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After reading this I thought back to my childhood, the games of cowboys and indians, pirates, Star Wars at an older age, and really, not a lot has changed in how kids play games or 'act-out' inside games . . .
Come and check out David's take on the situation as a father of several kids ranging in age . . has it changed all that much? How old is old-enough to play shooters these days?
“I’m going to kill you! Die now!”
I have to admit I felt rather concerned at both the strong tone and sentiment expressed so loudly by my six year old son as he played a shooter game.
I even looked around to see if his mother had heard the normally mild-mannered little cutie shouting death threats at the TV.
Mind you he wasn’t playing Modern Warfare 2 or Left4Dead 2…and he wasn’t hooked up to Xbox Live.
He’s only allowed to play fairly mild local multiplayer games like Perfect Dark or older Gamecube James Bond or Timesplitters games, partly because they are much less realistic and partly because they have AI controlled bots and he hates losing to his older brothers.
“My name is Hilton Montoya (name changed)…you killed my father. Prepare to DIE!”
Obviously he had been watching too much Princess Bride too.
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But we don't - simple as that. Even staff at stores get abused by parents for suggesting that the 18 (MA15+) game they are buying their 10 yr old is just NOT appropriate. Their usual response is that it's just a teenagers game, as it has just a 15 rating, so don't tell me what I can buy my kids - or words to that effect.
I know this because we have retail staff on the team, and I've interviewed both parents and store staff on the matter.
Factions get the words and twist them to suit their own agenda, and use the public forums (media) to exploit it to their advantage, ie; SA Attorney General as one example.
Yet I bet he grew up throwing maidens in fires, pushing pirates off ships into the jaws of sharks, shooting indians and chopping the heads off dragons when he was a kid.
Yet no he's an "adult', he only wants to use his position to exploit a loophole and tell other parents what to do, not allow them the chance to make up their own minds.
I know I used to play with rifles, guns etc when I was young, and actually had a much more violent playtime than I do now using video games.
But do you see me running riot storming schools, shooting up the 'hood and causing social unrest. No, in fact, I'm more for NOT doing such things now.
Kids are kids, but parents need to take a large part in their development, kids as a rule look to the older ones for guidance, to find out their boundaries.
Givethem no boundaries, and they do anything they please . .let them get away with almost anything, and they will push the limits to excess. Give them some boundaries and they will follow them, Doesn't mean they won't push it, but if they know there is a consequence for their actions, they are less likely to do it to the full extent they might if left unchecked.
YEs, I'm an adult, a father of 3 grown adult children, one of which is now 33yrs old. But he thanks us for setting boundaries, even though he did break them, but also suffered the consequences for doing so.
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