{"id":12204,"date":"2012-01-21T16:46:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T00:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=12204"},"modified":"2012-01-21T16:46:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T00:46:20","slug":"gaming-with-children-sims-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/01\/21\/gaming-with-children-sims-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming with Children: Sims Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"12204\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gaming_with_kids_6.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gaming_with_kids_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gaming_with_kids_6\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weekend is time to play The Sims.  Only in real life.  I&#8217;m cleaning the house, doing the laundry, helping with the shopping, rake some leaves, mow a lawn, play with the kids, make dinner, watch a movie, maybe fornicate with the wife (even that is rare to do with kids), make breakfast, clean some more, drop my son back home, pick up my mother-in-law to watch the kids for Monday.  Weekends are fun for the family, but suck for gaming.  The only thing holding me together, besides a bottle of wine, is that by Sunday, I can see Monday.<\/p>\n<p>With all that free time you&#8217;d think you would have a chance to really spend a few hours gaming.  But you don&#8217;t.  One kid goes to dance class, the other to karate lessons.  The little one needs to be fed and diaper changed, etc., etc., etc.  Even when there&#8217;s down time you really can&#8217;t start anything, because you never know when a kid will need assistance, or they get into a fight, or want to have a tea party.  You&#8217;re basically a glorified butler.  After they&#8217;ve all gone to bed, I&#8217;d love to play League of Legends, but I&#8217;m exhausted.  Kids are like energy vampires.  I love &#8217;em, but my day job is easier than this.<\/p>\n<p>Up next: Defcon 1<br \/>\nClick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/01\/20\/gaming-with-children-g-d-i-f\/\">here<\/a> for the previous entry<\/p>\n<p><em>J.P. Lucas works, pays bills, eats, and sleeps. He changes diapers. Lots of diapers.  And he does whatever his wife tells him to do. It&#8217;s safer that way.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-diaries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gaming with Children: Sims Saturday - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/01\/21\/gaming-with-children-sims-saturday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gaming with Children: Sims Saturday - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/01\/21\/gaming-with-children-sims-saturday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-22T00:46:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gaming_with_kids_6.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"J.P. 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