{"id":1723,"date":"2009-01-18T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2009-01-18T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T19:47:08","slug":"skate-2-roller-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/skate-2-roller-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Skate 2 & Roller-Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/span>Yesterday I popped in EA’s new skateboarding game Skate 2. Which is a simulation game that lets players perform wild tricks. It’s got different controls than the Tony Hawk series, but that doesn’t matter for me. While the game is very good, I am very bad at it and mostly, for me, it’s an accident simulator. It’s a good game for teens and rated T-Teen but parents of younger kids should be aware that there’s a physics simulator in the game called “HALL OF MEAT.” In this tasty arena all you do is create horribly bone-shattering accidents. Sort of a skating what not to do. How that pain must feel? SHUDDER! Well, not two hours later, GamerMom learned the reality of it.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday while attending an 8-year old’s birthday party at the world famous ROLLERO Skate Rink my daughter was learning to skate. The disco was raw (Funky Town, I’m told) and the floor was … wood… and Maggie was doing well and dancing with Mom. Yeah, mom was strutting her 1980’s skater girl best and that’s when tragedy struck. Their skates bumped and Maggie went down! Linda twisted to avoid falling on her and their skates locked! Linda felt a sickening pop in her knee and the rest is pain.<\/p>\n

No broken bones, no other wounds, but that knee is immobile. This week we go to the orthepedic to see what can be done. Hopefully not surgery. I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n

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But for now? Well, for now… Mwahahahaha! Turnabout is fair play and after a year and a half of her nursing me it is now I that am nurse! And my two children are my underlings. Linda must do as I say, she has to, she’s immobile. I’m in charge of the house!<\/p>\n

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Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

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Don’t worry, we’re fine. This hasn’t even shaken our sunny attitude and it’s just what I might need to get me out of my own funk (-ey town!). I’ve got games ready for her and she’s promised Henry some Mario Kart tonight. I’m probably going to make her play Skate 2 at some point – so she can watch brutal skateboarding accidents. Or maybe not. That’d be mean. We’ll stick with the Boom Blox and Cooking Mama. Your best wishes are appreciated! But Linda wants everyone to know we’re fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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