Posts Tagged ‘hobby’

Healthy To Compromise

Monday, May 12th, 2008

If you are a parent, finding a hobby to do with your child can be very hard, and it can be even harder for a child to find something they like to do with their parent. With some parent-child couples, this comes easy. For instance, my father and I both love the Utah Jazz so we go to games together. Another friend of mine goes hunting with his dad about once a month. Sometimes, it is just hard to find common ground though, especially if you are a dad trying to find something to do with your daughter, or vice versa.

I have a few ideas that parents and children who cannot find common ground can do. Usually parents and children have to compromise in order to have a long lasting relationship. I know of one family who will flip a coin to determine who gets to choose the movie, and let’s say the son wins the toss and gets to choose, then the mom still can veto one of his movie choices. Instead of doing either one person’s activity or another, one family simply does both. Each write down something fun they want to do, and they try to get to both each week. It essentially comes to compromising.

A Fit Plan To Become A Video Game Designer

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Many teenagers want to become video game designers. What could possibly be more fun? Everyone who plays video games often knows exactly what type of games are fun and have thought more than once about video games they wish someone would make. Designing games is not something you can do as a hobby unfortunately. A new video game for Xbox 360 or PS3 has hundreds of hours of work put into it and requires extensive artistic capabilities.

For someone to live the dream and become a video game designer it requires extensive training on computer programming languages like C# or C++. A person generally has to major in computer programming in college to even be able to start to comprehend how a complex video game works. However, there are many online colleges that can help you with this goal in addition to books you can find at virtually any bookstore. Designing video games could be a great career if you are into spending hours writing code and testing new ideas; it is not as appealing as it might sound on paper, but if that is what you want to do then be ready to put in the effort to learn how to program.