February 21, 2005 - Monday
I've been thinking that the new Bionicles might have been a mistake. All the boys do with them is crash and fight and that disturbs me. I suppose it's want little boys do and I just ought to let it go, but somehow there's both a respect for the toys issue and not wanting to promote idle violence that has me uneasy. I've been telling them that it's not a very nice way for them to play, but it occurred to me today that they probably have no other idea what to do with them, there favorite toys (especially Harry, Jeremy is probably just following Harry's lead with much of this). If I'm going to get them to play differently I'm probably going to need to show them how, not just tell them that what they are doing isn't so nice. So, we created a little Bionicle adventure today, with the good guys going to recover important discs, then the bad guys trying to steal them. Not very sophisticated, but it turned out a lot better than the random crashing.


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