18 rated games and kids

[coffeejo]

Thread resurrection.

Am I a terrible parent who has point blank refused to buy GTA 5 for a 12 year old ?

FFS

 

[CopperCyclist]

Thread resurrection.

Am I a terrible parent who has point blank refused to buy GTA 5 for a 12 year old ?

FFS

Having been playing it non stop since it came out, laughing out loud at points - which I have never done at a computer game before - and generally absolutely loving it...

Nope, absolutely not. The humour, the content, and the language is in no way suitable for a 12 year old. Have you played /know the content? Some of it is so adult I hesitate to even type down what it is here on this forum!

 

[Cycling Dan]

If its Call of Duty and they want to go online with a headset then yes it is. Anyone who buys a kid the game in that situation should be hung by the genitals.

Harsh? Not if you have to listen to them.

Agreed and the entire gaming community agrees. No one likes squeakers.

 

[Doseone]

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Am I a terrible parent who has point blank refused to buy GTA 5 for a 12 year old ?

FFS

No. Well done.

 

[Saluki]

It's illegal to sell age-restricted items to someone below the age limit, and that includes knowing that the adult is buying it for the under-age child. It's not the shop that gets in trouble but the member of staff.

When I worked somewhere that sold DVDs and video games, it was quite an eye opener to discover just how abusive some parents are when you refuse to break the law and risk a massive fine and/or prison sentence just so that the little darling can play a video game.

I used to work in a pub and had similar abuse when I refused to serve beer to a woman's sons. They were only about 14 and were not having a meal (it wasn't that sort of pub). She half came over the counter at me and grabbed my by the hair. Happily it was the sort of pub where we had security. I cannot imagine what she would have been like in a video shop!

When working in a clients house, over the summer hols, I could hear her twin lads (aged about 10) playing an older version of that car stealing game - the one that's just had a new version come out - and they were yelling "Die M***** F***** Die" they were screaming the C word at the game and other general swear words. I was quite shocked. Their Mum just said that that's how they were when 'playing'. I am not convinced that the screaming and venom directed at such a game can be healthy but what would I know, I'm just and old bird who thinks that games where you have an avatar that rapes and murders is a bit horrible.

 

[MarkF]

Thread resurrection.

Am I a terrible parent who has point blank refused to buy GTA 5 for a 12 year old ?

FFS

Depends why you are refusing to buy it?

I was 13 before I got a leather football, I can only remember a spinning top and a toy dog (on wheels) prior........wished I'd had GTA5.

 

[TVC]

A woman at work is allowing her 7 year old son to play it. She deserves all she is going to get.

 

[fossyant]

Refusing as the content isn't suitable, going round bonking prozzies running them over, killing them etc plus the language. It's also hooked up to our main TV and it's not a type of game I would play.

He's been allowed the Halo series which is fine, but not anything like COD, again it's on the main TV and he has a younger sibling.

Some of the parents at our school are right bible bashers, I can only think they haven't checked out the content.

And as Copper Cyclist says, it's way to adult.

 

[fossyant]

A woman at work is allowing her 7 year old son to play it. She deserves all she is going to get.

Good god.

 

[fossyant]

I suppose, anyone playing this online will end up against a load of spotty kids ?

 

[Maz]

Refusing as the content isn't suitable, going round bonking prozzies running them over, killing them etc plus the language. It's also hooked up to our main TV and it's not a type of game I would play.

So who's playing it in your household?

 

[TVC]

Good god.

The kids father bought it for him, he has a history of stupid decisions.

 

[fossyant]

So who's playing it in your household?

Nobody.

 

[Puddles]

Thread resurrection.

Am I a terrible parent who has point blank refused to buy GTA 5 for a 12 year old ?

FFS

No, you are not a terrible parent for refusing to get anything for a 12 year old you deem inappropriate.

 

[MarkF]

My guess would be that you are much more likely to end up as a bit of an oddball if you are excluded from playing such games and thus mocked at school by your "friends" who are allowed to. Kids can be cruel and as much as you argue that well brought up kids won't tease another, the simple fact is, not in front of you they won't but out of your sight, I bet they would/do.

I thought about this and at football training last night I asked my kids who plays/played GTA. Out of thirteen 15/16 year olds, not one did. Far from wasting their lives sat in front of a screen 24/7 playing violent games, their game life seemed to be restricted to FIFA 13.