MSE Parents Club Part 8

feelinggood_2

I remember when we joined the video/game rental shop, I was 11. Mum told them I was 18 so I could rent what I wanted!

Right, I'm off to bed because I've got to get up early tomorrow and go and meet people I'm terrified, but excited

cazscoob

hhheeeelllppp! is there anything that stops you feeling sick? i have felt really sick all day as i didnt manage to have anything to eat until 3pm (we were so busy?) and since then i have just felt crap? i have tried eating but it just doesnt feel like its sitting right

i also let lewis play older games and i dont see a problem with it, he is mature for his age and he also has been on a beat and shooting with his grandad. I do agree every child is different and really its the parents/step parents decision

redmel1621

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Oh - well as I said, I think I am a bit out of touch on these things.

Do you not worry about him playing things that are so old? It is a 15 isn't it? Even if you don't take much notice of the ratings that it 6 years older then DS1 and 8 years older than DS2.

Feel free to tell me to b00ger off, I am just interested (and paranoid that I am now a freak LOL)

Yes I do worry sometimes, but I think everything in moderation....To be honest they do sometimes come out with things about shooting/killing etc and I have to reign them in and remind them it is a game and must not in any circumstances be taken out of context. I also explain that if they can't tell the difference I can easily put a ban on such games... I go through all the bad points about violence etc, but I agree with em, they see much worse even just on the news!
They love the games and as long as they understand that it is just a game then I am ok with it.

All their friends in school play it and similar games, some even play 18 rated games, which I 'try' to keep away from our two...although admittedly they have played fallout3 which is an 18.

I don't think you are a freak, I think you are careful in what you let your children watch/play. I do allow mine an extra 'freedom' but believe me I do keep an eye on how these things might be affecting them.

Mel x

searching_me

NMS im trying to get xmas shopping out the way ... duckling here they have to be 6 months min i wanna take jayden but have to wait ..

night feelie x

r.mac_2

MFD - re: age requirements/limits/guidance. growing up I was never allowed to watch films that were for an age older than I was - when I was 17, my mum wouldn't let me take out Frankenstein from the video shop. Regardless of the fact that i had been at university for a year (away from home and doing as I pleased!) or that I had read the book! It was a bit of a pain at the time (I remember being upset that I wasn't able to see the bodyguard in the cinema as I was 13 and it was rated 15) but now I am pleased they were like that. We all grow up so fast - especially these days that it seems a shame to rush things along.

It is personal choice though, and this is just my personal view - I am not criticising those who do/think differently from me. The one thing I would say is that my parents were consistent - i think that was the key.

My_Fathers_Daughter

LOL - in a matter of a couple of pages I have gone from the terrible slack mummy who feeds her baby takeaway pizza to the victorian step-mum who won't let her step-son do anything :rotfl::rotfl:

Like everything in this minefield of parenting it is a horses for courses scenario.

DSS doesn't hear swearing (we don't and his mums family don't) and lives in a tiny village in the country. For all of his school years prior to this one he has had 8 people in his class and maximum 40 in the whole school - most of whom I know and his mum definitely knows the family of every kid in the school!!

I will rethink on the 12 stuff - which he does have already, but only on consoles where we can keep an eye on him whilst he plays it...just not on handheld. But 15 or anything above is going to be a no-go for a very long time....one thing that we are all agreed on, thank-god.


LOL - I'm officially a prude!!

emlou2009

in a complete contrast, my auntie has 3 kids, 17,16 and 8, and 17 and 16yo she will happily sit around swearing with, but if 8yo lets a swear word slip she goes off on one like its the end of the world, now that i dont agree with cos he is only doing what he thinks is right and normal! the area they live in has a lot to do with it though i think

tarajayne

Well DS1 stayed at his friends last night and had completed the new Call of Duty by 1am, nothing beats him. He's now in discussions with the careers advisor about being a games designer!

newmoneysaver_2

Searching are you not xmas shopped out yet?:p

There is no min age here for duckilings but the woman said the first 40 mins is structured play. I think it lasts an hour, but Liam has only ever done 20-30 mins the pool.

tiamai_d

MFD, please don't take this the wrong way...

but as Benjamin grows up you will probably find that your views on certificates changes and you will see them as more a guideline rather than an absolute. I always said DS1 wouldn't play this and that but now after seeing that he knows the difference between reality and a game or film, and seeing what he sees in real life etc, I have relaxed my views a little. You grow as a parent alongside your child, it's pretty cool really