Gates allows daughter 45 minutes of playing video

Remember Bill Gates‘ rather thoughtless remark that Viva Pinata is a game for girls? Well, it seems now that his comment was sparked by his very own daughter.

Gates shared that her 10-year old daughter was not a hardcore gamer until this year when the young girl started at a school where students use tablet computers for virtually everything. While addressing a business audience in Ottawa, Gates shared,

She became very avid and discovered a lot of computer games, including one that runs on the Xbox 360 called Viva Pinata, where you take care of your garden. She could spend two or three hours a day on this Viva Pinata, because it’s kind of engaging and fun.

It doesn’t mean though that you can spend all your time playing just because you’re Bill Gates’ daughter. The co-founder of Microsoft then said that he and his wife Melinda set a limit of 45 minutes a day of total game time and one hour a day during weekends. He then became somewhat serious and commented,

Up to some age, to be determined, it’s very appropriate for a parent to get a sense of what they’re seeing out there and be able to have conversations about it. My son said, ‘Am I going to have limits like this my whole life?’, and I said, ‘No, when you move away you can set your own screen limits’.

Remember Bill Gates‘ rather thoughtless remark that Viva Pinata is a game for girls? Well, it seems now that his comment was sparked by his very own daughter.

Gates shared that her 10-year old daughter was not a hardcore gamer until this year when the young girl started at a school where students use tablet computers for virtually everything. While addressing a business audience in Ottawa, Gates shared,

She became very avid and discovered a lot of computer games, including one that runs on the Xbox 360 called Viva Pinata, where you take care of your garden. She could spend two or three hours a day on this Viva Pinata, because it’s kind of engaging and fun.

It doesn’t mean though that you can spend all your time playing just because you’re Bill Gates’ daughter. The co-founder of Microsoft then said that he and his wife Melinda set a limit of 45 minutes a day of total game time and one hour a day during weekends. He then became somewhat serious and commented,

Up to some age, to be determined, it’s very appropriate for a parent to get a sense of what they’re seeing out there and be able to have conversations about it. My son said, ‘Am I going to have limits like this my whole life?’, and I said, ‘No, when you move away you can set your own screen limits’.