I'll have to admit, I let my two boys play First Person Shooters:
Warrock,
Call of Duty, and
Wolf Team. Some parents may think of me as too lenient at best, but after my personal experience in playing such games in my childhood, I'll have to say that since it didn't make me and my friends into killing machines then it won't make my kids act the same way too.
Let's be honest here, I would rather have my kid go one on one with another kid/adult/bot online rather than in the real world. Why? Because in the real world, real people get hit, hurt, maimed, or killed. In the online world, everyone knows it's all simulated--everything's fake. Please don't look down at kids and say they can't separate fact from fiction--they're more intelligent than you think (sometimes even more!).
I was inspired to write this after reading the post and viewing the videos about this topic from
Amy Tucker of
B5Media.
