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...feel lucky to be part of the first generation of gamers. I also get to be a first-generation-gamer parent; my parents regarded games with a primitive, chimplike suspicion, but my daughter Lily will have a parent who understands them and plays alongside her. A cool parent...
...when Lily played her first game a few weeks ago, at the age of 3, I found myself wondering something I never thought I would wonder: How cool a parent should I be? Lily has always been interested in the Web. A couple of weeks ago, we found a Flash game on a Teletubbies site involving five brown bunnies that need to be placed in their correct bunny-shaped holes. To my amazement, Lily shooed my hands away from the track pad and started slowly nudging bunnies toward burrows. When the fifth bunny hit home--and an unseen Tinky Winky...
...also troubling commercial aspects to a lot of games for preschoolers: they're basically ads for branded characters like Dora the Explorer and Ariel the mermaid. And Thomas points out--in the nicest way possible--how pathetic it is that I want people to think I'm a cool...
...that Lily likes games, but I've resolved to limit her playing time, and I'm not going to let her play alone, personal hygiene be damned. She and I won't always be able to play games together, after all; far too soon she'll be far too cool to hang out with me. But for now, maybe it's a good idea for Daddy to stick around. Child's Play The best websites for tiny gamers [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...with a proposal to pay the comedians twenty-five dollars per set in the Original Room. She rejected it flat out. "She was so hurt over David Letterman that she continued to dig her heels in," he says. "She just absolutely refused. It cost her her greatest strength: her cool rationality." As the strike dragged on, Mitzi tried to lure the comics back with a promise to pay them twenty-five dollars per set on weekends only. Garry Shandling, one of the club's top acts at the time, thought it was a reasonable offer and went back to work...