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Are there any dad's that play, and how do you balance WoW out with your family
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Play when the baby is asleep. If your in a raid, warn them ahead of time you might have to suddenly afk to help with the baby. Finally, do not, under any circumstances, ignore the wife/gf/mother of the baby; then you'll have lots of WoW play time....and won't be getting anything else.(Not a dad, but just things I've noticed from those who are in my guild lol)
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sutasafaia
Er, it's very easy. Family and life come first, WoW comes second. If you have no time for WoW for a few days thats really to bad for WoW. Gaming should never take priority over family, life, or friends in any way shape or form. If you have to wonder "Should I be spending time with my family right now?" the answer is yes, every time.
After you've spent a few hours with your family, if they want to do their own thing, go play a game. But they have priority.
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TheReal
I'm one of those dads you speak of, and honestly it's not easy to balance my WoW time with my life. Basically, my wife gets to sleep in on Thursday and I stay up all night Wednesday in order to get a few consecutive hours to raid and then level an alt or work on my UI. I think I'm keeping Monster in business. Anyhow, I work from home too, and basically set my own schedule. I don't know your particular situation, but I'd be willing to call mine a "special case."
In before WoW > RL
Post by
Murrdurr
I have a 2yr old son and I usually just play when he goes to sleep. Sometimes I will play in the morning but nothing more than a few heroics.
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wolfeyoung
Raiding will be the hardest part, if not impossible. Telling your family that you are raiding on Tuesday is pointless. If the baby needs you, the baby needs you. If the mother needs you, the mother needs you. It's not just a matter of being AFK for a minute. You may be needed of 20,30 minutes to all night. The only way that you could raid without interruption is to have the baby and mother leave and go somewhere while you raid. And that's not really a fair thing to ask.
You're best bet is to just level some characters. Do a few BG's. Do heroics as a dps, that way you can level the instance w/o feeling you're letting anyone down.
It is not easy to play a game like WoW and be a father. But let me give you some parenting advice. You are the man, and you will be the keystone for how your child views all men in their life. Make them have a positive outlook. Be there when you're needed. This game, and other hobbies in life, come and go. WoW will always be around (or something just like it). You child will only be a baby for so long and they'll only 5 for so long and then 6 and 7 etc.
I have a daughter and I've always said that the way I treat her, is the way she'll believe all men should treat her. If I ignore her to play this game, then that will become a man's role to her.
Good luck with being a father and have patience.
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Mozblue
I really don't understand whats wrong with having one evening a week that's "Raid night" where the other half takes care of the baby, as long as you do the same for her on another night of the week so she can do her hobby. It's no different to people who go to a bowling club or AmDram. The main herdal is that your still in the house which to some other halfs is some how different to doing a hobby that's out of the hosue!
Then fit in Heroics and Leveling when the Babies asleep and the other half watching TV or reading etc. Just make sure to use some baby asleep time to spend time with her.
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Squishalot
I really don't understand whats wrong with having one evening a week that's "Raid night" where the other half takes care of the baby, as long as you do the same for her on another night of the week so she can do her hobby. It's no different to people who go to a bowling club or AmDram. The main herdal is that your still in the house which to some other halfs is some how different to doing a hobby that's out of the hosue!
Then fit in Heroics and Leveling when the Babies asleep and the other half watching TV or reading etc. Just make sure to use some baby asleep time to spend time with her.
There's nothing wrong with it. You just still need to be prepared to drop everything when you're needed. At no point should you be saying "Honey, it's Wednesday, you know it's raiding night and I can't help out - /ignore".
Play when the baby is asleep. If your in a raid, warn them ahead of time you might have to suddenly afk to help with the baby. Finally, do not, under any circumstances, ignore the wife/gf/mother of the baby; then you'll have lots of WoW play time....and won't be getting anything else.(Not a dad, but just things I've noticed from those who are in my guild lol)
QFT, this. Do the right thing by your raid members and warn them, but above all else, do the right thing by your family.
Post by
manahm
I'm a casual raider & WoW is a hobby to me, and have family..
I usually play when kids are asleep, or when I'm home alone due odd working hours or something like that.
Raiding is no problem either, as we agreed on that with mrs. I have one or two nights every week for raiding. Kids have gone to sleep when our raids start, so they don't mind.
Find a guild where most members are in similar situation as you. They understand family is first, game second. If you apply and get to some HC-raid guild, they won't probaply understand your situation as well as more relaxed guild.
Getting to a nice (casual?) guild can get you to raids more easily, if you are into those, and you don't have to monitor trade channel pugs, what takes away your game time. For example, we have fixed raid nights, so family knows when I'm raiding.
You can mix family & warcraft, it just takes some planning (not much really), how do want to play, what content to play, and when.
My .02€ on topic...
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My husband and I are lucky enough to enjoy wow together, tho there are still times we want to spend time together away from wow. As your kids get older it gets easier, our 5 year old is obsessed with wow and Halo so we all have a "game time" and our almost 2 year old usually sits and plays right here near our pcs so we can interact and what not, it's not hard to take time out in between heroics or leveling to read a book, or color a picture while yes you're not "grinding continuously" but you're getting some wow in and still spending time w/ your kiddo, our guild knows we go afk often, and sometimes a brb turns into a 2 hour excursion depending on what is going on. We find raiding after kids bedtime is the easiest, the youngest we put to bed before raid time (or rather start raid time after she's in bed) and our oldest we can take a 5 minute break after saurfang and put him to bed usually, life comes before wow but it shouldn't be crazy insane to work some wow time.
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