The other day I was down the dog with my oldest son and had the following conversation. He says:
- "Dad, that in the Call Of Duty MW2 is a sawed-off shotgun is the best weapon of all charges and ill-will to the beast? "It is a missile that it is called Predator control from a computer and a camera and you load tanks? "To charge you with the sniper the bad guys away from a two shots and about one?"
- "Predator, son, is called Predator, with 't'. But ... How do you know that? " - I said.
- "Is my friend so and so, in my class at school, has the game and play every day, "
-" Well, will you have your father and your friend has seen his father play " - I replied. It is logical, I also I have that game.
- "No Daddy. His parents are divorced. The playing is my friend so and so with the Xbox 360 in his mother's house " - I said the boy.
- "And their parents are real sons of bitches" - I thought. I did not tell, of course, but what I thought.
My son is 8 years old. His friend so and so, their class, also has 8 years. Play at home with his mother to a violent video game is not recommended for children under 16, which has been banned in Germany, and has had a tremendous controversy throughout the world by overloading aggressive / emotional of a particular mission, which aims is involved in the killing of dozens of civilians in an airport. Without going into this controversy, all we played the game and conflicting mission, we have stoned. It is much harder than what we read.
But the mother of so and so has better things to do than to know what the hell plays his son when he has to have him home. Total, when plugged the console is not bothersome. What makes a terrorist, kill, killed dozens of tourists and have fun with it. Learn about the different characteristics of modern military weapons and to use Predator missiles, assault rifles, etc. And by the way, what the fuck, that is the most popular comic cole counting how distance kills with a sniper rifle.
And Father, total, as has already been divorced and left the console at his ex-wife, for fuck cares.
Menudos bastards. Today, anyone would stop having children.
Talking with my son, I reminded him that he knows the game, Modern Warfare 2 . I have it, and my children have seen. Nuances: they have seen .
At home there is nothing taboo. The console games are all mixed on the same shelf, those of children, mine and Lips (which we consider 'the game of Mom' :-). Within reach of all but the dog.
Children are free to look at the boxes and ask what they want, and, depending on the game, looking at me anytime. A war-like games Modern Warfare 2, Operation Flashpoint and company can take a look and nothing else.
The biggest ever played Halo , Me, sound very low, and only to missions where there are no flood (scary). Occasionally someone tells me that Halo is just as aggressive a Call Of Duty , both are First person shooters. Then I begin to explain the difference between action and violence and aggression. I explain that in Halo no blood, no pain, no cries of pain. I explain that the context is science fiction is Star Wars type, very difficult to reflect in the real world. I do see that 99% of the toys that we consider acceptable 40 years ago are stuffed with weapons and accessories. The problem is not in action, but in how they present.
On the other hand, when children are around, try not to play these games. If I caught war playing one or more violent than normal, I stop and take this opportunity to explain something. For example, not long ago was making a special mission in the Modern Warfare 2 and children appeared.
- "Dad, can you look? Anda, porfa, porfa, porfa, porfa! "
removed the special mission, I loaded one of secrecy in the snow, and played with them. We try not to kill anyone (some got away ;-). I explained different tactics of stealth, and how he had to use radar to detect enemies to sneak monitoring routes. We had to carry a dog, but presented it as a failure: the dogs are not bad, and charges not cool anything. At 10 minutes, I sent to her room to play because "enough is enough for today, you know that this game is not for children"
Do you see what I'm getting? Never have to defend that children within a bubble. Violent video games should not be taboo. No need to hide. The bad things in the world we must use as one element of education of children.
If you take the bad things in the world and hide the children, you are NOT educated. You're avoiding educate.
If you take the bad things in the world, and give total freedom to your child to play with them as he pleases, without getting involved, you son of a bitch.
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I leave a troubled mission in perfect Castilian. If you have not seen, you should stay the course and sound ...
My question is, will have played so and so to this mission?
