Just looking for opinions on buying either an x box or other gaming machine for young children.
I have read that some children have developed gaming addiction which results in them spending hours on these machines, night after night, full weekends, Christmas holidays to the exclusion of all other activities including mealtimes, conversations with family members, hobbies etc.
I have spoken to parents who won't buy them,That is probably more extreme than having no TV in todays world.
others who restrict access with strict time limitationsIf you are a rules based household this may work, but if you are like most people this will either go by the board or lead to endless fights.
and others who say well at least they know where their kids are and that they they know the passwords etc.This comment came up in our discussion on the xbox. The person who said it was a single mother who worked in the evenings. I felt very sorry for her situation, but I would not like to go down this road except through necessity.
My instinct is to avoid them at all costs in the first place.Are you happy that your kid is the only one of his friends who will not have an xbox. They have to grow up in their world not in yours. I am sure that your parents thought you watched too much TV, I know mine did. Did it do you any harm ?
My oldest is an adult now and looking back I can say that the time he spent on the xbox, while in a way wasted, did him no harm. We insisted that he go to football training, that he study etc. this was always part of the deal in getting an xbox and being allowed to use it.
Same applied to TV, Sweets, most toys etc.Simple solution - don't have them in the house.
Unlike education, clothing, food, love, support, dentist visits etc., - your children will not come to any harm without them.
Yep!Same applied to TV, Sweets, most toys etc.
Jasus, yez're hard on dem kids!Yep!
Not to be treated lightly! The dog can also eat them (not as dangerous as the dog eating the tiles from scrabble; my dog did that and the vet said her next crap could spell disaster!)The worst complaint I ever heard about Lego was how painful it is if you step on it with your bare feet.
Sure you could die from a fall then rollerskating!Never heard warnings about addiction to Roller Skates.
My son (then 3 years old) once cried because we didn't have any olives. That's the result of exposing him to nice food from a young age.I've never seen a child screaming and crying for strawberries in the supermarket.
Ye'd want to hear us playing monopoly.No concerns about exposure to inappropriate language or criminal behaviour when playing Monopoly (though there was that time the banker become suddenly rich....).
Yes, yes we do.In truth we make these rods for our own backs.
Brilliant!not as dangerous as the dog eating the tiles from scrabble; my dog did that and the vet said her next crap could spell disaster!
And there is the danger, lay people don't know enough to hold informed opinions in this specialised, medical area.In my opinion to call it an addiction is silly. Its not heroin.
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