My 5-year-old has learned more from playing video games than from watching ‘Sesame Street’

Thimbleweed Park stole my son’s heart and refuses to let go

If my husband and I could go back in time to tell our younger selves that our son would embrace Ron Gilbert’s smart, stylish adventure games as wholeheartedly as we had when we were young… our younger selves would probably have laughed themselves silly.

“Wait, I’m going to be a parent one day?” Insert raucous laughter here.

But that’s what’s happened: our almost-6-year-old has now played Thimbleweed Park all the way through a staggering 15 times. While Trials, Overcooked, LittleBigPlanet 3 and TowerFall trained up his motor skills, Thimbleweed Park is actively teaching him to use logical problem-solving through reading, interaction and puzzles. Read more (Opinion)

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