Re: OT: Children and video games

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:26:08 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> 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?
[I'm not a parent, but:]
Boredom is just as much the mother of addiction as it is of arts [to bring in
another thread]--If there's nothing else he likes to do, then he will naturally
get upset when it's taken away.

I can't presume to offer advice, but having been like that a child brought up
on video games I can tell you what my parents did, which was to establish
playing limits (by amount of time mainly), and require me to spend a certain
amount of time outdoors everyday.  I hated it too.  :p   [But that's no
endorsement, really, as I still now spend all my free time in front of the
computer...]


	*Muke!
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