Parent Blames DS For Bad-Behaving Children

nope, its due to sibling rivalry, you know how it is, if one person plays it, they all want to play it at the same time.
DRAW UP A TIMETABLE!

Oh. For fucks sake.

This kind of thing really rubs me the wrong way. Such ignorance...

1) Her children obviously aren't very old. Therefore Brain Training is a bad idea, it's aimed at adults after all...

2) Children fight over ANYTHING. Consoles? The type is regardless. Any kid a certain age will fight over something unless they have one each... and even then they'll find a way to fight.

3) I bet this woman has never even heard of the SEGA MegaDrive. The console that me and my brother waged an epic war over in ancient times. The console that got us banned from videogaming for 2-3 years. Why does she think it's exclusive to the DS? She's simply pushing the blame where it can get her the most money...

4) Why are they taking a story from a single mother from the whole of Britain? She acts as if she's made some amazing discovery and everyone else on the planet is in the dark...

Hey waitaminute.... OSHI--.

It's clearly sibling rivalry that she can't cope with/control.

And she bought it from Hong Kong with a 20 games bundle? Sounds legit.

Thank God for messiahs like Jack Thompson, who are fighting their hardest to ban this sick filth.

Amen to that (I can't believe I live on this planet... )

BTW, thanks to video games my brother and I are best friends. I guess that woman was too selfish, ignorant and impatient to see it through. gg :3

Although from the soundsof things they would have been brought up as casual gamers anyway...

Born and bred on Sonic games I was.

20 games as a gift some one rich wish she was my mum lol

ps 20 game take a long time to do XD i know i be busy playing them too

( Edited 05.05.2008 12:09 by Jump_button )

Hm, I was gaming since I was 5 years old...but my little brother has never been into gaming. Though I do have some good memories of playing co-op on Alien Storm on Mega Drive with him when I was about 8/9 and he was 6/7. I don't remember us ever arguing over games...lots of other stuff, yeah, but not games.

Well, these kids sound a) Rather spoilt and b) Completely normal. As others have posted before me, it's just sibling rivalry; kids will fight over ANYTHING. Our old Christmas home movies prove it.

No you don't

Instead of getting 20 games she could have gotten another DS.

"And she bought it from Hong Kong with a 20 games bundle? Sounds legit."

Yeah, exactly.
She is hardly setting a good example by showing their children that hard work is worth nothing, because piracy is ok!

Neither her, her children, or the Daily Mail probably have any idea the DS was a pirated machine.

What can you do about that?

EDIT: Ooooh I hope Nintendo reply to this <3

( Edited 05.05.2008 12:37 by SuperLink )

I can only agree with that. If you teach your children not to fight when another has something they don't or if you simply teach them the value of things (by not buying them anything they want) then i think they won't fight over anything.

I can tell cuz' i've been raised that way, and saw my cousins and mates back in the day fighting over a Game Boy while I was keeping my cool. I ended being the one allowed to play with the Game Boy cause i remained calm while the others were arguing . Thanks to my parents for that :lol !



Yup ! It's not only over video games, it could be over the last Action man, (or Barbie if it's girls), or whatever... she's just blaming video games because it's something i bet she doesn't even know about too much.

Clearly the Daily Mail is the biggest pile of wank of a newspaper running at the moment.

When I saw this article on the front page of C3 today, I thought exactly the same thing as SuperLink:

"Oh. For fucks sake."

I agree with the mother, DS is baddddddd. You would want your childern to be playing GTA IV anyway.

Perhaps she should have set more firmer rules, or get them something else (e.g. a home console or at least a second DS) so they can all play nicely. Stricter rules and better judgment would be a better approach.

E.g. only able to play after rehearsing their instrument, doing their homework etc.

Blame the parents I say.

I agree with the parent.

To echo what (several) others have said, I have two young children (aged 3 1/2 and 2) and they fight over who gets to push a toy wheelbarrow around the garden or who plays with which dinosaur!
Of course, I almost didn't bother reading further when I saw the words "The Daily Mail"...

When I was much younger, I attacked my brother for turning off LoZ: LttP because he was mad that I'd been playing so long. Fast forward to yesterday when he was at my house for an hour + playing Mario Kart Wii.

Video games are obviously the work of the devil.

depriving your children of entertainment and allowing them to have short bursts sorta would make them annoyed.
I blame the Mother.

TBH coursework/revision has made me far more severely depressed and angry than games ever have. I think that should be more of a concern to parants TBH.

( Edited 05.05.2008 14:54 by SuperLink )

This lady has no idea what she is talking about. The DS isn't addicting at all. Man this makes me so mad that I need to go play some Advance Wars. BRB.

Actually, I am , i think addicted to DS. Although I only play on my commute to work, I just feel like I need to play 2 times a day for 40 minutes or else something is missing. Currently I am playing: Band BrothersDS(guitar hero-like game imported), RBI BASEBALL DS(Imported called famista DS), and have recently been done with Advance Wars DoR, Tetris, Jump Ultimate Stars, Zelda, Metroid, and the number 1 addcitive game thus far for me, Mario VS DK 2 because of the level editor and wifi sharing abilities.. ahah anyone else list off their most addictive games?

( Edited 05.05.2008 17:57 by mushroomer )

Pitiful Woman. If she can't control her kids over a simple matter of a Games Console, she shouldn't be a parent. Simple.

Bollocks. Absolute bollocks. I advise the parent, GET THE KIDS DS LITES WHEN THEY ARE OLDER FOR FUCKS SAKE!

Hey douche, try not getting 1 toy for 4 kids.

That wasnt a problem, just a dumb ass calling her self a parent.

And what about the millions (obv no exaggeration) of parents that don't have problems with games.

Probably because they weren't stupid and handled the situation.

There can be no doubt that videogames are addictive for children.

20 games 1 ds 4 children? Games take a reasonably long time to finish and you, much like a film, want to finish them. This isn't strange and if parents are too stupid to understand this or too bad at parenting to manage the task then it is not the fault of their children ffs or the games.

Just because there is paranoia about games they see games as different to every other toy in order to explain away their bad parenting. It's like they won't believe it's their fault. Sorry love, games are just like any other toy. There is no secret conspiracy. You're just a bad parent.

It's like parents, failing to see the point in videogames, are completely unwilling to even entertain the idea there is a point and understand how the desire to play videogames could reaqsonably affect their children. Just like anything else.

A home console with 4 controllers? done. 4 ds with 1 game each? If too expensive then GBAs for the younger ones? If you bought a stupid package for your kids it's your fault. Not only with 20 games does it make it more likely the kids will get hooked on something it will be more games to be hooked on and more games to finish, 4 times, on one console.

If she was clever she could use to make them better at sharing. Ah but their uncontrollable right? Really? You're a lot bigger than them you know. You could just lock them in their room when they fight. If they really wanted to play they'd learn to share.

I'm lost for words to describe how pathetic that is. Thats about as pathetic as claiming you can't go outside because of the sun. Yeah sure you MIGHT get burnt a little bit. But the fact you won't leave the house is not the suns fault but your own specific weakness. Uncontrollable, pish posh.

And since when did she have the authority to debunk an academic study? In the paper with the biggest readership in the country no less. Some old bint talking shit is the oracle of unrefutable truth. Or perhaps the actual study would have been more fair. You're not going to publish that?

To be honest, what exactly can this do? Nintendo aren't going to stop making DS' because of one article. DS' aren't going to stop selling like hot-cakes. It's only to create media attention and get fans riled up. It's a completely pointless waste of time.