Comments on: Parents all thumbs when it comes to gaming controls http://www.igea.net/2009/12/parents-all-thumbs-when-it-comes-to-gaming-controls/ Interactive Games and Entertainment Association Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:02:59 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Owen http://www.igea.net/2009/12/parents-all-thumbs-when-it-comes-to-gaming-controls/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Owen Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:02:13 +0000 http://www.igea.net/?p=1412#comment-62 Ignorance is no excuse! RTFM! (or for those not aquainted with internet lingo, Read The F***ing Manual) It is seriously not hard at all to spend ten minutes reading the manual for your new console. ESPECIALLY when consoles these days are capable of accessing the internet and other places that children should not have unsupervised access to. Parents have nobody to blame but themselves. If you don't undertand the technology, get your kids to show you how to use it! Ignorance is no excuse! RTFM! (or for those not aquainted with internet lingo, Read The F***ing Manual)

It is seriously not hard at all to spend ten minutes reading the manual for your new console. ESPECIALLY when consoles these days are capable of accessing the internet and other places that children should not have unsupervised access to. Parents have nobody to blame but themselves.

If you don’t undertand the technology, get your kids to show you how to use it!

]]> By: Chad http://www.igea.net/2009/12/parents-all-thumbs-when-it-comes-to-gaming-controls/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Chad Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:14:40 +0000 http://www.igea.net/?p=1412#comment-59 Now if only they would introduce that R18+ classification rating. So that mature games that are clearly intended only for adults don't get placed in the MA15+ basket for kids to play. Now if only they would introduce that R18+ classification rating. So that mature games that are clearly intended only for adults don’t get placed in the MA15+ basket for kids to play.

]]> By: Tony http://www.igea.net/2009/12/parents-all-thumbs-when-it-comes-to-gaming-controls/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Tony Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:57:39 +0000 http://www.igea.net/?p=1412#comment-57 See? Even though the Parental Controls are not perfect, they are a useful way for parents to have some sort of control over their kids Videogame play. Every parent is busy and I feel that society makes them busy with longer working hours and the demand of earning money to support their families. If we lived in a society where it was ok for one parent to work and the other to stay at home and look after the kids (males can do the looking after of kids as well as females too) or maybe a shared working environment, these problems would never need to have existed. Sadly the world is not that ideal and it can be hard for parents, with parental controls just like with Classification ratings, they are useful ways for parents to know if the game is ok for their kids without taking a long time to play a game they don't know how to play. See? Even though the Parental Controls are not perfect, they are a useful way for parents to have some sort of control over their kids Videogame play.

Every parent is busy and I feel that society makes them busy with longer working hours and the demand of earning money to support their families.

If we lived in a society where it was ok for one parent to work and the other to stay at home and look after the kids (males can do the looking after of kids as well as females too) or maybe a shared working environment, these problems would never need to have existed.

Sadly the world is not that ideal and it can be hard for parents, with parental controls just like with Classification ratings, they are useful ways for parents to know if the game is ok for their kids without taking a long time to play a game they don’t know how to play.

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