...lots of stuff that i didnt say.....
im sure you would be shocked to know that actually no, i dont watch my kids EVERY second of their time on the computer, but i do have the room set up in such a way that i can see what they are doing, should i so choose. what that means is, i can keep an eye on them. does it mean i stand over them, hovering, like a hawk, just waiting for them to screw up? lol, no.
nor am i always in the computer room when they are. i never said anywhere that parents have to watch what their kids are doing 100% of the time, or else they are bad parents. there is a medium between those two black and white extremes.
what i did say is:
- i keep an eye on my kids and what they are doing. please note, this is not equivalent to hovering.
- i do control their computers ( they are EIGHT and TEN, we arent talking teenagers here) but i make sure to explain to them why.
- if a parent doesnt keep an eye on what the kids are doing (please note, i dont mean hovering over them every second, but i do mean at least checking in on them) they they most likely dont care what their kids do online. (also note that i dont personally do this, but i never said the people who do are bad parents)
all i said was, if you are watching your kids (again, please note that this does not mean hovering) and if you take time to explain the rules to kids, and why they are there, and if you exercise your ability to use parental controls, you can allow your kids time in the online gaming world as safely as you possibly can.
isnt a little freedom in gaming time exactly what you say they need? i really dont get why you are pushing so hard to try to make me out to be a terrible shitty weird helicopter parent, when i am doing my best to create for my kids an environment where they have some freedoms, including online gaming, but understand why they dont have them all.
you made a bunch of jumps in logic and personal attacks against me to try to paint me in a pretty shitty light, just to make a point, which im not sure why.
edited to add: i think of lot of you are young men who game who dont have kids and therefore dont realize that there
actually are a lot of games that do not have the same gamer douche bags types that i encounter regularly when i game...