DH just sent this to me

RondackHiker

Kaydfry2411

Haha I sent that pic to my DH the other day! Totally something I could see him doing!

Wine O Mite

HAHA.  Is that really him?  And your kids?

GENIUS IDEA! 

RondackHiker

Wine O Mite:

HAHA. nbsp;Is that really him? nbsp;And your kids?GENIUS IDEA!nbsp;

No, not us. He found it online. He wants to replicate it though!

RockyTopVols

haha I do this to my nephew. 

If I am playing on my PS3 and he wants to play too, but I am in the middle of an important rivalry game in my NCAA 13 dynasty league.... I'll give him a controller without powering it on and let him "help" me win the game.

 

 

kmawb

My DH does this with DD on his XBox (her controller has no batteries in it) and she thinks it's great fun to play the game with Daddy.  He is careful to watch her hands every few minuites and mimick her moves so that she thinks she's the one controlling the game.

klondikebar

DH did this before when he was playing with the 2 older kids. The youngest thought he was playing too. He's too old to fall for that trick now though.

LuckyDad

I wonder at what age this stops working?

MommaG123

Haha I could see MH doing this.  I wouldn't think it would work for that long though.  My niece is 5 and I'm pretty sure she would know whether she was actually doing anything or not with her controller.  Maybe not though.

Smootchy

Ha! That's awesome!

msdrdg

My friend tried that with her son.  He's 2, he didn't fall for it.  She ended up having to let him "play" a game.

RockyTopVols

Spooko:

LuckyDad:

I wonder at what age this stops working?

Depends on the game.

 I think this matters a lot. 

Playing football helps because there are 22 guys on the field. He usually picks a team color of whomever is playing... and when the ball is snapped, he just moves buttons around anyway and the whole team is moving.  So he thinks he is moving all of them.

But playing an RPG/shooter type game wouldn't work I think because you control one character on the screen so he may be honed in one that one character and wondering why his button controls don't work.

These days when he wants to play- I just put Gran Turismo 5 on, let him pick a car he likes, turn on all of the assists, and let him drive around like a mad man on various race tracks.  

klondikebar

LuckyDad:

I wonder at what age this stops working?

It's really obvious once they realize the light on the controller isn't on. I don't remember when it didn't work with DS b/c he only did it a couple of times. Around 3 maybe?

NerdyMama2

Hahaha!