joanish

I'm a 30ish mom with a 6year old obsessed with Pokemon. I don't get it, but I want to. What is a good place for me to start learning? All the YouTube videos I search for are just too fast or teach with an assumption that I know what the fuck is going on (clearly I don't). I learn by doing so the instructions that come with it don't help me, believe me I tried. I just want to play a legit game of Pokemon with my kiddo.

UPDATE: thank you everyone for all the great suggestions!! I talked to him this morning and we are going to look into the online Pokemon TCG online, I have found the parental page on Pokemon.com, and then checking out a few comic book stores today. He was so excited to hear that we are going to further explore this together. What a wonderful community, thank you again for being so helpful.

UPDATE 2: we spent the whole morning playing Pokemon TCG online and it was so much easier than I thought it would be. We already know so much more! He's with the grandparents now, but I see a lot more games in our future.

UPDATE 3: GOLD?!?! Amazing!! It's my first ever, thank you u/LaraCroftWithBCups and really everyone for so much help. http://i.imgur.com/tOcMP2C.jpg

Thank you! Of course, I didn't even think to go there. I'm sure he'll be thrilled when I suggest that we watch tutorials of Pokemon together.

Thank you! Now, if you feel the same way about your mom, go call her and tell her the same thing. We love you sweetie.

So I wanted to be slightly cool and not just come out and ask you what Pokemon tcg was. Googled it thinking seperate game. The card game. It means Pokemon the card game.

I'm sure you are, darling