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@Wizz said:

I have serious spider-movie fatigue. But holy crow, I'd watch Andrew Garfield toss quips at Hugh Jackman and Jackman call him an asshole for like 92 hours.

I'd take a ticket to that. And buy popcorn.

I have presented to other librarians a few times (I did a webinar on the topic and a few panel discussions, my next one is going to be participating in a panel of Indiana librarians about gaming in libraries at GenCon.) about the benefits in development of children (and even teenagers) where it comes to learning to play roleplaying games. Those are all things that are included in the discussions that happen over the course of the topic. But I've also found the strongest support for it comes from something summarized very well by Ethan Gilsdorf's article from a couple of years ago: 'All I needed to know about life I learned from “Dungeons & Dragons”.' It makes for a list of compelling points to support teaching kids the hobby.

@Gingerlily I have had a good bit of experience with that as well and honestly I think it depends upon the kid, it depends upon the game and it depends upon the parent(s). I have two sons, the oldest of them has always been a bit of a computer nut. When he was about 6-7 years old he was already into MMOs, specifically he got into one called Toon Town (No idea if that game is still around these days or not, we let him play it off and on with close supervision for about a year before there started to be some things that caused us to take it away.). If you can find an MMO that has a closely monitored age limit and is meant to be a kids game, that's great, but it's not a guarantee that there aren't adults creeping on the game. That son is now 16 years old and running guilds on numerous MMOs, while his younger brother (who's 10 currently) is allowed online social games - but only when he's playing with a member of our family or is being closely monitored (plays it sitting in the same room as one of his parents or his brother) because he's far more trusting of people than we're comfortable with him being online.

Meanwhile I also know people who absolutely refuse their kids anything to do with the internet, games or not. And we got quite a bit of flack from family for how much gaming we allowed our oldest with it often being presumed that letting him do some things must mean we weren't watching or aware of what he was doing.

I'm going tomorrow/Friday afternoon with the family. With my 8 yr old who is going to go dressed as Iron Man, he's been planning this for over a week now.

And then Saturday the library where I work is making a full party out of Free Comic Book Day. We've got 200 comic books to give away, we will have an equal # of cupcakes and show "comic book movies" in the library all day, and we're having a costume contest that anyone who comes in dressed as their favorite comic book character can be entered into the contest to win some limited edition comic cover art and a Kindle.

(I've busted my ass to get all this planned/organized/ready to go - so I'm admittedly bragging just a little.)

I've been waiting for this weekend for both days for months now, so it is a given that the whole thing is going to be awesome. Because I said so.