Limited Gaming

Mat said:
Wow! Some of you almost sound as though you would prefer to be gaming rather than having to suffer the inconvenience of bringing up your own children!
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dont think its that, bringing up babies and children is hardwork, sometimes even the missus (mums) can make it hard as they get tired as well, you need a timeout from it...

Like I said, include the kids into the PC gaming, its quite rewarding. Plenty of two player kid safe games like Fifa 13 for example...

Or even Trine, Rayman or racing games... But you do sometimes need a break from it all, babies and kids can grind you down, its not easy bringing them up...
 
Sleepless said:
5 weeks old is WAY too young for controlled crying. You should look to do it about 5-6 months if its an issue.
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Oh good lord I wasn't suggesting he try it at 5 weeks! What I liked about it was that the kids fell asleep in their own beds, rather than being rocked to sleep by an adult, so when they woke up in the night, they just turned over and went back to sleep, instead of having a fit because daddy was gone :)

I'd never had any issues with them going to bed since, I reckon it's saved me years of hassle.
 
Sleepery said:
Oh good lord I wasn't suggesting he try it at 5 weeks! What I liked about it was that the kids fell asleep in their own beds, rather than being rocked to sleep by an adult, so when they woke up in the night, they just turned over and went back to sleep, instead of having a fit because daddy was gone :)

I'd never had any issues with them going to bed since, I reckon it's saved me years of hassle.
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we have only ever rocked our little girl a couple of times, its not recommended to rock or cuddle babies to sleep, when our little un wakes up in the night we leave her to see if she drops off again... they can't know mummy or daddy will run to them EVERY single time...

Now, our little un has woke up literally screaming, now that is when you run in and check...

But she'll need to be past three months onwards to get the routine of going to bed without as much from mummy and daddy and it takes months to get to the stage where you can try leaving them in the cot, even now we struggle with it...
 
Mat said:
Wow! Some of you almost sound as though you would prefer to be gaming rather than having to suffer the inconvenience of bringing up your own children!
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ITs not that at all, We are showing eachother how we all cope with keeping up our hobbies and spending time and bringing up out children. I wouldnt change it at all but, there are times where you just want to sit and relax and have your own time doing what you want.

I work Mon-Fri and I dont get in till 6pm or later by the time she is fed and we have had tea its 9pm which then I would try and get some gaming in but its hard work and a lot of the time I just go to sleep because I know I need to do it all again the following day.

It Is do-able and Its down to the indvidual person and how much sleep they can go without. But now I am getting back into a routine with work I am finding myslef being able to stay away a little longer to get on my laptop or desktop depending how i feed.
 
I actually wrote a small article on this very topic not too long ago :D

http://gaming.thedigitalfix.com/content/id/1221/playing-one-handed.html

I've found that my Vita is my saving grace. I've got an hour sat on a train to work and then another one back, so that's two hours of gaming a day right there. Our second child is 10 weeks old at the moment and I'm lucky if I get 15mins a night when I either don't have a kid in arms or something that needs doing.

I think every situation works out differently - as I talk about in the link my first wouldn't sleep if she was put down so I had a lot of time where she was sleeping on me, giving me a spare hand to do something so I didn't go stir crazy with poor late night tele. The new one is a bit different in that she is awake until fairly late and then nearly sleeps all the way through, which is much better for sleep but worse for any gaming at home :D

Stick with it though - its obvious that the kids are more important than any games you may be missing, but it's really only a short amount of time in the grand scheme of things before you can get back to the hobby, and by then you may well miss the little packages that the babies were at first :D

If you really need something to shoehorn in now to keep you sane then anything single player with save anywhere functionality works well. The drop in/out of classics such as Left4Dead and Team Fortress 2 could keep you in shooting things while more Indie titles such as Torchlight 2 or Trine 1/2 should keep you busy. I'd avoid anything 'epic' or with a hugh storyline as, inevitably, you will just stress yourself out when you need to go and clean poo at a critical and unpausable bit ;p
 
anything you can dip in and out of. Minecraft, Civ games, Torchlight 1 and 2, Orcs Must Die 1 and 2, Diablo 3, Dead Island er and some others I can't think of! mmos are pretty much out, as is anything that requires a load of concentration as you could be interrupted at any moment.

enjoy! (both gaming and children!)
 
Minecraft is decent if you like that kind of thing, I play it all the freaking time.

Could try Fallout/Skyrim/Prototype 1&2/Left for dead 1&2...
Or you could try something like Rome: Total War, or Civ 5.
 
I was thinking about trying out the Total War Games for somthing a little different. I do like my games to loop pretty so not sure which one would be best.

I love the look of the new Rome Total War 2
 
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