[Deptheads] Child Care at the Convention

[Patrick Havert]

I think we are looking at this the wrong way.

We need to generate some Family Friendly programming, and do a nice write up 
of why "The Family that Plays together, Stays together".  We can then have 
various games during 10am-6pm that can be family oriented programming.  We 
want Families to play together, not to make programming that lets people 
drop their kids off.

For little kids we can have Family Crafts, or other programming that I am 
sure someone with small kids can think of as a good plan.  This would still 
involve the "Family" Aspect, rather than a babysitting aspect.  If the kids 
are mature enough to play other games then great, but for the children that 
need supervision, this is kind of like "Mommy and Me" classes.

What do you think about this spin?

-Patrick


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janice Sellers" <janicemsj at gmail.com>
To: <deptheads at strategicon.net>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] Child Care at the Convention


> Perhaps this is a particular skew with board gamers?  Something that
> just came to mind is that last year's Star Wars convention was at the
> L.A. Convention Center, which is in a far, far worse area than the
> airport.  I didn't attend myself, but I definitely heard there were
> lots of young attendees, so the area apparently didn't stop people
> from bringing their children, whether they then stayed at the
> convention with them or left them to enjoy the convention on their
> own.  And this year's Anime Expo will be at the LACC also, and I'm
> sure there will be young attendees at it also.
>
> Janice
>
> On 2/11/08, Eric Burgess <erburgess at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just to add to this: I've had many board gamers say they would come out 
>> if
>> the con were in a nicer area.
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