I was only allowed on the computer occasionally until I was 10 (a few hours per week) and I only got access to the internet when I was 12.
I consider that good parenting.
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Depends, if the kiddo did it in survival mode you should probably congratulate him. If it was in creative then you have yourself a griefer. Griefers should be shot into the sun. I am sorry for your loss.
Not that hard in survival tbh. Just need to get two cows inside and keep feeding them wheat. Babies grow up in a few minutes, and growth becomes exponential.
Friend did this to me but with chickens, which is worse because they lay eggs.
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No different than if one child messes up the Lego build that another built. This is nothing new, only digital. Typical sibling annoyance.
Struggling to parent this issue is just showing signs of being a shitty parent.
You tell them to knock it off and teach one child to have empathy and care for others by thinking of how they'd feel if someone messed up something they built.
Sometimes you could also just chalk it up to kids being kids, so long as it isn't constant.
But to be honest, at these ages, the 5 year old probably doesn't fully understand. Just need to put some limits and maybe have them stay in their own sandbox in the game for now.
Start by not having your 5 year old play video games, and certainly not online.
As a parent with a 5 year old, Minecraft has been very educational for her. She's learned some brilliant spelling and keyboard skills, building hand-eye coordination, etc. plus Minecraft can be limited to just single player or private servers (I have a private server setup just for my family for example) so they won't be interacting with inappropriate content or unvetted individuals
I'm much less happy about Fortnite for example, since that has random voice chat, is always online and forced Windows-only via anti-cheat
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Sword with looting and fire aspect. Enjoy your leather and cooked steak.
Send the kids to the mines, they'll love it
It could be worse, #1: when my nephew was 4, I built him a house in Minecraft creative mode. And then I hid a lot of TNT below the house; they'd be triggered by the pressure plate near the door. (inb4 it's common to put a pressure plate near doors in Minecraft, so they open automatically.) He entered the house, and "tttssssssBBOOOOOMMM!". He started crying. My sister (his mum) was nearby, and begun laughing, then the kid got to cry harder. I wanted to surprise the kid, not to scare him! (Thankfully I kept a copy of the world before rigging the house with TNT. As I loaded the copy he calmed down.)
It could be worse, #2: when I was 16, one of my cousins was 8. I was into a game we mocked as "Paint Online" (Tibia, a MMO). He was learning the ropes of the game, barely out of the beginners' island. Some random afternoon, he phones me, crying: "[my nickname]!!!! HELP MEEEEE!!!! I lost my worms, I lost my fishing rod, I lost EVERYTHING!!!". He died in the game, lost his items, and he was literally crying! I had to stop everything I was doing, log into the game, get a fishing rod + a full stack of worms from my depot, some random food, and give to the kid. Otherwise he would not leave me bloody alone.
Tibia mentioned. I could never get over the lack of attack animations Iol.
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You should be able to manage that...
I think the not knowing how to parent part was a joke. Parenting is always figuring out how to navigate whatever new problem your kids are having, and if your kids are playing Minecraft together they definitely have an parenting experience mediating in-game disputes
Yeah, children having a fight over something not immediately relatable to an adult bystander, how arcane! And it's about computer things, so that should absolve me of any responsibility as a parent.
Digital assets have such an emotional hold on people.
Honestly, just use their accounts to start playing in a sincere effort to fix the problem manually. They'll quickly learn that nothing they can do to each other is worse than your mediation. I call that "The Solomon Approach."
So... we need to cut all the cows in half?
That's a good question. Is there butchering in Minecraft?
More or less. When you kill cows you get meat and sometimes milk.
You dont get milk if you kill them... only if you smack them with an empty bucket, and you only need one for infinite amount of milk.
Hmm, did they patch that out? I haven't played much but I distinctly remember being surprised by this.
Its been like that forever. I've never known any other way to obtain milk buckets. Nor does the Change logs make any references to alternative ways. Perhaps you played on a server with plugins that added milk bucket as a drop.
And if you kill them with fire the steak is already cooked.
Huh. I wonder if that works in real life. BRB.
I think the hard part is getting it cooked through without charring the outside.
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Upvote because parents playing on a minecraft home server with their kids is a huge win for everyone involved.
I was waiting for someone to turn this wholesome. Begrudging upvote...mumble
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/kill @e[type=!player,distance=..8]
/kill @e[type=cow,distance=..8]
Everything but the player is evil
~~? no that's just the cows~~
"evil" referred to the previous comment
That's the point. The first option killed everything but the player. This kills only the cows.
the dangers of replying before i fully wake up, the previous comment didn't register
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Don't have a cow, son