:30 in the morning. And then she would be a complete bitch the next day, and wonder why she was so tired all the time.

Thank God she kicked the habbit...though now she's hit menopause and is still tired all the time.

/whine

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	isntitironic 2006-03-22 04:09 am UTC (link)
	My first reaction was "chill, people, it's obviously a joke." Then I realized that I was having faith in humanity again. Need to stop that. (Reply to this)

	la_viv 2006-03-22 04:43 am UTC (link)
	I ate butter like it was a whole new food group. Mmm. Chick's post wasn't the end of the world. I've seen, via my acquaintences, what happens when parents abandon children for video games. It makes me sick. The fact that this woman had the foresight to even ask for ideas says good things about her. Eh. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	sharonapple 2006-03-22 04:54 am UTC (link)
	Okay. This should have been an easy problem to solve, Kids/Family > WoW. I'm not seeing a lot of good things with parents and WoW. First that crazy Korean couple who let their baby girl die, now this? twitches uncontrollably (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	v_digitalwytch 2006-03-22 05:09 am UTC (link)
	I used to game like a mad thing before kids, and after I had them, I started cutting back and once they were out of the heavy sleep stage, my gaming waited until they were in bed. Once school started, then that was what my afternoons went to. (Reply to this)

	hilarity 2006-03-22 05:12 am UTC (link)
	Having had to deal with parents who care not about other people, the fact that this mother is not prepared to depart from a video game is incredibly alarming and my tolerance is at NEGATIVE FIVE BILLION. Do it when your kids are older, please. (Reply to this)

	hellespont 2006-03-22 05:13 am UTC (link)
	I loved the utterly tangential catfight about savoury pies and whether or not Americans eat them. Full disclosure: I just had chicken pot pies for dinner, but I am Canadian. My grandfather was American, though. Kentucky-born. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	thebitingfaery jumps in to flip out over some small remark about meat pies, being exceptionally hostile for no apparent reason. Maybe she has to get her trolling out in small doses now because she kept getting wanked. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	michmatch 2006-03-22 05:39 am UTC (link)
	Ignoring your kids to raid is so much worse than ignoring your kids for snark comms. Somehow. Funny, I don't remember a one-size-fits-all Suppertime or Bedtime listed in the owner's manual all kids come with. Was it before or after the chapter explaining I'm not allowed to have hobbies? /wanky overreaction to the wanky overreactions (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	wolfsamurai 2006-03-22 06:16 am UTC (link)
	I'm glad the parents in my WoW guild have something called common sense. >_< Which doesn't seem very evident there. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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jedi_miki
2006-03-22 06:42 am UTC (link)

I like the part when Mmstarshine, a "friend" of OwlSamantha, shows up here (http://community.livejournal.com/wow_ladies/839971.html?thread=9251363#t9251363) playing the "OH NOES I sent my friend here! OH NOES the intarweb is full of meanie poo poo heads! I'M LEAVING AND NEVER SENDING ANYWHERE HERE AGAIN!!!"

Of course she gets pity from the other "The internets is full of meanies!" believers.

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	squib 2006-03-22 08:01 am UTC (link)
	So rawness automagically knows that the OP is "morbidly obese trash", yet she's "not a food nazi". Uh, yeah, right. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	rekall 2006-03-22 08:51 am UTC (link)
	At least she'll be able to teach her kids when they want to learn how to play it. :P (Reply to this)

	rustybitch 2006-03-22 11:59 am UTC (link)
	Lauren_riot sounds quite sensible to me. (Reply to this)

rosina_alcona
2006-03-22 02:07 pm UTC (link)

Jesus. Is this the kind of pressure you are under when you have children? Seriously? you feed them at a different time because there's something you want to do (your hobby) and it is classed as neglect?

*blinks*

So all those times I walked in front of the telly whining for chocolate while my dad was watching the Scottish Premier League results come in (and got growled at for it) were NOT because I was an annoying child, it was because I was NEGLECTED OMG.

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hurricane
2006-03-22 02:43 pm UTC (link)

My mother introduced the household to the art of the FPS. She was addicted to the original Castle Wolfenstein and Doom--and before that, a few puzzle games by Apogee. I don't remember her neglecting us over her games, but I do remember that while the news was just picking up on these games and going "OMG, THEY'RE MAKING OUR KIDS VIOLENT!" and therefore making parents paranoid, she was teaching us how to play them and figuring that shooting pixellated demons and Nazis was better than shooting living things.

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	spiderflower 2006-03-22 03:17 pm UTC (link)
	Hold on, kids aren't those small people who exist to run you to Auberdine when you need to go to the bathroom? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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dalassa
2006-03-22 05:07 pm UTC (link)

Generally the parents in my guild take turns running each other's characters around while the other maintains the kids or if they aren't together or something needs both its "afk, children need *important thing here*." We as a guild cope because basically we don't suck. And yes our raid assembly times generally coincide with the feeding time for the West Coast. It just takes common sense, on both sides. I'm not getting why this got so massive other than that parenting makes everyone a loudmouthed know it all.

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	marumae 2006-03-22 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	Why not just make their dinner at four and set them up in front of the TV or with their own little game then instead of wringing your hands as to whether or not your WoW raiding party will have your precious presence? Geez Lady... (Reply to this)

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