{"id":1208,"date":"2008-08-25T08:12:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2008-08-25T08:12:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T14:12:47","slug":"parental-pax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/parental-pax\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental PAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pax.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1163\" title=\"pax\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/pax-150x40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a>Three years ago I visited the Penny-Arcade Expo and provided the sole parental voice there. I moderated a panel on Women in Games, I was on a panel about Gaming after the age 30 and so on.\u00a0 I saw a lot of parents, but nobody was very interested in them. Last year I came and hosted my GamerDad: Gaming with Children speech and it was a rousing success. This year, I&#8217;m\u00a0very happy to see such a strong showing for GamerParenting and gaming with children.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday at 2:30 you&#8217;ll find a panel called &#8220;THE GAME DEVELOPER PARENTS: Raising Our Kids On Games&#8221; that features a bunch of actual gamerparent developers. Surely an encouraging development indeed!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday at 4pm there&#8217;s a screening of Nerdcore Rising, a documentary on geeks, nerds, gamers, and the rise(?) of videogame themed hip-hop.\u00a0 I was used in a teaser for this, so there&#8217;s a good chance I&#8217;m in this movie. I think I might have to see this one.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday at 3pm\u00a0WhatTheyPlay&#8217;s John Davison is joining Newsweek&#8217;s N&#8217;Gai Croal and Cheryl Olsen PhD (co-author of Grand Theft Childhood) to discuss sex and violence in video games and where it&#8217;s all headed.<\/p>\n<p>But,\u00a0at 2:30pm on Sunday, I&#8217;ll be doing my new 5-year Anniversary\/Games are Good\/Gaming with Children\/I&#8217;m Still Alive speech.\u00a0 (Psst&#8230; my speech will be a lot more fun than the Newsweek one.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going &#8211; see you there!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not going &#8211; wish you were there!<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck, this speech, if I&#8217;ve calculated things right, should change everything. Starting next week, we hit the ground running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago I visited the Penny-Arcade Expo and provided the sole parental voice there. I moderated a panel on Women in Games, I was on a panel about Gaming after the age 30 and so on.\u00a0 I saw a lot of parents, but nobody was very interested in them. Last year I came and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}