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> You are also less likely to deal with someone raging while building legos, while having to deal with loud swearing teenage gamer is quite common. (Yes, in inv

• watwut 5y ago
  If you can keep control over your emotions and amount of playing, playing games is not an issue. The older you are, the bigger issue rage and lack of displayed self control is. The primary issue is impact of raging on everyone around - starting from siblings and moving to parents. No matter what actual activity, 5 years old raging is less of issue, both because a.) they are still just supposed to learn self control b.) they are 5 years old out of control still cant do much damage and is not scary except for younger sibling. Teenager not controlling emotions is more uncomfortable to be around. "Loud swearing teenager/adult" is someone you don't want to live with. Playing games is more likely to trigger them into such state. The gaming culture is more likely to validate such behavior and labeling it as cool or expected - while labeling those who object as overly controlling. So the end result is that instead of realizing "I acted like asshole I better control myself or play different game", they have no subjective reason to work on it.
  • kuu 5y ago
    So basically what I said: > And of course, don't pretend to put limits at 10 when they weren't earlier on.