We've been starting her on video games by showing her Kirby's Epic Yarn, which seems like a good intro platformer because it's pretty merciful about mistakes. (The character can't die or lose in any way, you just lose a little bit of stage progress and some of the game's collectables.)

Still, she's been getting really frustrated with some parts of it, repeatedly asking for help at every little setback at points. Typical for a 4 year old, but still hard to deal with.

At one point, to show her an example of how someone with more experience with games deals with frustration, I decided I'd download I Wanna Be the Guy and play it for her.

(I played it before, a long time ago. Managed to get to the final boss but could never beat it.)

Long story short, it turns out that she thinks that seeing me die in that game, repeatedly and in increasingly absurd ways, is utterly hilarious.

i mean. some games have hilarious death animations XD

At least she’s learning how to have fun with horrible in-game death!

And hey, teaching her to deal in ways that don’t involve throwing a controller across the room is good 👍

I don’t know any parents who did that >_>