Nobody requires training to be bad. That comes naturally.
We spend time training kids from the time they can learn/understand, to be GOOD. Because we see they REQUIRE the training to be GOOD. What comes easy and natural is being bad.
The video games come into play because it’s conditioning the BAD part of people, to desensitize them and for some it crosses over into real living.
But what really kills us is the training to be GOOD is either ignored by parents to do, insufficient, or never was reinforced. And the lack of Christian faith in the house and such, makes it that much worse.
If you aren’t trainging to BE GOOD, and reinforcing it, and they’re only getting ‘training’ that reinforces BAD, there’s nothing they’re learning to put the video game or negative stuff into proper perspective and context. ie a Christian can explain that violence may be necessary in self-defense but not as a way to terrorize others or to be used trivially.
Exactly. Behavioral training in self restraint and good manners is found in few homes these days and many are completely clueless what its value was to society in the first place. All that "repression" has been replaced with "authenticity" and self esteem.
I recommend these books by Munro Leaf as gifts to parents of young children.
http://www.amazon.com/Munro-Leaf/e/B000AQ3R7M/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Scroll down past Ferdinand the Bull.