Lukas has turned into a Mario freak...and my husband and him will sit and play and have all sorts of fun together! Lukas will sit and play Mario when he isn't playing Mario with his imagination and Mario will be his food, a car, or even a piece of something he finds. We try to limit him and his play time. I don't want him to do it all day long all the time, but we do allow him if he has had a good day to play for an hour in the evening or if he has a good day on the weekend then he will get to play. Mario has become a reward!
If you do play on his team though he gets a little possessive and competitive when it comes to playing. I have a couple examples:
1. He will want all the flowers and fliers. He doesn't like to share them and freaks out or cries if he doesn't get it and you do. We are trying to teach him to share and sometimes he will say "OK you can have the flower or flier".
2. He will run way ahead sometimes and that kills your player. If he does this too much I stop playing with him, which makes him mad because he wants us to play along with him. He has gotten a little better with this. He will almost follow you now sometimes, just so you can fight or kill something he knows that will kill him.
3. He likes to tell you when you can't do something and he can. He likes to rub it in! I told him that people won't want to play with him if he is telling them they can't do things. He has to be polite and play.
All in all Mario has been a great tool for getting him to eat his supper, pick up toys, or being good at school and daycare. All of these things would cause him to not get to play if he didn't do them.
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