Don't Blame The Games, Blame The Parent

jayintune writes "2old2play has an interesting article up on the recent push for more laws on videogame sales to children. It goes over the history of violent crime amongst teens and how it relates to the new surge in videogame-related legislation. Do laws really help our children or is it ultimately the parents role to decided?" From the article: "I'd say by the time a kid is three or four, he or she should know it's not okay to hit someone else. The child should be aware violence is not an acceptable response. Parents, grandparents, older siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, teachers... anyone older than a child should reinforce certain societal values and traits. Kids should and mostly do know better. I talked with a psychologist who told me children can separate reality from fiction at about nine or ten years of age. Well, "pre-teen" is what he said. At that age, they know what's on TV isn't real, what's in a video game isn't real. Video games are easier; they're basically just moving cartoons."

Comments

Re:Old cartoons

[hackwrench]

They've been placed on the Boomerang network.

The Google entry for that page says "Go to Boomerang.com for more information about our 24-hour network for classic cartoons!", but that's a completely unrelated site. It's also in the page's description tag, which is where Google gets it from. Anybody know what happened to that domain?

Life imitates a movie: Slap Shot

[MsGeek]

The hockey player striptease is the climactic scene in the classic movie Slap Shot.

Re:If you're going to say something, please be cle

[Anonymous Coward]

There are so many things wrong with this post and your "logic" that I wish I could reach over the internet and swat you with a rolled up newspaper.

Re:Where is the disconnect?

[kingsmedley]

You wouldn't be talking about This tripe, would you?

Wow, that's really over the top! There was some of this pressure, but it was only at church - where they were pretty much opposed to everything. What I'm talking about is the idea that D&D would somehow make us all become delusional and believe we were living the lives of our game characters, like the main character in Mazes And Monsters. It's loosely based on actual events. (Very loosely.) It's embarrassing to admit just how many people thought this was an accurate depiction of what happened to people when they played too many RPGs.