For anyone who wants to avoid this post about kids, now is the time to vacate.
I just HAD to post this because I was and am so amazed at an event I recently witnessed.
We got my sons a PS2 for Christmas and a ton of games for it including a "Scooby Doo" one. My youngest son, Sylvan (9) is the player of this system because he is the higher functioning child of the two and understands the controls and game rules. BUT, Dustin, my oldest (11), enjoys WATCHING him play.
The other day Dustin ASKED to play Scooby Doo on the PS2 and I had no idea of what to say. Of COURSE he could if he wanted to, but his skills and capacity for playing would lead to the biggest meltdown tantrum you EVER saw (cuz he would KNOW he wanted to play it but not be ABLE to play it).
So, to avert the likelyhood of a Nuclear Reactor Meltdown, I asked Sylvan to play the game WITH his brother. He chirrupped "Sure Mom!" plopped down and started to play with Dustin.
So there we are, Dustin and Sylvan PLAYING TOGETHER (NEVER happens .. NEVER).
Sylvan would play the game through most of the level, eating the schooby snacks avoiding the logs in the stream Scooby was navigating and then JUST before the end of the level after all the challenges were circumnavigated, Sylvan would hand the Game Pad to Dustin and instruct him thusly:
Sylvan: "Go through that door Dustin.. over there! Push that button.. No! THAT button.. graet Job, Dustin... go on.. go through, you can do it! yayyyyy DUSTIN! You DID it! Grat Job, Dustin, you did a great job!"
and the game level was completed and the bongs and whistles would go off and lights flash (like games do when you win that level) and Dustin would be Ecstatic like HE played that level and Won it!
Then Sylvan would take the Game pad back, and repeat the process through the next level and then hand it back to Dustin just at the end so Dustin could finish it and "win".
This went on for like half an hour and I was almost bawling from... well... how amazing it was.
This was the best memory EVER I have had of the boys together. It was AWESONE!
And that is my story.
