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Eleanor, what is that book on drawing Nintendo characters? We might have to get that!

DS8 is very much into Mario like that right now, too, mapping out worlds and drawing them and tracking times and stuff. It's one of the few things that he can use to relate to friends, so it's good. He was Luigi for Halloween last year -- which was a lot better peer-wise than previous choices of architect, etc.

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Big lurker here. Hope I can chime in. Our DD8 is a huge video game addict. Like some of your kids, she would play round the clock if we let her (she's currently into DS pokemon, but also has had long obsessions w Mario, Dragonquest, zelda, Spore). Online it's fantage, wizard 101 etc. We have decided not to limit. She doesn't watch tv (her choice), she reads incessantly, plays sports, plays piano and writes her own pieces, gets all As at the gifted school, and has many friends and many interests. I'm not really convinced that EG/PG kids like these are that affected by video games. Mine has claimed since age 3 that she's going to design video games. I believe her. So she goes to ID tech camp in summers and takes video game design/programming. At least it's something productive . If she weren't doing all those other things, I'd be more concerned-

Great topic! -Jennifer

The drawing book is called "How to Draw Nintendo Heroes and Villains". Here is the link from Amazon. You will notice that Amazon only lists it through independent sellers.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Draw-Nint..._1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308590076&sr=8-1

disclaimer: we have not received the book yet so I can't speak to the content. We are waiting for it's arrival. We also got a used book. The price for a new one was ridiculous.