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<blockquote data-quote="ducky8888" data-source="post: 603253" data-attributes="member: 15714"><p>Most of my experience comes from dealing with my easy child, but i also have a bit of limited experience with my Girlfriend's difficult child. </p><p></p><p>With my son, I allowed him to play, very monitored, some games with guns. He became obsessed with guns, listing names, how many rounds they hold, rate of fire, etc. This disturbed me, so I removed the violent video games, and I, being a "gamer" even committed to not playing the violent video games when the kids were awake/around. We were able to replace the games with racing, and we ended up finding a love for the "Lego" branded games. i.e. lego star wars, lego harry potter, lego indiana jones, etc. While these do contain some violence, for example, in star wars you use guns and "the force" to blast your way through the death star and tatooine (yes I am a nerd), the "killing" of the characters reduces them to lego blocks. </p><p></p><p>When I moved in with my girlfriend, they had no gaming systems, but our difficult child had experience playing Call of Duty and Halo at friends' houses. When I brought my PS3s into the house it was a huge struggle that he was not allowed to play these games. I keep all content password protected, so it cannot be turned on without entering a pin. We also struggle with him sneaking inappropriate movies. This is harder to control because his father has no sense of appropriate/inappropriate movies for children. He allows his 5 year old watch R rated movies (violent like Expendables, obscene like Paul, sexual like Magic Mike) so when the children come home and are told by us that theymay not watch anything pg-13 or above, they always say "but dad lets us... we have seen it 100 times..." to which we respond "well, we dont allow that in our home". The other issue with us, was that this excuse worked for their mother, if they had seen it before, then she let them watch it, and she never pre-screened movies. </p><p></p><p>I definitely have seen the effects of violence in my easy child, and this led me to really pay more attention to the material all of the children are exposed to. I pay close attention to ratings. In games, I have only allowed games that do not involve realistic violence or shooting other beings. Definitely no blood (red, green, blue, doesnt matter) or slo-mo effects I do allow the children to play games like Cabela's (hunting) but this is closely monitored with guidance about proper gun usage and safety, although the game does a pretty good job, for example, you can only shoot animals for which you have a permit or you have to restart the level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ducky8888, post: 603253, member: 15714"] Most of my experience comes from dealing with my easy child, but i also have a bit of limited experience with my Girlfriend's difficult child. With my son, I allowed him to play, very monitored, some games with guns. He became obsessed with guns, listing names, how many rounds they hold, rate of fire, etc. This disturbed me, so I removed the violent video games, and I, being a "gamer" even committed to not playing the violent video games when the kids were awake/around. We were able to replace the games with racing, and we ended up finding a love for the "Lego" branded games. i.e. lego star wars, lego harry potter, lego indiana jones, etc. While these do contain some violence, for example, in star wars you use guns and "the force" to blast your way through the death star and tatooine (yes I am a nerd), the "killing" of the characters reduces them to lego blocks. When I moved in with my girlfriend, they had no gaming systems, but our difficult child had experience playing Call of Duty and Halo at friends' houses. When I brought my PS3s into the house it was a huge struggle that he was not allowed to play these games. I keep all content password protected, so it cannot be turned on without entering a pin. We also struggle with him sneaking inappropriate movies. This is harder to control because his father has no sense of appropriate/inappropriate movies for children. He allows his 5 year old watch R rated movies (violent like Expendables, obscene like Paul, sexual like Magic Mike) so when the children come home and are told by us that theymay not watch anything pg-13 or above, they always say "but dad lets us... we have seen it 100 times..." to which we respond "well, we dont allow that in our home". The other issue with us, was that this excuse worked for their mother, if they had seen it before, then she let them watch it, and she never pre-screened movies. I definitely have seen the effects of violence in my easy child, and this led me to really pay more attention to the material all of the children are exposed to. I pay close attention to ratings. In games, I have only allowed games that do not involve realistic violence or shooting other beings. Definitely no blood (red, green, blue, doesnt matter) or slo-mo effects I do allow the children to play games like Cabela's (hunting) but this is closely monitored with guidance about proper gun usage and safety, although the game does a pretty good job, for example, you can only shoot animals for which you have a permit or you have to restart the level. [/QUOTE]
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