Cowboys and Indians
p2pnet.net News View:- Yesterday, we ran a story on an incident in the US when burglars were deterred from robbing a house by the sound track from a GTA game. We said, “The really alarming thing is that the children were watching it at all, and with the approval of their grandmother.
Here’s a Reader’s Write on the subject.
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I think that we of the ‘older’ generation should stop for a moment and remember how we used to love watching the coyote trying to ‘kill’ the roadrunner, only to be seriously hurt in a very cruel way. Did this make us grow up violent?
Toy ‘guns’ are pretty well frowned upon in this day and age, but I remember playing ‘cowboys and Indians’ and ‘cops and robbers’. The goal was to ‘kill’ the other guy. It didn’t make me, in my adult life, wish to posses a gun, for any reason.
I think this is because I was brought up properly. And if anyone back then was to say that my parents weren’t good parents, they’d be very far from the truth.
Violence is all around…from news reports (should we censor our kids from that, or try to help them come to terms?). Movies…sex and violence.
You can’t ‘censor’ your children. You can’t ‘not’ let them do/see/watch/play something because you think that it will somehow ‘distort’ their brains. Being a parent is a job, and that job is to guide them through this world, and to help them understand it.
By shielding them you are doing them more harm, in the longrun.
Kids will play the game, watch the movie, and read the news.
The real question is ‘do you want them to do that behind your back’?
If the answer is yes, then I’m sorry….
That’s the REAL scary part.
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See:-
alarming thing – GTA game scares off burglars, p2pnet, December 12, 2004
December 13th, 2004 at 11:10 pm
When I was younger I used toy weapons of all kinds..
We played war, i still to this day play violent video games, and was watching rated R by the time I was 8.
I grew up to be more than congenial. I buck authority, but am far from destructive. I’m a down right pacifist.
I do have a problem with the news though. When i was younger the carnage and war was always balanced by coverage of advancement, altruism, progress.
Today those latter three have been allbeit abset.
It’s important for people to ssee progress rather than simply decay.
Our news sources have failed.