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Mickey (12) comes to me with the video game "True Crime". It's rated M17.
Mickey: Can I play this game?
MW: (reading description) Why is it rated M 17? (reads more) Oh, ok, mature sexual themes . . . Hmmm, ok, you can play it, but if you see a girl standing on a corner, do NOT let her in the car!
Mickey: Can I shoot her or run over her?
MW: Sure!
:para Donna Reed, I am not! :lmao
issac the dragon
11-17-2007, 07:43 PM
I heard that people are buying them for their kids Christmas gifts because kids don't chew on them.
Kurtz
11-17-2007, 07:57 PM
Oh, I've been known to chew on women standin' on a corner. :max
Saguaro
11-17-2007, 10:35 PM
:eek :slap
cassandra
11-17-2007, 10:52 PM
LOL MW, at least he didn't let her in the car :lol
If it's anything like Grand Theft Auto . . . the car bounces up and down when the hooker gets in - had a friend whose son asked "why is the car bouncing?" She quickly found the parent controls for that part of the game! :lmao
Turns out that he didn't play it very long, Runescape is more fun - especially now that he can pick on mom on there!
Sweet Tart
11-18-2007, 09:49 AM
:lmao :lmao :lmao
My boys can't play with yours :no
Oceanbreeze
11-18-2007, 09:54 AM
Mickey (12) comes to me with the video game "True Crime". It's rated M17.
Mickey: Can I play this game?
MW: (reading description) Why is it rated M 17? (reads more) Oh, ok, mature sexual themes . . . Hmmm, ok, you can play it, but if you see a girl standing on a corner, do NOT let her in the car!
Mickey: Can I shoot her or run over her?
MW: Sure!
:para Donna Reed, I am not! :lmao
That was just on Law and Order: SVU.
Do the boys play the violent games more than girls? Right now my 7th grade 12 year old daughter, plays Maple Story.
http://maplestory.nexon.net/?PART=/Downloads/GamePatches
crazierthanever
11-18-2007, 10:14 AM
Mickey (12) comes to me with the video game "True Crime". It's rated M17.
Mickey: Can I play this game?
MW: (reading description) Why is it rated M 17? (reads more) Oh, ok, mature sexual themes . . . Hmmm, ok, you can play it, but if you see a girl standing on a corner, do NOT let her in the car!
Mickey: Can I shoot her or run over her?
MW: Sure!
:para Donna Reed, I am not! :lmao
He's 12 so he can kill her but he can't fuck her. Alrighty then.
He's 12 so he can kill her but he can't fuck her. Alrighty then.
I gave birth to him, I make the rules for him, funny how parenting is like that. :mw
:lmao :lmao :lmao
My boys can't play with yours :no
I'm hoping that's b/c of distance, not personal. :kickcan
That was just on Law and Order: SVU.
Do the boys play the violent games more than girls? Right now my 7th grade 12 year old daughter, plays Maple Story.
http://maplestory.nexon.net/?PART=/Downloads/GamePatches
I don't have cable tv, so I haven't seen L&O for years.
Indigo plays some interesting games, Xena or Drakan - she rides around on a dragon and kills stuff.
I do monitor what they play - they may kill people or things, but it's not a blood and gore game.
Ironically, Mickey's interest in the game was shorter than this thread is! :lmao He seems to prefer the "fantasy" type games where you collect items, make armor, swords, now he's learning to bake bread in medieval times.
Sweet Tart
11-18-2007, 12:23 PM
I'm hoping that's b/c of distance, not personal. :kickcan
Oh, MW, I was kidding :lol
I love your boys, you know that :hug
Trueblue
11-18-2007, 12:48 PM
Mickey (12) comes to me with the video game "True Crime". It's rated M17.
Mickey: Can I play this game?
MW: (reading description) Why is it rated M 17? (reads more) Oh, ok, mature sexual themes . . . Hmmm, ok, you can play it, but if you see a girl standing on a corner, do NOT let her in the car!
Mickey: Can I shoot her or run over her?
MW: Sure!
:para Donna Reed, I am not! :lmao
:lol
We wouldn't let our older son listen to the RHCP when he was younger, or play certain video games. He came home and said that the youth minister's kids could play something he couldn't play-but on the other hand, they couldn't listen to anything but Christian rock.
It's a minefield, trying to be a modern parent, you constantly have to figure out a balance between letting your child participate in the culture and keeping them safe and reasonably innocent. :shrug
Kurtz
11-18-2007, 03:41 PM
:lol
We wouldn't let our older son listen to the RHCP when he was younger, or play certain video games. He came home and said that the youth minister's kids could play something he couldn't play-but on the other hand, they couldn't listen to anything but Christian rock.
It's a minefield, trying to be a modern parent, you constantly have to figure out a balance between letting your child participate in the culture and keeping them safe and reasonably innocent. :shrug
That's the damn truth!
It's a minefield, trying to be a modern parent, you constantly have to figure out a balance between letting your child participate in the culture and keeping them safe and reasonably innocent. :shrug
And what worked 10 years ago for one child, doesn't work now.
My oldest two didn't get cell phones until they were teens, Mickey got his at 12, and now I'm thinking that it might be a good idea for the 11 yo to have one. :yep
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