My cousins of like 5 and 11 play WoW. Both my aunt and uncle also play WoW and let them play when they're allowed to. Never heard any problems.
My cousins of like 5 and 11 play WoW. Both my aunt and uncle also play WoW and let them play when they're allowed to. Never heard any problems.
My friend got glad at 14. Age and skill/maturity aren't necessarily linked.
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any other questions are irrelevant
BUT honestly fun stuff aside no reason not too wow is a fun time killer
Depends really, realistically speaking he might get too attached to it and not know boundaries, being a kid and all. It's your choice and I'm sure you know more than me but I'd think about it.
put your fucking strawman up, the point was 'disabling chat' is a stupid suggestion. it's suggesting that you shelter him from the world his peers have created, a world he's already been part of and it's suggesting he's too fucking stupid to turn it on.
it's what shitty parents do. my point was, nothing he sees in trade is going to be shocking, there is no reason whatsoever to block it and it's just lazy parenting. good parent tries to figure out a way to teach their kid to not add to the cesspool that is wow trade or even the internet.
i wasn't saying to get your kid drunk, i was saying that your suggestion was idiotic
The moral stance you have on the subject you already decided by allowing the kid to play with you, even when Blizzard/ESRB doesn't rate the game for players that young.
So why do you need strangers advice on a moral decision?
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Maybe in your world and this day and age.
In my day, if a parent saw a kid post half the things said in tradechat today, their hide would be tanned. What a kid did after 18 years-old and out of the home was up to them, but at home and underaged, the rules of home applied...and society even expected it. Kid screams in your yard and the neighbor comes over asking to pipe it down, the parent didn't stand there arguing over kids rights, he would take junior in and lecture him about appropriate behavior.
That's called community policing.
From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."
Yes, it depends very much from person to person how much influence something can have on them. But on the music point, I was just making reference because music was and still is that one thing that lets you escape reality from time to time, just enter your own world and be happy. And also, metal/rock/punk is not hardcore. They have their hardcore sub-genres but in them selves they are not hardcore. For example - K.I.S.S.'s "Rock and roll all night" is an awesome song which is in no way hardcore or suggestive in a bad way. It's mostly people's generalization that metal/punk/rock is "bad", "satanic", "suggestive" and similar crap. But it's really not. I actually passed a history pop quiz because of Iron Maiden's song "Alexander the great"....
Edit: Also! Gotta add that some of the most famous ballads in the world are from rock n roll bands
(Gotta state that I'm a huge metal fan but I still enjoy other kinds of music and I love discussing how different stuff affects the development of certain persons character and while doing so I try not to push my point of view into people's faces. But honestly, in my country, I've never heard that a biker or a rocker killed someone or did something bad to end up in the newspapers. We just enjoy and want to be left enjoying our music. Most of us are actually very nice persons )
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You shouldn't view playing wow as any different to him going along and joining a local "pee wee" baseball league, or a football team, or any other activity in which you can participate alongside him. I played hockey for 12 years from the age of 13 alongside players up to 70. I've been in a team where children played with their dads (and even grandfathers on occasion!) and as with any sport that has adult participants... it's not always been healthy to listen to!
The same should be seen in wow - it's an activity you can do together, and he will become exposed to the wrong kinds of things just as he would in a sporting event or the boy scouts. People calling you a bad parent for letting him play at 13 are misguided at best and moronic at worst. The game will not "corrupt" your son any more or less than other activities involving people or nature, but there is an elevated risk due to the anonymity of online play (which you will counter with parental controls!)
All in all I hope he appreciates the present, and that he doesn't get to the point he's too good to play with you and cringes when you try to raid together!
Neither.
But I was raised in a family and locale that is stricter than San Francisco, that's for sure -- http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...san-francisco/ -- even by lose standards in this day and age, that's a tad extreme even for San Franciscans.
From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."
I would honestly give him his own account. If you two can play together it's a great idea.
Back when is was around 12 or 13, I showed my dad WoW and he really liked it. He ended up getting his own account and actually progressed further that I did at first. It may sound cheesy, but I think it really strengthened our father-son bond. After playing 5 almost 6 years together we still really enjoy it.
I'm not sure what my relationship with my dad would be if we weren't able to spend time together and play WoW and I'm really happy to have had the chance to play with him. Most of my friends that I played WoW with back than thought my dad was badass for playing video games with me so that was a plus too.
I wouldn't do it, speaking as a parent also.
I have a twin of 12 and they watch me play also and sometimes they enjoy riding and flying on my mounts; they have a lot of fun doing that.
But buying them an account? I would say no.
Not because of chat... but more because I think, personally, 13 is too young to engage in an MMO.
It is quite intensive and demands quite some time to be put in.
At 13, my personal believe is that kids aren't able yet to have good time management and aren't good at prioritizing things.
It could be that they will put in too much time into wow, at expense of other important things, like school for example.
Now, I know not all children are alike and probably you are one of the two best persons to decide wether wow is a good thing for your kids or not.
You know what it brought you and maybe, maybe, what it prevented in your live. You know your kids better than anybody on this forum, so pls discuss this with your spouce and take into consideration what consequenses wow had for you.
When it comes to kids: preventing is better than correcting.
Im a gamer and my 6 month old son will grow up to be one too!, you should check out his mad skills on my keyboard....well when i say skills i mean being fixated on the neon lights while bashing it and dribbling all over the keys....its a start in fact i even do that myself still while getting over excited with certain games