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Originally Posted by SteveLightspeed
I'm taking a wild guess here, no kids right?
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Nope, but one on the way.
My point was that if kids aren't given the room to develop as they want, and aren't *supported* in whatever they do, then what? They do it anyways, and don't tell you! My dad had a great rule. If I told him the truth, and he found out from me first, I would never be in trouble. Regardless of "trouble", it made me feel like I could be open and talk about things like drugs, sex, and religion!
I think parenting is like the bumpers in the gutters in bowling. Until a certain point in maturity you have to maintain your bumpers, to guide them back into the lane. But at some point, you also have to remove the bumpers and start letting them fall on their faces a bit.
As per the last comment here too, "I wouldn't let my kids play them"...
I struggle with this one. To me that's like the parents who say "I would never let my kids eat that" but probably eat it themselves.. Makes me nuts, parents who go crazy about their kids diet, with a fifty pound gut tucked into their pants. I think a lot of that is "I'm going to make better decisions for you, to make myself feel better about the decisions I make, because you're the only one who'll be suffering" hehe.
I think someone mature enough to want to make video games, probably knows about violent video games, and knows it's a fantasy world. Maybe taking him to a gun range to demonstrate what a real gun feels like - and how powerful it is - would be a good lesson sometime soon? Obviously I have no idea your thoughts on guns etc, but even adults are often shocked at how powerful a handgun is.. It puts things into perspective I think.
I also suggest to read "Emile" by Jean Jacques Rousseau. A must read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile:_Or%2C_On_Education
"it addresses political and philosophical questions regarding the individual?s relationship to society, in particular how the individual can retain what Rousseau saw as his natural goodness while participating in an inevitably corrupt society."