My child wants to teach me how to play minecraft 😭

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I really can't think of ANYTHING worse. Is it bad to just tell him I just don't want to? I'm just not interested. It's bad enough listening to them talk about it.

lol don't do it op

Get in there. I’ve learnt to play Minecraft Roblox and Fortnite over the years. He wants to involve you! In a few short years he won’t bother with you and you’ll look back with regret.

Luckily DS has his sister and friends to play Minecraft with. Unfortunately he's moved onto Fronight. It wasn't my thing.

I'll happily play, Mario cart, supper Mario and Sonic with him but I'm not a Minecraft fan which is odd given I like sim games quite a lot.

Oh definitely take this opportunity to connect with him! My children often want to teach me and show me things that I have no interest in, but I love it as I love to see how they teach/show me, I love watching their excitement and I feel privileged that they want to connect

Pokémon Go was much better. A 1 hour lecture about types of Pokémon evolutions from DS as we walked along a beach on holiday was ok too - he liked that I asked questions and clarified. But making me play the damned thing - that was true maternal love.

Even the Power Rangers weren’t as boring as Pokémon. Minecraft was practically a treat after it all.

How do you know it's mind numbingly boring if you don't know how to play and have never played it? Also, suck it up even if it is. Sometimes it's nice to show and interest in your kids even if it's not your cup of tea. It will help them feel valued and secure.

Does it have to be Minecraft? Why not say "That doesn't sound like a game I'd enjoy, why don't we find a game that we'll both have fun playing together?" And then do that, either a game they already have, or a new one (that'll make them happy!).

I'm still playing Pokémon-Go. 😳
Roblox was the worse - especially the one where you had to buy and trade pets. It was boring and the only one I wanted was a dark matter cat, which would have meant weeks and weeks of play.

Do it! It’s a great way to bond with them. My daughter made me join Roblox and I love it now. At first it was so frustrating. We can play games together and I can also monitor what they are up to. Im embracing it as in a few years I will be a pariah 🤣 Good luck 👍 love the Mitch benn video.

To clarify, I HAVE tried before, I'm shit at it and he often just tries to take the controls to do it better. I absolutely do find it boring. I can appear enthusiastic when they show me stuff.

I'm happy to play Mario carts /whatever else, I just really struggle with minecraft.

My 5 year old built a scale model of the Titanic, complete with bedrooms, staterooms, gymnasium and engine rooms. It was brilliant fun. He's now moved on to a 100x100 block version of the Great Pyramid, and is busy planning what lava-filled traps will be installed.

Minecraft is epic, and you'd do well to give it another go 😀

Playing computer games makes me feel sick and dizzy nowadays so that was my excuse.

"Darling, I love you very much but I don't like playing Minecraft. Why don't we do X together instead and you can tell me all about your Minecraft?"

Kids can grasp the concept that a peer doesn't want to play a game at a young age. They can grasp it just as well for a parent.

Just politely decline. Its a hideous game.

I know we all like different things, but I would love to hear why you think Minecraft is a hideous game.

As a kid I used to play Snake & Ladders and Ludo on my own, or with a teddy or the cat, taking both turns and moving both counters.

I did it because I was an only child and my Mum couldn't be bothered playing games with me.

Please play Minecraft OP.

Well its not easy on the eye for a start, all boxy and glitchy and the content is a load of old cobblers, up the nether portal, obsidian, pigs and various other randomness. It can also absorb certain types of kids for hours and hours as its so free flowing and never ending. Does it rot the brain, quite probably although of course proponents will say how intellectual it is yawn yawn. You can also kill each other on it can't you, depending on what mode you're on, I can't remember now.

OP could just play a better game like the mario kart she suggests or a platform game like Donkey Kong.

Well. I've given it a good go today. I still can't stand it. It just doesn't interest me at all. I was bored, trying very hard not to be irritable. It made my neck hurt. The controls were odd for me, the looking up/diwn the wrong way round

I totally get what people mean about joining in with their interests, and connecting with them etc. I'm going to buy a super Mario game for them so I can play that.

We do play other stuff together. Both video and non.

I'm with you. I really hate video games. DH does video games with them and I do board games. I did go through several months of DS3 trying to teach me how to play pokemon cards - I'm still clueless but I hope I looked enthusiastic!

I didn’t mind Minecraft, it taught my dc a lot, about problem solving, and thinking through things etc, and also it meant I could spend time with them doing what THEY wanted to do. We’ve moved onto Mariokart now, as they are older, they still beat me…..!!

I have to suffer playing Minecraft. Im partially sighted and the whole thing just looks like one flat colour to me so its hell.

But dd loves it when I take an interest, so I pretend just to spend the time with her. She is 11, and I know from my adult son, that the day is coming soon where she will retreat to her bedroom for 5/6 years, and I will become the bain of her existence just for breathing, so I will enjoy this last phase.

How old is your child op?

Personally I think it's really lovely that they are inviting you into their world. You don't need to like it, but I think showing willingness to try would go a long way. You might enjoy it more than you think. And if you don't like Minecraft, just focus on what it means to your child.