minecraft, yep don’t get it either but the boy loves it.
An I the only one reading his thinking when I was young I had an ornate and chocolate coins?!?!
bit of perspective here… yes you are quite right and i’m definitely not in the spending heaps on the kids league at xmas. the reason he’s getting an xbox, split between us and the grandparents, is that he’s saved all his money all year to buy one. even offering to clean the car for 50p to add to the pot, and this afternoon he’s out with grandma delivering leaflets for an elderly day centre to earn another fiver (well, 3quid – 2quid he’s decided to spend on sweets) so he can get closer to buying one. he has not hassled me at all, well, not much anyway. he’s got about 90quid all up, good commitment for a 9 year old i think, so i reckon he deserves to now get one and save his own cash for a new surfboard or something next summer.