Ok here are some more ridiculous claims by the British on kids and games.
Seriously, stop blaming games, movies and cartoons for the things kids do. It all comes down to how you raise your kids meaning how well you are able to make the differentiate movies, games and cartoons from real life.
I remember myself playing in our elementary school's playground and acting out movies and cartoons but that did not turn me into a violent person today.
I don't quite understand exactly what it is that these people are trying to do here. I think its more about them getting the attention they are so desperately seeking from the media in order to portray themselves as better people.
This is what is going to happen if we don't allow our kids to be creative and act out what they see in movies. Potential future movie stars will get told that they can't act out what they saw in last nights big release of Trans Formers because it is too violent or inappropriate for children to watch and reenact, thus making them feel like they can not do what they want when they grow up.
Most of the kids who reenact movies have dreams of becoming actors, models, firemen, policemen and we should "never" tell kids that they should not reenact what they see in movies. Is it ok for us to make them do plays about civil war but not ok for them to reenact last night's Terminator 2060 movie?
We need to motivate our children and let their imaginations run wild. We need to build up their confidence from these early years in elementary schools and inspire them more by saying, "wow Billy and Johny, you guys did a great job reenacting that movie scene".
What are your thoughts about this?
In UK, educators' conference calls for legislation to stop kiddies pretending to be game characters.
April 3, 2012
by IGN Staff
A conference for schoolteachers in the UK has focused its ire on the issue of small children playing violent video games, and bringing these adult fantasies to school play-time.
Delegates at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conference discussed a motion calling for "stringent" legislation against the "negative effects some computer games are having on the very young."
One teacher of small children said her students "throw themselves out of the window of the play car in slow motion" play-acting the motion of "blood spurting from their bodies."
Alison Sherratt, a teacher at a primary (elementary) school in West Yorkshire, added, "We all expect to see rough and tumble, but I have seen little ones acting out quite graphic scenes in the playground and there is a lot more hitting, hurting and thumping in the classroom for no particular reason."
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She said there is a "notable correlation between the children who admit to playing games and those who come to school really tired."
The ATL's general secretary Mary Bousted called on parents to honor game ratings and TV watersheds. "It's about reminding parents and carers that they have a very real responsibility for their children and that schools can't do it alone."
Thanks to The Guardian.
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