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Hedra42 on 30 March 2015
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rutea7 said:
Augen said:
rutea7 said:
I honestly want to bitch slap the parents when I see them buying a 9 year old games like GTA and COD... I did play PG13 and some older rated games when I was 10 years old but most of those parents don't even know their kids well enough to make an educated decision on what to allow them nowadays, they just want them off their back.

Besides, graphics and violence on screen are way more graphic then they were 20 years ago. Playing Street Fighter and playing GTA are two very different things.


To me it is not so much the buying as the attitude.  My parents bought me M rated games before I was 18, but they also talked to me and took notice of any poor behavior with discipline (I lost my Sega Genesis for month after I shouted a swear word...and that was losing at NHL 94).

On this issue, children being exposed by parents to media is not a crime or a form of abuse.  It may be irresponsible or neglectful, but we cannot micro manage every aspect of parenting.

this is very true. when parents give their kids access to any kind of media and liberties they need to be responsible and aware of how they interact and react to it. my problem is most parents have no freaking clue what they are being permissive about and they dont spend the time to take notice of their kids becoming major douches

@ Bolded - as a parent, that's one of the reasons I joined this site.

While some parents are genuinely clueless, others are well aware and still just let their kids do whatever. I can see the reason behind that particular group of headteachers deciding to do that - and it's actually just one small group of schools doing it in one county only - it could be that they have local social issues that have affected their decision to do that. But I can't see it becoming country-wide.

EDIT - Actually, if I were a parent that wasn't as clued up as I am, and I got that warning letter, it might make me take a second look at what games my kids are playing. Probably not a bad thing that they've done it, but it'll be very difficult to enforce, I should imagine.