You Know Your Kid Has Been Playing Too Many Video Games When

Filed in archive Other on March 27, 2007

You know your kid's been spending too much time playing video games when they start emulating the game in real life. Cz has been played MX vs ATV on the PS2 a lot. He's pretty good at it too, learning to do tricks and all. He can keep up with the racers at 80%.

Anyway, I sometimes ride my bicycle while Cz rides his quad because we like to ride together, and I don't like riding the big quad in the back yard because it tears up the track too much. Lately I've not been able to keep up with him on the bicycle, like in the good old days when he was riding much slower on that damned quad. So I ride for a bit, then sit track-side and watch him ride.

As you can see, lately he's taken to not only going faster, but doing more tricks. Earlier this week we were outside riding. After huffing and puffing around for a few laps, I sat watching him ride, and all of a sudden, I see him come off the seat a bit going over the front-straight jump, and his feet came off the floorboard and went forward.

At first I thought it was that he just bounced himself up. But no, he's learned another trick. I'm not teaching him this kind of stuff. In fact, it's been hard, but I'm finally getting him to pay attention to the ride instead of the spectators.