{"id":12079,"date":"2023-11-01T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/01\/pushing-buttons-finally-ive-found-a-game-i-can-actually-enjoy-playing-with-my-child\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:37:34","slug":"pushing-buttons-finally-ive-found-a-game-i-can-actually-enjoy-playing-with-my-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/01\/pushing-buttons-finally-ive-found-a-game-i-can-actually-enjoy-playing-with-my-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: Finally, I\u2019ve found a game I can actually enjoy playing with my child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Too often games are a source of stress for parents and kids. But working through Mario Wonder\u2019s madcap worlds with my son has shown me they can be shared adventures<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am delighted to report that with the release of Super Mario Wonder, almost seven years into my parenting career, I have finally played a video game all the way through with one of my children. <em>And <\/em>he enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>It was a journey that began with me hopefully playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2018\/nov\/20\/pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-eevee-review-nintendo-switch\">Let\u2019s Go Pikachu!<\/a> in 2018 (which my then-toddler hated so much that he would memorably shout \u201cNo, no, Pikachu!\u201d at the screen), and now it has finally yielded genuine moments of joy as we worked our way through Wonder\u2019s madcap worlds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/nov\/01\/pushing-buttons-super-mario-wonder-playing-video-games-with-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c8fe40b01cce0d28fc4d62ca18f4a3f899cc87a4\/97_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f66c8f5f3f9e6e90a90e37e6559e454d\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: Finally, I\u2019ve found a game I can actually enjoy playing with my child\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Too often games are a source of stress for parents and kids. But working through Mario Wonder\u2019s madcap worlds with my son has shown me they can be shared adventures<br \/>\n\u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nI am delighted to report that with the release of Super Mario Wonder, almost seven years into my parenting career, I have finally played a video game all the way through with one of my children. And he enjoyed it.<br \/>\nIt was a journey that began with me hopefully playing Let\u2019s Go Pikachu! in 2018 (which my then-toddler hated so much that he would memorably shout \u201cNo, no, Pikachu!\u201d at the screen), and now it has finally yielded genuine moments of joy as we worked our way through Wonder\u2019s madcap worlds. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Too often games are a source of stress for parents and kids. But working through Mario Wonder\u2019s madcap worlds with my son has shown me they can be shared adventures \u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I am delighted to report that with the release &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/01\/pushing-buttons-finally-ive-found-a-game-i-can-actually-enjoy-playing-with-my-child\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: Finally, I\u2019ve found a game I can actually enjoy playing with my child<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}