Zero.

But one day I wish to have a daughter, just one, because I look at my mother (I'm her only son) and wonder how she hasn't gone absolutely insane.

Anyway, if I ever have a daughter she'll play with an Ouya.

I was 36 when we had our first. I still haven't recovered from the sleep deprivation 7 years later. I don't know if I'm ever going to be truly awake again. They keep you young though, I've build more sandcastles in my 40's than as a kid lol.

The hardest part is they always pick up some kind of flu etc from school. They cough and keep us up all night, then are fine in the morning again. Can't wait until the summer break, 2 months of not dealing with that crap! Being sick as a parent sucks even more, no calling in sick from work and play videogames all day in bed, that ship has sailed.

More changes than gaming habits ofcourse. The tv and movie content we watch has to be kid friendly unil they finally are asleep, and then we almost fall asleep trying to watch something since it's getting after 9 already :/ I can play video games at night yet most movies put me to sleep nowadays. Same with music, can't blast Smack my bitch up through the house anymore. Plus they're allergic to anything that's louder than themselves anyway. So videogames habits have actually survived the best out of entertainement options. We also don't play boardgames much anymore as it's just too much hassle. Our last game of Settlers is still sitting on the table from over a month ago.

For you and wife or for kids?

I can see why Settlers might be hassle, while still a great game after 22 years, it's bit too much sometimes, especially for younger kids - I taught it to my kids when they were 8 and 6, and while they like it, they prefer other games more (though I got my hands on the copy of Catan Ancient Egypt recently, so they're excited about that). Catan Junior is decent version for young ones, plays much faster and there's pirate theme on top of it (not that strong, to be fair), though it might be too simple for older kids and adults.

To all sit down at the same time is the first obstacle, plus all the preparations and keeping both kids engaged through the game. They are 7 and 5, still a small attention span. My 7 year old played one game of Ticket to ride with me, hopefully he'll get more into that later. He likes Carcassone (with simplified rules) and Stratego. The younger one will participate in simple boardgames, but is more into building towers.

I used to play 1830 for hours and hours with friends. It will be a while until they're upto that, which might be too late for me lol. I didn't really get into more complex boardgames until I was 16 myself. Risk was about the most 'advanced' until then.

haha none of mine are in school yet so i havent had to deal with that part yet but i agree with you 100% about movies.

the last 30 times my wife and i have tried to sit down and watch a movie after the kids went down, i have passed out within the first 10 minutes.

my oldest is going to be 4 this summer and she is starting to get interested in playing games with me. we have been playing a bit of Car Game (Fast RMX) lately and she really likes to watch me play Snake Game (Snake Pass).

My kids started at age 3 with wii sports resort. Even at 2 he already enjoyed crashing the plane for a few giggles. Mario was/is ofcourse a big hit, the co-op versions came just in time. MK8 and Lego city undercover were huge hits, which reminds me, it's out on ps4 and my youngest has just wiped out all savegames again on the WiiU (choosing new game trying to find his savegame ugh, every time). They'll very likely enjoy playing it together. They play lego worlds in splitscreen on my laptop yet that runs like a dog. Actually Knack was good to play with a kid as you can keep the game going as the parent, keep him safe at all costs.

And then there's the monster called Minecraft. They were already interested, with the ps4 release we started playing together and have made one giant world together with all kinds of different environments. I hope it will carry over and we can revisit it when they grow up. I wonder what they'll think of it later. (Dumb kiddie game perhaps lol)

Atm it's Zelda and 1-2 switch with their friends. Kids actually like that!

Axis & Allies was most complex game I've played when I was a lot, lot younger...then I kinda stopped playing boardames for really, really long time, and started again just a few years ago.

I tend to stay away from such complex games as 1830, anything with weight above 2.5 on BGG I'll most likely skip...not that I don't want to play some of them (like Twilight Imperium or Tzolk'in), it's just that these days, given that I mostly play with kids, at this age, anything above weight of 2 can already be taxing for them (though they seem to like Isle of Skye, Mission: Red Planet and Tikal for example)....I guess eventually we'll move to heavier stuff, especially since they both gravitate toward thematic stuff, which is usually at 3+ weight.

Have you tried Jamaica with you kids? It's fairly light game, with easy rules, plays quick and looks gorgeous. I tend to suggest it these days to eveyone trying to get their kids into boardgames, since I've seen it succeed on numerous occassions, both with boys and girls.

Since you said your 7 year old likes Carcassonne, have you tried Carcassonne: South Seas? We all love Carcassonne (especially Hunters and Gatherers), but I find that farms tend to be a bit too much for younger kids to comprehend right away. South Seas not only sort of streamlines farms mechanism, but introduces resources instead of points with which you load different ships for points....plus it looks much better on table then original Carcassonne.

Colt Express is something that my kids also like a lot, 3D components make it look really great on table and while it can be a bit chaotic, it's lot of fun.

Thanks for the suggestions, they look beautiful. Graphics do matter with kids :)
I'll keep an eye out for them at my local game store.

The fuck is that poll? Excluding like 95% of people in this forum^^

How manage with so many kids? lol