This was a great idea for our seven year olds.
My brother and I both have seven year old boys, and we decided to buy Nintendo DSi for them as Christmas gifts. They each got their own, of course, or there would have been a great deal of fighting over it. And we have watched in total amazement as they have sat, totally quiet, for hours playing the games. They still play with their other toys sometimes, but mostly they sit around playing the DSi system. We like to buy them new games as rewards when they have been really good or when they’ve been trying really hard in school. It has worked out to be a very good reward system for both our families. The boys have figured out that when we don’t have to tell them things like “clean up your room” or “get your homework done”, that we go out and buy Nintendo DSi games for them as rewards. Ok, maybe it’s bribery, but it works.
The kids also like the internet feature- I had read about that in Nintendo DSi reviews, but I hadn’t thought that the boys would be very interested in it. But they like to go into the online store, and look through all the stuff they can download. Some of it is free, and I thought that the free stuff would be kind of cheesy, but they actually like it. It’s nice when kids like free stuff. That way we don’t have to, you know, buy it. I never thought for a second when I went to buy DSi for my son that he would like the free games. Weird.
When I found out where to buy Nintendo DSi, I went there and bought the system and several games as well, just to get him started. While I was reading the box, I also saw that it had a memory card slot, so I bought one of those too. I didn’t realize that it could save so many different things. It can save all the pictures that the kids can take with the Nintendo DSi built in digital camera feature- which is mostly the kids taking pictures of the dogs. It can save music that we download from the computer, and of course it can save the games that they download and all the saves that they do while they are playing games- that’s so they can go right back to the same spot where they stopped last time in a certain game. That particular feature is extremely handy at bedtime. If I tell my son to go to bed, he can just save and go right back to that spot next time. That way, he can’t tell me that he ‘has to beat this level’ before he can go to bed or he’ll have to start all over. He actually did that a couple of times before I got wise to it. Anyway, I would have to say that the DSi system has been a great buy and I have no regrets.
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