Hi Nolan,
Nolan, how are you doing? Are you having a fun time? Anything new that you enjoy so much that you spend a lot of time doing? You must be getting more homework at school these days since you are getting older in grade school. Are you spending more time after school than Ciara doing homework and projects to complete? Perhaps, a lot of more tests and assignments each week?
I recalled that you were in Kindergarten and it was the first time I came into your classroom. Your Mom and I enjoyed seeing all the nice activities in your classroom. Many things were there that any child could play or enjoy the most with. Right away, before anything else, you hurried and went right to the school’s computer. You were so focus and in amazement by showing us how to use it.
At home, I first recognized when you were using the computer, you would download any video game and play it right away. Within minutes without even learning any of the instructions on how to play or what the game was like, you knew how to play the video game. Nobody taught you or even had watched it before. You knew what to do by figuring out the video game. I think the first video game that I saw you play was a game with flower pots and plants with monsters coming out of the ground. Even myself, looking at the screen I didn’t even know, how you knew what to do. You enjoyed the game very much and went to the next level. I even tried to help you or even play it myself with you but I had no idea how to play.
Do you spend a lot of time playing many video games today? Are you still playing them as much? Are there any games which are your favourite? How often do you buy a new game or do you borrow any of them from a friend? When I was your age, I had about maybe about 50 video games. They were called video game cartridges. The games were never like a CD disc, but much larger in size.
Sometimes I would spend too much time playing video games. In order for me to do other things, I was only allowed a certain time to play the video games in the day. The joysticks and the power adapter was purposely taken away so I couldn’t play the video games. I then went searching through out the whole house to find the joysticks. I went searching like if it was a treasure hunt to find exactly where the joysticks were at. I searched every room in the house and eventually found the joysticks.
Nolan, the next time I will write you will be on March 1st. I hope that you don’t spend too much time playing video games but do other activities that you enjoy.
Love Dad, XOXO