As a parent we try and teach our children that winning isn’t everything. That it is how you play the game that matter. This is something that I try and instil in my own children. To me there is no such word as can’t, you may not get it straight way, you may have to practice over and over again, but one day it will happen. So that being said, why am I unable to have the same views to things I do myself?
Every now and again I purchase for the children a game of the internet as a reward for something that they have done. Most of the times I try to make them have some education value to them , however there are some that are just for pure fun, Like the Diner Dash series, or some of the match three type games, and lately they have enjoyed the find and seek type games.
So this is where I come out of the closet. I also play theses games at times. I do this for a number of reasons, because I know somewhere down the track I am going to hear “Mum can you help me I can’t get this”, so I don’t want to look like a fool and not know what I am doing. I also think they keep my mind alert (well that is my story and I am sticking to it). But my one weakness with these games is I have to have the expert score or the highest score possible. I wont stop until I have achieved this. In some cases I could even say that I am addicted to getting that score and with every spare moment I can get I get on to beat my own score.
This really doesn’t help, because when the kids get on all I hear is “Ohhh mum, you beat me again.” Quietly on the inside I am gloating, but on the outside I feel bad for upsetting them. However I do try and point out that they should strive to beat me. Yet I know that deep down if they ever did that I would be back on there again trying to beat them again.
Ohhh how terrible of me (mischievous laugh in the back ground).
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