Re: OT: Children and video games

Well, I'm not a parent (I'm being parented), but the policy in our home
is, always was and will be : NO VIDEO GAMES. As for Nintendo(and the
like): We don't have the playing apparatus; we don't have the hand held
controllers, . Nothing. It has worked quite well, in my opinion. Gets
the kids either reading or outside playing. I didn't have cable or
internet for 3/4 of my life(not a very long time, considering I'm 17).
Rules are lax now, but I never got in the habit of playing so...
In my *expert* opinion: smash the thing to smithereens and stick the kid
in football.



Cristina Escalante

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-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Benct Philip Jonsson
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:26 AM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: OT: Children and video games

I'm sorry for this completely OT question, but since you guys
are my best friends on the net I put this question to those
among you who are parents.

My six year old son has become totally obsessed with video
games.  He either plays sports games on the computer, or
watches sport on the TV, and has totally creased to play
in the more traditional sense.  We don't want him to play
*all* the time, but when we try to make him do other things
he flies into a rage. So my question to the parents among
you is: what is your parental policy on video games?

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/BP 8^)
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

         Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
                                             (Tacitus)


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