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one hour a day is plenty, kids these days do not know how to use their imaginations, its sad…..
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Turn them off. Steal the power cord to each game(except the computer)and hide them. Force those guys outside. Give the an hour and a half max for games like that.
I hate video games. Anything is too much
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all i know is that video games no matter what type can actually help people and kids have to make their own mistakes and learn to fix them themselves and that every time you play for two hours straight you have to take a half hour break
Lol no their actually quite skinny.
Yes I do see a lack in imagination. How do you expand it though? Can’t games do that with their vivid worlds and such? When the one brother wants to draw or make something on paint he comes to ME for ideas saying he doesn’t have any. Is it because I was the one who played with toys as an 8 year old? One’s 8 and one’s 10 by the way.
They have friends online though, I guess I could take them away for a bit…they’re gonna refuse though, I know it. Unless I find something for fun than Halo or Graal Online…how do I get them to take breaks? Without throwing a fit when I unplug everything and cause probably for my mom?
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Yeah biking could work. Oh and they don’t get along, in anything cooperative or in need of a leader, not even a multiplayer game. The 8 year old actually took out a game and broke it cause he got so mad the one time cause he was losing. Of course he paid for a new one with his own allowance…yes they get allowance for chores such as taking out the recycle, bathroom trash, cleaning their room, little things we tell them to do, etc.
My opinion is probably the same as your 2 little brothers’. Ive never liked sports, my dad wasnt around, and i love talking and chatting online (i play world of warcraft) because for me, its a life away from life. Like, i would rather play with friends online than interact with my family. I judt dont get along with them, i swear i must have been swapped at birth with another baby lol.
Now im not saying your brothers’ dont like you lol..really im not! but there might be a reason they turn to games…
But then again i alwasy try and get out and about with actual friends..in person.
I do think its personal preferance..i would chose the PC over …action man..lol :P
Yet i can see where your coming from, and i should think that something needs to be done.
In that sense i probably havent been much help.com
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you could take one evening a week for free fun, thats where you all do things that are free and fun, like walking in the woods, going to a park, telling stories, bike riding, collecting insects, coloring, singing contests, talent shows…..playing cards makeing a collagge, hide and seek, the list goes on and on ,use your imagination, help them learn how to entertain themselves without all the tech…..
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Yeah they get out whenever they can, I think…Andre, the 10 year old, always chooses PC over outdoors. If my mom would go to New York or soemthing, Justin (the 8 year old) would go with because he likes the long car ride out of the house. So he’s more of an action man but is gradually getting out of it by playing the games.
When friends do ask for them to play outside, they do go. Without parents around, they really have no one else but online friends to talk to…I’m only 15 so I have problems of my own and such and it’s hard to solve theirs as well.
goofygir I’ll try that. Like hacky sack could be a cool skill to know when they go to school. I tried making videos with Andre but he thought it was boring. Justin likes creativity though…video games they play is fun every minute with new things happening everywhere since it’s online. It’s hard to find something in life that can compete with that. I’m sure if I had Live as a child I’d play that all the time too. Like when my older sister got a new computer back in 2000, I went on to play monster truck madness and chips adventure. Off topic again…
I was planning to buy those laser guns like the ones at Laser Quest so we could bring the games to reality. Have a Gears of War match around the house ya know? Sounds fun and action packed! Lol like I said it’s hard to act like a dad at 15.
**** I just realized how much I type…I guess some people don’t talk enough and some people talk a lot lol sorry.
I just want to mention how we even have Guitar Hero 2 and 3, which is actually movement and can improve hand skill, but they don’t play it of course. They used to want Rock Band for the drums, which is fast arm movement, until they found Gears of War and Call of Duty 4…
How old are you? Can you offer to take them out, I have an 8 year old cousin who loves his video games but every couple of months I take him Ice Skating or to the zoo or something and he loves it,
if you truly think that ur siblings seriously might be hurting themselves by video games [mentally], than ur best option is to go cold turkey….hide the power cord, or the games, or threaten to sell off your 360 unless they go outside….do cold turkey for a week, i guarntee u wont see results in that week, but if u want them to have a balanced life…you’re going to have to try, force them if u must
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I’d say 4 hours a day was a maximum, and when i say that i don’t mean every day of the week i mean only one or two days of the week, the other days a limit of 1 or 2 hours a day…
and now i’m gonna sound really harsh and not nice to people but i really dislike people who complain about kids playing video games, i mean what did you do for fun when you were kids? Technology is advancing at an exponential rate and the youths of today need to keep up with it much more then adults as it is they that are the future of this planet. basically if kids didnt spend a few hours a week usuing computers theyd have to be taught it all in school anyway… and if you actually knew the ins and outs of video games you;d know it was more than just sitting on a sofa staring at a screen, becuase it isnt. Theres much more knowlege involved in these things than most people think. And yea i agree there are other things to do most of the time but by spending you life complaining at kids and restricting them from computer games is just a waste of time…
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you should try to get them into rowing. seriously! it actually can do wonders.
oB1canoB yeah I agree with you there. My dad gave me his laptop because he couldn’t use it. Video games of today really are amazing, but this is what lures kids in. Why live life when the world in a video game is always fun and for only 60 bucks? It’s like games are MADE to keep kids of today occupied. Does anything good come out of games though? Are there more good things about playing than there are bad?
One hour is like, 15 minutes to them…time goes by way faster playing a video game. A great time waster.
I don’t know of any rivers to go rowing around here…
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2 hours per day on a workdays and whole day on weekends sounds more than enough for any leisure activities…
except for soul calibur 4… then it shall be played for no less than 12 hrs per day on any given day.
I’ve played video games for about 8 hours straight. I say give him a choice. He can either have two hours video games, or two hours computer, Or 1 hour each. (That’s what my mom did to me.) But I just ended up using the computer more.
I don’t know…they say games are just what they like. They have no friends where we live, but they have friends online. There’s nothing to do outside, but there’s plenty to do online. Get how they look at it? I told them they couldn’t go on until 4 when we woke up at 8 one time and they sat around doing nothing, literally. They were squirmy and groaning like “this is soooo boring…” and they started watching tv. It seems they can’t live without technology or something…
They’re gamers I guess, I can’t change their personality can I?
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plus, look at the bright side, at least they arent in theater.
What do you mean by that? Do you mean movies, or acting?
I am 15 and have xbox live. I think that once you start getting into the habit of playing for hours on end you can’t stop. I hang out with friends, play sports and play piano, but whenever I have time at home I can never find anything to do, and I get drawn into playing more video games.
I think that they are probably just going to be always bored unless they are getting entertained or stimulated in some way that they actually find fun. One last thing if you want them to not play so much is to not take away the cords or have them play only two hours, but gradually take away time and replace it with some other interests they might have.
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