Irresponsibility does my head

lol @ queue i love british people.

 

lol and we love you, too.

 

im not familiar with "does my head" but i think i like it and will test it out.

 

Hahah, actually it should say does my head in but I assume the last word has turned invisible

And it's an expression you use when something really annoys you.

 

lol thats explains it.

 

I was 10 when GTA 3 came out, and I was totally hooked, and I've been hooked on GTA ever since. I watched Pulp Fiction when I was around 6 for the first time, and many other 'unsuitable' movies.

People don't seem to realise that GTA is a game, and should be appreciated as such. Did I turn into a serial killer? No. I've never even got into a fight (something very hard for out here). I've never sniffed coke, shot up herion, and I'm still a virgin (another difficult feat for out here).

Sometimes living out the undoable in reality is fun in a virtual world. If the parent communicates with a child, then that child should not be influenced by a game. The kids that go around making violence etc are frustated, and in many cases all they need is the care and attention of a parental figure to guide them.

I'm not a psycho, I promise! Though I am a little odd... if anyone is to blame for that, I blame my father, the monty python crew and Douglas Adams.

 

personally i get annoyed when people make judgements about how i'm raising my children. i know my kids. you don't. you don't know the situations, the family life, the maturity of my children. yes, jump that checker kid's ass, but stay the hell out of the mom's business. we got enough judgment and fear coming our way without you throwing in some uppity opinion based on a total lack of knowledge about my family. parents can't even raise their own children anymore for fear of public opinion. i'm done with it. my daughter's are wonderful, loving, sweet and incredibly smart. if my methods disturb you, go raise your own kids and show me down the line how much better yours are.

 

KC (and every other parent who thinks it's nobody else's business) I won't judge you over how you raise your kids if you don't judge me for putting one of them in a box in 10 years should they try to jack me with an aluminum T-ball bat. I think that's more than fair. Deal?

I have no compassion for street hooligans nor the parents who failed them. This is not to say that your children WILL turn out like that, but living in the shadow of the cesspool that is Baltimore, I hear it everyday. "He was a good boy (with 3 felony convictions before he was 17) and he never hurt a single person (that you could name) and wouldn't steal a dime (but he was found in a stolen car with 90 vials of crack, an automatic weapon under the seat and a bullet in his brain)"

I think it's fucked that people complained so much about violence on TV that they took Roadrunner off the Saturday morning lineup but we still make videogames like GTA.

I know I'm an asshole but I'm alive and I intend to stay that way. And I want my roadrunner back.

 

Personally my children won't watch TV. Not that I won't let them, but because I don't have one. I think being outside is a much better experience. Like, going over to a friend's house and playing violent games and TV shows once they're about over 12-13 isn't really a bother, because my kids will be taught better values as children.

 

you pay attention to your kids. you know them. you know how capable they are of understanding things around them. a lot of parents dont pay as much attention to their kids as you and dave do. you two are fabulous parents (well, as far as i can tell from what ive read on here)... but the parents who dont pay attention to their kids or know them.... well, the inappropriate material for them is only a symptom of less than ideal parenting (like pavel (i think) said earlier, a lot of folks barely even have time to see their kids and media = babysitter for them)

 

This thread is stupid. Some children are smart enough at an early age to tell the difference between fantasy and real violence and many parents know this. Stay out of other people's business, those kids will quite likely turn out absolutely fine. Myself excluded, many of my childhood friends were watching pulp fiction by the age of 9. They're were lovely, non violent kids at the time, and still are as adults.

 

i'm alright with that. my kid does that I'LL put them in a cell. i'll turn them the fuck in myself. just keep your nose outta my fucking parenting. if i want advice, i'll ask for it.

 

sure. but do you really think that someone sticking their nose in and being uppity makes any difference? if you're really concerned, look at the kids NEAR YOU, with more information than "a mom is buying a video game" and deal with it fairly. there's no greater violation to me than getting between me and my kids.

i grew up with horror movies, hyper violent shows, and no parenting. i haven't hit anyone with a bat yet nor have i ever beaten anyone up. there's MORE TO IT than a video game. i really hate when people automatically assume that if a kid is playing a video game or seeing a movie that they have absent parents. that's what pissed me off about this whole stupid argument.

 

kc, I would be honored if I could just have a single hair or one drop of sweat that came from you...great post...

 

I agree. My parents got divorced when I was 4 and since then I lived with my mom and older siblings, there was never a "you cant watch this", "this is not for kids", nothing like that. I went to see the Schindler's List when it was released to the theaters, my mom sitting next to me. I was what? 7-8?
I saw Silence of The Lambs around the same age. I mention those because those were some one the ones that impressed me the most, the memories of others things are just of some bloody, sexual, disturbing scenes that I cant recall what movie are they from. There was always someone who could explain me what was going on, either my mom or my sister who is 10 years older than me. I think my mom is an awesome mom, I never felt like she was absent, on the contrary, maybe a little too there for me, but it was never in her best interest to paint a pretty unrealistic picture of life to me and if there's one thing I appreciate a lot of the way I was brought up is that she allowed to learn from the good, the bad and the ugly.
I cant talk about videogames, because that was never my thing, but I dont see how that is different.
It's true that some parents just let the tv and video games raise their kids, but a stranger CANT make the assumption that just because a mom is buying a game to their kid, she's a bad parent, because really, how do you know?

 

I don't give parenting advice and wouldn't to you because you're just badass in general.

 

i was taking it to a more general/broad view, than game-specific. i also dont really go for confronting parents on this shite, other than to mention the ratings on 18A or R movies/games at work when the person is with kids

 

There's an awful lot of people in this thread saying how they grew up watching horror movies and playing video games and how they turned out fine. Well, I didn't watch horror movies or play video games and I turned out just fine too. Doesn't really mean anything because everyone experiences things differently. Anyway..

I don't like to interfere with parents when it comes to raising children. However, I sure as hell will interfere if I see a parent doing something irresponsible that can potentially be damaging to the child. Am I supposed to keep my mouth shut if I see a parent buying booze for a 10 year old just because the parent thinks the kid is mature and wise enough to handle that? That's bullshit.

 

It is pretty obvious when the mother is shouting and swearing at me right in front of her little kids. That's not on, you don't behave like that when your kids are around.

And I deal with this type of stuff at work all the time. I'm tired of irresponsible parents, they cause too much damage.