Cartaphilus":ohf981a7 said:
A stinking Video game...........the curse and down fall of American children and there celebrating it :suspect:
I actually would blame the fall on parents... If they decided to spend time parenting rather than letting a video game system babysit the kids, I think it would make a world of change. Game systems aren't the problem. In moderation, they are a good way to de-stress for some people, adults included. The problem comes when the parents allow their children to sit in front of the game for hours.
I like the way my parents did it. We had tickets. Each ticket was worth 15 minutes of video game time. We had a weekly chore chart, different chores for each day, if we did all of our chores on their properly assigned days, at the end of the week we would get 4 tickets (1 hour worth of playing time) and our allowance which was anywhere from $2 to $10 depending on our age. Occasionally there would be extra chores that come up and we could do them for extra tickets. When we wanted to play the video game, we would have to have all of our chores and homework done (which was serious because we were homeschoooled LOL) before we could play. We would have to designate how long we wanted to play by telling my mom and then put the tickets into a jar that was on top of the tv.
It was great for my mom because we would LOOK for extra stuff to do around the house, it taught us the value of work, the value of time, and in a sense the value of money (tickets were like money). Just like a paycheck, you could blow the tickets as you get them, one at a time, or you could save them up and wait until your friends come over and be able to play with them. I gotta hand it to my parents, they had a great system worked out.
I know you weren't being hardcore or overly harsh, and sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give my parents some credit for doing a good job in an age where it's a hard thing to do. And I think far too many parents aren't even trying.
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