Space Jawa said:
Archemetis said:
What an age we live in now where gaming can take over for that petty annoyance that some of us considered 'Parenting'.
You say that like this is a new development. The whole "Parents can't parent their own kids! We have to do it for them!" and "We can't parent our own kids! Someone do it for us!" thing has been on the rise for some time now, if I'm not mistaken.
I was comfortably aware of how little 'teaching and parenting' parents actually have to do nowadays, what with educational toys, TV shows that teach Spanish or sign-language.
Hell that's just leaving it in the present, in my day (The late 80's - early 90's) I learnt everything about basic morality from cartoons, I learned to read and write better by playing story-heavy video-games and everything I know about
anything now days comes from what I read whilst sitting in front of a computer monitor...
But this is just a very sad look at where this kind of development is going to end up.
Kids and teens can't learn lessons like this from playing a video-game with scripted events, with only so many outcomes and variables. This will cripple a person if they take the lessons to heart and more than likely. Some people will.
People need parenting at an impressionable age, not educational games that will likely be ill-equipped to handle the matter.