Posted on May 31, 2023
Worried about your kids' video gaming? Explore their online worlds yourself
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/31/ [login to see] /video-games-kids-good-limits
"I grew up in the 1980s and 90s, with parents who strictly controlled my "screen time," which almost exclusively meant TV back then, as well as a pocket game that died when I was 10 and was never replaced. Like many in my generation, I absorbed a general sense that video games, like TV, were frivolous brain rot.
Now, my two boys, ages 12 and 13, are growing up in a digital world in a way I did not. Their generation lives online – spending more hours in virtual spaces since the pandemic began.
I'm lucky: My sons are hardworking and kind to their chronically frazzled single mother. They make raising them as easy and joyful as adolescence could possibly allow.
But still, our house rules about video games are arbitrary and our disputes over them constant. No amount of yelling "No games on school nights!" or "Not before dinner!" has worked, or inspired them to learn a new skill instead".
"I grew up in the 1980s and 90s, with parents who strictly controlled my "screen time," which almost exclusively meant TV back then, as well as a pocket game that died when I was 10 and was never replaced. Like many in my generation, I absorbed a general sense that video games, like TV, were frivolous brain rot.
Now, my two boys, ages 12 and 13, are growing up in a digital world in a way I did not. Their generation lives online – spending more hours in virtual spaces since the pandemic began.
I'm lucky: My sons are hardworking and kind to their chronically frazzled single mother. They make raising them as easy and joyful as adolescence could possibly allow.
But still, our house rules about video games are arbitrary and our disputes over them constant. No amount of yelling "No games on school nights!" or "Not before dinner!" has worked, or inspired them to learn a new skill instead".
Worried about your kids' video gaming? Explore their online worlds yourself
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Video Games
Children
Learning
Psychology
Parenting
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Online games are fun but risky with similarity to social media. Players may have real or fake profile. They may be there for digital fun...or nefarious exploitation.
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If you are female on line you can expect to be stalked,harrassment and hear some rather inappropriate language. You cannot expect Xbox or the companies like Electronic Arts to do anything about it. I have my own group of stalkers who stalk me and harrass me from the moment I enter the game. If any of you have daughters or granddaughters playing on line they are getting sexually harrassed in the games yet no one will do anything about it.
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SSG Dennis R. - It was Fun Hanging Out on the Streets in College Hill, Cincinnati, OH!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - I rode a bicycle or hitchhiked all over Western NY ... and further. Nobody tried to molest me or steal my guitar.
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