They keep taking the fun out of games...
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17798)
United States
November 13, 2007 10:30pm CST
I saw the commercial today about Disney's DVD of Pictionary for kids. Now, the game Pictionary is where you draw "clues" of a word and people guess the word or phrase. Half the fun is in drawing the clue the person doing the drawing is half the fun! And it is an acitivity!!
Well, now. this DVD of the game- it draws the clues for you! The kids just sit and the DVD does all the activity and fun and imagination and thought - and well, the kid just sits there and does nothing. Everything is done for the kids these days. They don't have to think or imagin or create on their own. They don't have to use their brains, their thought process or think for themselves at all. No wonder kids get bored so quickly and do things they shouldn't. They don't know how to use their brains or imagination.
3 responses
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
14 Nov 07
Yes, it does give the option, but it is just also giving hte kids the option of not learning or having fun ....just sit and wait. Don't think, do try, don't imagen, just sit and wait and it'll do the work. I just think that is encourageing lazy kids and whent he kids that just sit and watch are running this country......woooooo nelly bell!
@wiccania (3360)
• United States
14 Nov 07
it could also be a fun game for someone like my son. He's Autistic and doesn't understand "draw a picture of Tinker Bell" but if one was being drawn on the tv, he could identify the character. Chances of him recognizing anything I draw that's supposed to be Tinker Bell are just about nill. It's not just about laziness.
Besides, if a parent wants to get the game for their kids but wants their kids to draw, the solution is simple. Hide the DVD part and just play it like regular pictionary. Save the DVD for "every now and then."
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@caroliewrites (205)
• United States
15 Nov 07
I saw the same commercial coffeebreak, and I was as disturbed by it as you are. On top of taking all the fun and creativiy out of a great game, what happens when all the pictures on the DVD, which I'm sure is expensive, are all used up? The children of the parents that got "taken" on this game are back to drawing their own clues? OH NO NOT THAT!!! Maybe we could file robbery charges against Disney....the stealing of a child's imagination. Good Post. Thanks.
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
15 Nov 07
You mean the pictures can be used up? Didn't know that. Makes it even worse! But yeah, robbery of a child's imagination - crying shame. My 7 yo GD never watches TV at my house. I never encuoraged it and SHE doesn't want to. She says she has to many thing to do at Nanny's house like crafts, and baking and riding bikes and protecting the bugs on the sidewalks from getting stepped on and creating contraptions out of misc hardware things and making things that do things... the list goes on. Her imagination is totaly in tack and I am thankful for that!
@njrealestategirl (369)
• United States
14 Nov 07
Well said...albeit I thought the game was really cute and thought about buying it for the kids...but it doesn't get their brain going or make them be creative in their drawings, etc. Pictionary overall is a really fun game. I'm sure that tried to make this one at a kid level but it could've still been accomplished by choosing easier categories/things to draw.
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
14 Nov 07
I thought it was cute too, but it just doesn't give the kids anything to do. It does everything for them. Does nothing to encourage them to think much, just sit and wait. Kind of like watching TV instead of reading hte book - its all done for you. I found some of the old radio shows on cassett - my son LOVED those as he could imagen in his own mind the setting, the scenery - what was actually happening. He had more fun listening than watching. If they just hadnt done the option for the game to do the drawing - then it would have been good as the kids would still have the novelty of the hand held game feature
