Originally Posted By: Raw Kryptonite
Originally Posted By: Ssnake
...or playing D&D!


Oh yeah, that was a biggie back in the day. I'm glad my parents were above thinking that way.

I think COD is a little much for a 10 year old. Just my 2¢.
I let my son play at 11 and I wish I'd held off another year or so. The problem is you can't control what other parents allow, and kids will do things at other houses they can't at yours, unfortunately, when their friends can. There's a difference between that and giving the kid something the parent doesn't agree with though.
It isn't just about violence, but language too. Too young and they don't ignore things as well as if you let them mature a bit.
My son is 14 and I still have his 360 locked down to friends-only comms in games. There are some idiots out there and if I heard him mimicking some of those taunting kids (and adults!) he'd be offline in a heartbeat.


Just a quick addition, i used to play a bit of the original cod and my boy would have been 9 back then. I let him play it with me one night and later he had this monster of a nightmare. When he had calmed down and we were talking about it in bed at about 2 am he told me how all of the bad soldiers kept coming at him and were shooting him and he couldn't get up. No more games like that for a while needless to say biggrin We both still remember that night pretty clearly lol.

He is 17 now and plays GTA and black ops and the usual crop of games for that age and hasn't managed to beat up any old ladies on the street and does not think war is a 'fun' thing. He also listens to Megadeth and other like bands and is probably one of the nicest and most polite kids one could meet.

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