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Children get upset about all kinds of things, and it's important to help them understand and resolve their emotions, no matter how silly it is.

Eighty cows is a minor inconvenience at worst and like four stacks of steak at best.

So I feel like the confusion here isn't just coming from how to handle the griefer child or how to get the cows out of the house. I think it's more to do with the novelty of the situation.

Why is the child upset by this? Does he not like to kill cows in the game? Is there something preventing him from luring the cows out of the house? Was he just unpleasantly surprised by it and hadn't thought through whether or not it was a big deal? There's a lot of layers to this.

Or maybe this guy just never played Minecraft.

Make it a learning opportunity; teach them come up with a solution. Kill the excess, or make a pen and leaf them into it, that kind of thing.

Ah, you need a creeper!

Minecraft gets even more confusing when your friend tells you he's got to go fish for some bees.

I mean it is good that he doesn't want to just indiscriminately wipe out the population of housed cows

Bitch your fuckin profile picture is spagett!, if you can't understand some oddity what broke you?

Depends, if the kiddo did it in survival mode you should probably congratulate him. If it was in creative then you have yourself a griefer. Griefers should be shot into the sun. I am sorry for your loss.

Maybe I'm parenting wrong, but my 5 year old has no idea what Minecraft is, let alone knows how to play it. The only video games she's ever played is some Super Mario Bros 3 on a vacation once. She doesn't even know how to do anything on our iPad except use the sketchpad app for drawing.

Hey! Get those cows out of your brother's Minehouse, okay buddy? And tell your brother you're sorry! And don't do it again! Leave your brother's Minehouse alone, got it?

Yeah, Minecraft, whatever, just knock it off.

Burn the house down, free steak

No different than if one child messes up the Lego build that another built. This is nothing new, only digital. Typical sibling annoyance.

Struggling to parent this issue is just showing signs of being a shitty parent.

You tell them to knock it off and teach one child to have empathy and care for others by thinking of how they'd feel if someone messed up something they built.

Sometimes you could also just chalk it up to kids being kids, so long as it isn't constant.

But to be honest, at these ages, the 5 year old probably doesn't fully understand. Just need to put some limits and maybe have them stay in their own sandbox in the game for now.

I was only allowed on the computer occasionally until I was 10 (a few hours per week) and I only got access to the internet when I was 12.

I consider that good parenting.

Honestly, just use their accounts to start playing in a sincere effort to fix the problem manually. They'll quickly learn that nothing they can do to each other is worse than your mediation. I call that "The Solomon Approach."

It could be worse, #1: when my nephew was 4, I built him a house in Minecraft creative mode. And then I hid a lot of TNT below the house; they'd be triggered by the pressure plate near the door. (inb4 it's common to put a pressure plate near doors in Minecraft, so they open automatically.) He entered the house, and "tttssssssBBOOOOOMMM!". He started crying. My sister (his mum) was nearby, and begun laughing, then the kid got to cry harder. I wanted to surprise the kid, not to scare him! (Thankfully I kept a copy of the world before rigging the house with TNT. As I loaded the copy he calmed down.)

It could be worse, #2: when I was 16, one of my cousins was 8. I was into a game we mocked as "Paint Online" (Tibia, a MMO). He was learning the ropes of the game, barely out of the beginners' island. Some random afternoon, he phones me, crying: "[my nickname]!!!! HELP MEEEEE!!!! I lost my worms, I lost my fishing rod, I lost EVERYTHING!!!". He died in the game, lost his items, and he was literally crying! I had to stop everything I was doing, log into the game, get a fishing rod + a full stack of worms from my depot, some random food, and give to the kid. Otherwise he would not leave me bloody alone.

Sword with looting and fire aspect. Enjoy your leather and cooked steak.

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