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    Question Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    Does this really get on anyone else's nerves occasionally?

    If you're in game, in a tight spot & it's "Dad" "Dad" "Daaaad!" in your ear & you lose concentration & get wiped out, I try not to feel all but I'm ashamed to say I do occasionally.
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    When I say go, both walk in the opposite direction for 10 paces, draw handbags, then bitch-slap each other!

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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    I get that...As long as you're aware of it, it's not all bad. We're human after all.
    Society's to blame,
    Or possibly Atari.

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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    Count to ten and tell yourself how much joy they bring to your life, if not how about retroactive abortion? What did the little one want anyway?
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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    You mean you get the chance to load the game up?

    Lucky sod.

    I get more a "daaaadda, dadddda" followed by angry german kid style banging on my keyboard, or Hayden decides she like my MX1000 and tries to eat it all the time. You can guarantee that as soon as the PC is switched on and you hear the beep, look down and Hayden has crawled right to your feet waiting to be picked up.

    When I try to get on the Xbox 360 it is even worse. She keeps unplugging my wired controllers, unplugging my foot pedal on the drums on rock band and keeps pressing the power button when it's lit up.

    The little sod laughs as well when shes does all this with the most evil cackle I've ever heard from a 9 month old which makes it hard to moan about it

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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    Well not so little
    It was last night playing thro the final level of MW2 Spec ops on Vet.

    Food's the answer, all the pesky lil blighters ever want lol. I was just taken aback at my reaction tbh.
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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    Food? How unreasonable! At least your not having to get up and do intra-night feeds with a bottle anymore! I guess you have to anticipate there needs a little that way you can "expect" your going to be interrupted so you can enjoy when you don't. Well that what I keep telling myself, but at the moment my daughter seems to like to sit in her carrier on my desk, watching me game. My time is numbered.

    Its natural to be disappointed as its something you wanted to do, but it will still be there later or another day, as long as you can just keep it as a feeling I don't see its a problem, its when it bubbles over into how you behave the issues start.
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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    I wouldn't mind but they're capable of walking into the kitchen and getting something themselves
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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    Radical suggestion here, so feel free to shoot me down, but why not just game when the little 'uns are in bed?

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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    Quote Originally Posted by eshrules View Post
    Radical suggestion here, so feel free to shoot me down, but why not just game when the little 'uns are in bed?
    Dunno about the others but when they're in bed, there are priorities, and the first one is to actually sit down with my other half and have an adult conversation. gaming has to be squeezed in when you can. Sometimes that's when the kids are up and about.
    Nb the kids are old enough to make their own toast etc and they had tea about 6pm.
    Society's to blame,
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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    Quote Originally Posted by Phage View Post
    Dunno about the others but when they're in bed, there are priorities, and the first one is to actually sit down with my other half and have an adult conversation. gaming has to be squeezed in when you can. Sometimes that's when the kids are up and about.
    Nb the kids are old enough to make their own toast etc and they had tea about 6pm.
    I'm sorry - but I'm still confused. You'll give up gaming to sit with the OH, but not to tend to the kids?

    Maybe it's just me, but gaming comes below everything, if I'm at a loose end, I'll hop on the pc or the xbox but it doesn't take preference over anything else.

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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    Quote Originally Posted by eshrules View Post
    Radical suggestion here, so feel free to shoot me down, but why not just game when the little 'uns are in bed?
    Or just teach them to game along with you. Give them a spare controller, so it feels like they are gaming along with you. And when they get a bit older, then can actually game along with you. Imagine that father/mother and son/daugther, killing some zombies!

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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    I used to do that when mini-fishcake was very small. Playing Micro Machines, I gave him the spare controller and he used to love 'driving' the car around

    Now, we play games together anyway!

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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming


    This simple solution was brought to you in association with autism.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    Quote Originally Posted by oolon View Post
    Count to ten and tell yourself how much joy they bring to your life, if not how about retroactive abortion? What did the little one want anyway?
    I would just wait till the kids are in bed before beginning my gaming

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    Re: Kids pestering you whilst you're gaming

    As the first poster said, providing you recognise that you have to contain it, I think you're normal.

    If you hit them, that ain't normal. (though none of us appear to do that. Good stuff).

    Personally, I wait till they're asleep, though. Except for the wii. 4 year old loves watching Lego Batman ("Men jumping around!"). Mrs Shooty* less keen on lego batman as some characters have guns.
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