A unanimous sentiment of our the co-authors is “The biggest, most important piece of advise I can give anyone interested in making games for a living is to start making games now.” A college degree is important, but that degree has to accompanied by a portfolio to the interview question: What games have you worked …
Category: Parenting
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May 03
My Child Wants to Design Video Games Part Two: What type of training or classes should they take?
Added April 2014: I am pleased to announce the Grow a Generation Game Design Master series in Scratch Programming for kids as young as 8 and teens new to programming. Find out more. My fourteen year old took a game design class in his school this year, one semester long, that introduced him to Multi …
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Apr 14
Do Kids Who Play Video Games Really Have an Evolutionary Advantage?
Parents have always known what positive psychology (the study of what makes us happy) now reinforces: short term “extrinsic” rewards might make us joyful in the moment but they don’t lead to happiness. Happiness wells up from a sense of being fully alive, focused, and engaged in every moment; from a feeling of power, heroic …
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Apr 05
A Worthy Quest: Chip Conley’s “Peak” and A Teenager’s Pyramid of Needs
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moment, under the most perfect conditions, under conditions of greatest courage. We enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, …
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Feb 15
Surprising New Resources Rising Up in Gifted Education
A friend, a phenomenal mom who helps provide her family a safe and loving home, who drives her kids from martial arts to sports to scouts to dance to Church, who volunteers alongside them with the handicapped and the poor, recently returned from a parent conference for her daughter. The school apologized they didn’t recognize …
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Jan 13
Preventing Drug and Alcohol Addiction
It is a very bloody, violent rage of a song. A reader sent me the link. Ben Breedlove, whose inspiration life story YouTube recording I mentioned in the last blog, spoke of a dream where he was greeted by Kid Cudi (a rap star) quoting lines from his song Mr. Rager. I watch it – …
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Dec 30
Dreams and Hopes for a New Year in the Eighth Continent
Eighteen year old Ben Breedlove died on Christmas Day, leaving behind a touching video on the heart condition that took his life. This young man, who had struggled since age four with the fear of a young death, used social media to reach out to his friends and make new friends. Ben created the popular …
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