What Kids Learn From Failing in Games
I’ve seen kids lose the same minigame eleven times in a row once and still keep going back . Getting that same kid to redo a homework problem they got wrong without a whole negotiation, well… the difference, as far as I can tell, is that in the game the failure doesn’t feel like a verdict. It just feels like information
How to Tell When Something Has Gone Wrong Online
Kids don’t always come home and announce that something uncomfortable happened online. Sometimes they just go quiet. Or they suddenly don’t want to play a game they were obsessed with last week. Or they get weirdly defensive when you ask a pretty normal question about what they were doing.
