#Spacechem no thanks necessary upgrade#

SOME of these games may be available on consoles (PS4, Xbox, Nintendo), but we tend not to do consoles in our home because, first of all, everyone would be fighting for a turn (we prefer playing co-op games on our own screens instead of split screens), and second of all, it ends up costing more in the long run with how often you need to upgrade consoles. There are a number of games that will not run at all, or with great difficulty (to the point of frustration in the form of lagging and crashing), unless you have invested into a proper gaming computer.

#Spacechem no thanks necessary free#

Free (including retro games), ones that cost $ that can be run on most computers, and ones that need a gaming rig. The lists will be split up into several sections. That being said, even when it’s their free time, they’ll still go outside and play, it’s not all just video games.

#Spacechem no thanks necessary how to#

A day here and there reminding them that procrastinating didn’t pay off because they now have more work to do and didn’t get any game time, and they will quickly learn how to prioritize and balance their time ( a necessary life skill I might add). If they spend the entire day procrastinating and not doing their work, all I do is remind them that the clock’s ticking. So it’s not necessarily limited in how many hours per day they just need to get their work done first. My daughter is then motivated to get through all her schoolwork in the morning, so that way she has plenty of free time in the afternoon to game and play and whatever, and I can then focus on my own work. Mine will not, and so thanks to Microsoft family settings, I can set hours when they are blocked from launching certain games (so yes, that way they can still play an educational game, but not some of the others). I do actually limit screen time a bit - some parents find their kids focus better if they get to do some gaming in the morning. I thought that maybe it would help my credibility in providing you with these lists if you knew I was coming from the point of a gamer mom who homeschools and incorporates gaming into the curriculum. And yes, I do mean series, because there are SO MANY GAMES.

#Spacechem no thanks necessary series#

Why am I telling you this? Because the next few homeschool posts are going to be a series of lists of educational games ( though they do take me some time to collect and put together) - video games, not board games, because we already have an awesome resource for that list. These days you won’t see me up before the sun. Oh the days of us waking up before sunrise to play a co-op game before heading off to work, or our occasional staycations just to play games together all day. Lately I tend to turn to my art first, and then if I’m in a creative funk I’ll take a break to play a game.

I don’t play nearly as often or as much as I used to - before kids that was pretty much most of I did (of course I still had my art and an ETSY shop back in ye olde Etsy days when it was more of a community), and it’s the thing my husband and I bonded over, and still do. My first personal computer that wasn’t a laptop I needed for college was gifted to me by my husband for our first Christmas together, in pieces of course (and then he spent the entire day teaching me how to put it together). My interests are generally a whole list of weird dichotomies, for instance how I love certain aspects of a far more simple life (gardening, hand stitching, baking bread, etc.), and yet at the same time I’m techy to the point of having built my own gaming rig and over the past 15+ years have logged a significant number of hours into games.

This may or may not come as a surprise to you, but I am an avid video game geek. We still do other lesson work including hands-on science, reading books, watching documentaries and exploring wherever possible while staying safe, i.e. We love games here, but these are an accessory, not the core of what we do. It’s a wonderful addition to help reinforce what they’re already learning, or possibly trigger any new interests - and it’s definitely helpful on those days when you’re low on energy but need to give your kids something educational to focus on. If you’re homeschooling, you understand that this is meant to be a supplement and not a replacement for the child’s entire curricula. I’m also not sure if these games would work on chromebooks.

#Spacechem no thanks necessary install#

If your children are distance learning and have a chromebook from school, I have absolutely no knowledge of how that contract works, and/or if they are able to install their own content on those laptops.

Disclaimer: This was a planned post from months ago, long before anyone had any idea that schools would be going virtual and many parents opting to homeschool their kids instead.