My sister's 6 year old plays M (mature) video games. There is shooting, and I saw the main guy throw another character over a bridge into the water on one game. All my nephew will talk about is zombies and guns. 6 years old is too young for this, what will become of him? What can I do to encourage her not to let him play them anymore?
2007-03-08 15:18:32 · 11 answers · asked by eddysmomma 4 in Games & Recreation ➔ Video & Online Games
Well, I sneak M rated games past my parents, and I have to say that it's TERRIBLE for a six year old to play m rated games. My suggestion is to find some games that they will enjoy that are appropiate for them. I would suggest going to gamerdad.com to find games that are suitable for 6 year olds
2007-03-08 15:31:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Encouraging won't take too much, if the child's mentality starts to change to more violent, she'll notice and hopefully act on it. I suppose the simplest thing to do would be to ensure that the kid seperates what happens in the game from real life and doesn't train himself to remove the person from the target. That may sound weird but generally the military uses similar psychological methods to ensure a soldier kills the "enemy". So they shape the targets like humans and sometimes clothe them. That way the soldier disassociates that he's killing a person ( which would lead to guilt and anxiety ) and instead he's killing a faceless enemy.
Children of that age are very impressionable so it is risky that he'll fall into this. As long as he's killing zombies though, should be ok. Keep the fantasy element in there to remind him it's not real. GTA and similar violent shooters are a bit more dangerous. Just my thoughts though.
2007-03-09 02:00:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better to encourage your nephew to something else. Maybe find him a funner game that is more age appropriate, and offer to play it with him.
Generally I beleive that if a child could be made violent from playing a video game, they had problems before hand. But, in this case, I agree, 6 is too young for "M" games.
2007-03-08 23:22:18 · answer #3 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a six year old nephew and he loves to play pc games it doesn't help that he's always helping me out at my internet cafe - we hunted and we found the answer - it's sooooo simple it will astound you and your ears will be abuzz with talk of it for months and months!
club penguin. yeap that's it. www.clubpenguin.com it's approximately $10 a month to play (or you can play for free but paid version is much better) is educational (believe it or not!) and most importantly, my nephew hasn't looked at a gun game in 4 months now. He's better behaved (clean your room or no penguin) and he gets rewarded with his account topped up every month for doing household chores.
hope this helps.
2007-03-08 23:34:07 · answer #4 · answered by Justin R 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
becareful or he will end up growing up to kill zombies in real life. I dont think video games dictate who we are in life...but then again, maybe the reason america is so fat is because we played pac-man as children and all pac-man did was eat eat eat. Hmmmm.
2007-03-08 23:28:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the time he grows up.. well remember the kids from the Columbine massacre?... they were playing rated m games....
2007-03-08 23:40:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've been playing M rated games since super nintendo if the parent buys it then it is fine. people kill people not video games
2007-03-08 23:27:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
just SHOW 'em Spyro. it's real lame but for little kids it'll work.
2007-03-09 07:27:04 · answer #8 · answered by Yuffie-chan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take him/her to see a psychologist
2007-03-09 00:11:40 · answer #9 · answered by Produh G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All I can say is that kid is one lucky little b*****d.
2007-03-09 00:10:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋