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October 27, 2008, 4:01 am PDT
 Quote From: seenfff I think that you're making some serious mistakes. You're disiplining your son because he doesn't enjoy other hobbies, and you don't trust him to not become one of those two men who played MMORPG's until real life became a problem. This is what I suggest.
1) Games are like novels and movies. Research the games that your son plays and introduce him to other ways to enjoy those genres. RPGs and Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games are in the Fantasy genre. Your son will likely be interested in reading books in this genre and watch movies in this genre. 1st and 3rd Person Shooters are in the war and action genre. Get him a toy gun, tell him no pointing it at people unless it's a nerf or squirt gun, and tell him to use his imagination outside. If he plays sports games like Madden or Racing games, take him to something like Swings and Things and take him to the Go-Carts, or introduce him to the school's sports or a sporting League.
2) Do not disipline him without due cause. Until he breaks a legitimate rule, he should not be punished. If you expand his interests through plausible and reasonable means, he will likely filter those new interests to his friends.
This should get you better results. your ideas are really great as a gamer and my family loves video games we some times play game together as a family like mario kart and mario party 8. so you should hang out with your child do not let them play game you think they a not mature enough to play.my cousin(8) plays grand theft auto sanandras and get excited when he steals a cops car kills the officer and runs 50 people over. when i play the game i drive crazy but i have 10 years of gaming experience so i dont kill people unless the mission is to. so i have i idea like DR. Phil said see how much your kids play video games reward them for the amount of hours they get exercise and read library books. if your child goes over a friends house talk to their parents about this our show them this episode.but game teach you hand eye cordnazation, i play soccer and take computer application at school and it has paid off. so strect your kids to a serain amount of hours they can play. the wii,xbox 360 and computers have parental controls where you can set the amount of time spent on the games, but the wii over heats after 4 hours of play,do not set a password on the pc, some days your child needs the internet for school or to sent you a email. you can block game websites. get your children the new ME2 handheld were they can get lots of fun stuff for there avatar online for exersicing some days play racing games with your child or exersice games like wii fit . |
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