Day 96/183: Signs that your children may be missing school

[nanila]

Normally we don’t allow the children to play on their devices during the “school day”, but last Friday we made a special exception, partly due to the upheaval caused by moving mid-week and partly because their parents were tired.

How did they spend their special device time, I hear you ask? Did they reach new levels in Pokemon Shield or Just Dance? Achieve a new high score on Space Shooters or Doug Dug? No. They built a school for creepers in Minecraft on the Nintendo Switch, complete with playground equipment, multiple classrooms, and Forest School [pictured below, with campfires].

Comments

[azurelunatic]

That's absolutely school-related! Go, them!

[sfred]

<3

[corvidology]

To quote (inappropriately) an old jazz song: How can I miss you when you won't go away?

[ayebydan]

This is a wonderful anecdote that gave me a true smile today.

[castiron]

That is awesome.

Youngest is extremely into Minecraft and is trying to convince me to either set up a multiplayer server or download mods. I do not currently have the energy to learn how to safely do either, and I'm secretly hoping that if I wait enough years Youngest will get to where he can do all the work under parental supervision (in that narrow window between "willing to accept parental supervision" and "attempts to take shameless advantage of parental lack of tech knowledge, forgetting that Mom may not have the knowledge on hand but she's also been online since Usenet, has known her children all their lives, and will be way more motivated to self-teach new tech if she thinks child is up to something, so this will backfire").

[cmcmck]

That should tell us something! :o)

[lurkingcat]

That is amazing! And it made me smile on a day I really needed something to smile at :)

[silveradept]

I am charmed by this school construction and the thought that creepers are interested in education.