Biased view of Gaming within your family?

[Proarcher]

So... Just wow. Ok I just sat my Mum down, as she wasn't doing anything, to watch the latest two (well three part) Extra Creditz series on Game Addiction on YouTube. Hoping to let her see how much valid, interesting information was present here about games and about countering game hype while expressing the real issues.
Bottom line..
Three quarters of the way through she stood up because she forgot to do something, so as she began to walk away I said, "Hey, it's interesting don't you think?' just trying to get some kind of reaction to all the knowledge and thought behind what she was just watching. and she simply said; It's alright, for a cartoon' and walked off.

I'm twenty and she still feels the need to patronize the forms of media I find valid and interesting. But I suppose that's what gaming and gaming discussion is to her and her generation, what it will always be I suppose. Just a cartoon and a distraction.. >_< I pity them, I really do.

 

[Vancleef]

They don't hate it. They just don't care.
To them it's just something me and my brothers spend our free time with.


Sometimes they stop and ask about things happening on the screen, but they don't really listen when I explain.

 

[Aidinthel]

My parents acknowledge games as a perfectly valid form of media that just happens to not be for them. Of course, I have the advantage of both my parents being nerds. My dad read me the LotR as a bedtime story when I was in preschool, and he's the one who showed me Cowboy Bebop.

So when I started to play games a lot, their response was to (*gasp*) sit and watch me to see what it was like before passing judgement.

 

[Shuswah_Noir]

I'm nearly 23. My parents are both gamers. But they don't share my interest in gaming news (neither does my 21 year old WoW obsessed brother). I'm constantly surrounded by anti-intellectualism, and I've learned that none of them are likely to be interested in things I find interesting/fascinating. To attempt to share said things will only bring disappointment.

 

[Farther than stars]

My dad's of a pretty prejudiced generation, but he's a pretty cool guy: he just wants me to be happy, so he's fine with me having my hobbies. Plus I remember him playing solitaire on the computer a lot when I was a kid, so he doesn't really have a leg to stand on.
My mum doesn't get video games, but then that's because she's not really good at them either. She talks to me about them sometimes though, when she's read something in the paper or something like that, so she takes an interest. But like I said, she doesn't really get them.
And that's fine you know. My dad was really into bookbinding at one point and my mum likes shopping, so they have their hobbies that I don't get and that's fine as well.

 

[Farther than stars]

My dad used to think that Grand Theft Auto made people evil. And banned me from dating any guy who plays it.

I think your dad and I could get along really well. But then again I have played GTA, so maybe not.

 

[likalaruku]

My ma, grama, & uncle all play video games. Ma is 50, grama's 75.

 

[Manji187]

So... Just wow. Ok I just sat my Mum down, as she wasn't doing anything, to watch the latest two (well three part) Extra Creditz series on Game Addiction on YouTube. Hoping to let her see how much valid, interesting information was present here about games and about countering game hype while expressing the real issues.
Bottom line..
Three quarters of the way through she stood up because she forgot to do something, so as she began to walk away I said, "Hey, it's interesting don't you think?' just trying to get some kind of reaction to all the knowledge and thought behind what she was just watching. and she simply said; It's alright, for a cartoon' and walked off.

I'm twenty and she still feels the need to patronize the forms of media I find valid and interesting. But I suppose that's what gaming and gaming discussion is to her and her generation, what it will always be I suppose. Just a cartoon and a distraction.. >_< I pity them, I really do.

You'd know your mom best...but are you sure she was being patronizing? An alternative explanation might be: the heads of adults are filled with "more important stuff" like all kinds of obligations (predominantly financial and work-related) and chores (predominantly groceries and cooking) so they find it difficult to free up some RAM for anything else.