Posted on 03/19/2018 11:20:01 AM PDT by Drew68
Edited on 03/19/2018 1:22:23 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
And the early term ‘Embry-Joe’. (With a nod to the Simpsons)
David Hogg blame Trump yet?
La’trina...
There was a similar case in Oakland a few years ago, but the kids were 14 and 17. And both parents themselves.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oakland-sister-shot-20140130-story.html
“I expect the difference between playing a shooter “game” and actually shooting someone was nil.”
Maybe things have changed, but we watched The Three Stooges and somehow knew you couldn’t really do that stuff to somebody. I have a feeling this kid was acting by example.
No need to read further.
In the 'hood, it's not uncommon for grandma to be under 30.
Oops. 21
Black lives matter? Only in certain circumstances.
Okay, how long before I’m told it’s my fault, and I have to give up my civil rights so this never happens again?
We watched a few minutes of The Stooges and went out to play. Or saw them at the Saturday matinee for a few minutes.
Some kids play these games hours per day. It’s a whole different world. We didn’t allow any video games in our house when the kids were growing up (youngest now 27). We relented for our youngest when he was 17 or so and he did buy an x-box with money he earned. He sold it a few months later because it was so boring. It WAS boring compared to hockey, football, baseball, lacrosse, etc.
Evidently you and I are in a minority. I know it's easy to say because I've never been married and don't have kids but if I did have them, there would be no video games in the house. As far as smart phones, none until their senior year year of high school. I would maintain a land line in the house for their phone calls.
I grew up in northern Michigan and during the summer months my parents only concern with me was that I was home for lunch then back in time for supper. I had no problem riding my bicycle 8 miles to go play with a friend who lived on the other side of the lake or go fishing with my cousin.
Computer video games and smart phones in the hands of children are nothing but pacifiers........
That fake news trick was GLARINGLY obvious as was the cluelessness of how he got the gun.
“The victim, Dijonae White”.....
Evidently “BLM” didn’t matter in this incident. Sympathies for the family.
Kids today don't talk on phones. They post on social media. The ostracization they'd face would do more harm than good. I knew kids such as the ones you'd raise (if you had kids, which you don't). They were the worst of the bunch!
Computer video games and smart phones in the hands of children are nothing but pacifiers........
Bulls**t. The problem here isn't video games and smart phones, and you're subscribing to a liberal mindset of "blame everything but the obvious" if you believe this.
The problem is a culture that encourages dependency and criminality, instant gratification, zero impulse control and a total inability to perceive consequences. The mom has six kids. How many baby daddies? How many criminal convictions does live-in boyfriend have? Where did he get the gun (he'll never say).
My children play video games as do their friends. I'm not worried in the slightest that they will kill each other fighting over a controller. It's called "parenting" and doesn't require banning my kids from the devices of modern life and installing land-line phones in the home.
Right link, wrong title. Here is proper link and title.
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Here's a theory....we live in an everybody wins, everybody gets a trophy world. These kids experience that every day. NOW, when a situation arises that they're unfamiliar with, they don't know how to react.
How are kids supposed to learn to overcome failure, defeat, etc.....if they're never allowed to fail?
The video in post 36 illustrates everything you said in that post.
Before I start, how old are they?
Grand theft semi-auto.
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