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The first game I played was Doom2 back when I was 5 or 6 and it didn't effect me in any negative way so I'm not sure how seeing some abnormally bulky human hit a wolf with his not-so-sharp sword on the head and loot copper can be such a danger to a child. And to the guy talking about taking the child to a therapist if it "goes too far", slow down there, sparky.
Kids grow up and out of things all the time. What a child needs most of all is discipline, and I'm not talking about silence at the dinner table, spankings, etc. I'm talking about not giving in, being firm and consistent with rules.
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I would suggest as old school the time your child spents doing worthless things in wow to spent it with his parents reading a book, playing all together indoors or outdoors,
lets start here, Its not quite worthless, also not all the time they have as free time should be for wow. They can in the same day, have like 1 chapter of a big book, or one small book read to them, taking ~20 min around tops, then they can play wow for say 20 min.
wow's enviroment is not the best place for a child to grow his immagination, sociallity and skills same goes for every game in console(and those that refer 0+ or 3+)
Umm WHAT? immagination, hmm lets see, sure its not as good as pretending with trucks or dolls, but some people grow out of pretend really fast, like me. Sociallity? Well, if they are to young to read they okay, but when they start reading a big new world opens up. If you can find a trustworthy guild, then they can do just fine with sociallity.
i am not saying that videogames creates "antisocial monsters" but until the age of 13-14 better avoid them,since their critique abillity hasnt grown enough(and they just memorize thinks),there is no need to put them in a more complex digitalized world.
Okay, umm complex eh? At age 2 all they need is the mouse and space bar..you call that complex? 5 okay add a few spells, 7 now they are happy to try to level with all the spells on lvl 3 mobs at lvl 23. Its not like the kids have to raid.
oh and 13-14? Right! yah b/c then they are SOOOOO not kids anymore! /scarisim (or how ever its spelled!). *sigh* okay done.
sorry for wall of text, and demonicfrost, your spelling is bad, and is your space bar broken? Come on I can do better than that, how old are you, 7?
You beat me to it.. coulda done without the flame at the end though. (and really, you should only flame on grammar if yours is perfect.)
Video games when
not overly used
or
overly violent
are incredible conducive to a child's growth. A book being read to them only requires brain power to follow along in the story. If they read it themselves, more brain power. If you put that same child in a video game environment (without channels on and in a forest away from bandits if they are too young for that sort of violence) it can create an amazing influx of new sensations. That child that was now using their brain in a slight fashion, is now controlling a mouse and keyboard that requires problem solving and hand eye coordination.
I grew up with video games, from the age of 5. I had an even distribution of playing outside, playing sports, reading and video games. I firmly believe it was the video games that made me better for the time. Nothing else required me to sync my eyes and hands as specifically as them. I can juggle, do bartending tricks, (i don't drink but I enjoy using my hands for complex motions) type at 85 wpm and sew (don't flame please, my girl thinks it's hot) faster then my mother ever could. I honestly think all these skills stemmed from my use of video games. Just my 2 copper.
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My five year old daughter likes to play WoW. She plays my Belf holy paladin. She doesn't do much more then run around killing mobs in shalazar, dragonblight etc. I have two abilities key-bound to the mouse scroll (holyshock and a JL) so she can just scroll back and forth killing stuff. She also likes to fly around the tree tops too.
So here are my two questions.
1) Is this weird/unhealthy for her to do.
2) Does anyone else have a child or know of a child that plays WoW (other then alliance players-jk =) !).
I'm not too concerned with her playing. But if someone knows of potential downfalls from her playing, please let me know. Also, any good stories of their child playing and doing some crazy stuff would be cool too.
PS. I don't know how, but my daughter died from an ally hunter. Really pissed her off. She wasn't PvPed will she was a corpse and when I got back to the body, wasn't pvped then either. I never turn on the PvP either when she plays. I looked at the combat log to see if she attacked him first but there was no damage from her to him.
I have 2 kids (8 and 5) and there is no way I would let them play this game at this kid of age.
The Terms of Service I believe has a 13 year old minimum? Seriously, a five year old on this is just plain ridiculous. Get her playing something age-appropriate, my kids have a Wii and they play kids games, including spelling and math games.
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My 8 year old son plays, he has a lvl 34 mage. I don't allow him to ask people besides me for anything nor reply to random whispers he receives and I have him in my guild, so that I know what hes saying if I am not on or watching him. I only let him play every few days to tone down the chance of being addicted and its only a reward if he has done all of this chores and what I asked him to do that day.
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If he starts getting addicted, you need to stop it now before he turns into the fat guy living in the basement.
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Wikipedia
Not sure if anyone has said this in the thread, but regarding him asking the question:
"It's better to ask and seem stupid, than to remain both silent and stupid"
Chinese saying if I recall.
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If he starts getting addicted, you need to stop it now before he turns into the fat guy living in the basement.
You can be addicted and not be fat nor living in your parent's house basement :P
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