Parent Blames DS For Bad-Behaving Children

I've read all of the posts, I agree with SL "Oh. For fucks sake", and "Try not getting 1 toy for 4 kids"...

The fact the kids were arguing for the DS...I mean they ARE kids. You can teach them, but they only care when they grow up so...

Anyway, this mother did what my mother's been trying to do for years but I don't remember any fight over a game, at least not with my brothers. Just silly things like "revenge" when someone kills you in Smash, or when they destroy your perfect record with a 2nd place in Mario Kart .

PS: I wish anyone in my family do that colosal gift for me . Sadly they try to kill me so I wouldn't play .

You've clearly never played Fighting Force 2.

Nope, and something tells me I don't want to

Its just because the children had to share something. I used to hate sharing things with my brothers. In fact I still do. I fucking hate it when one of them has the TV remote, I wish they would die so that I could have it [/EVIL]

If she bought one bike for 4 kids, would she be blaming Schwinn for all the fights her kids would get in to? Maybe she should try to be teaching her children the virtues of patience and generosity, instead of trying to be Mom of the Year. She's just trying to please them without teaching them, and she's surprised they aren't figuring this all out on their own?

Heres a tip: don't fucking give in to your children.

I could have even known this wasn't going to work.

There have been studies done that say video games actually help with aggression, but mainly with males. And there are other studies that say video games do bridge a gap between certain kids, so the fitting in at school isn\'t to hard to believe.

But 1 DS 4 Kids nuff said(rather than 20 games she should\'ve got 4 DS\'s)

( Edited 06.05.2008 21:03 by J Tangle )

DS blames parents for bad-behaving children.

I can sig that right? *starred*

Awesome. (I agree BTW.)

( Edited 06.05.2008 22:09 by SuperLink )

if you have more than one kid then a ds is a stupid gift unless you buy them all one, i havent got a brother/sister that lives with me but when my nephews come over to my house its murder especially when they want to play my ds

the mother should have bought a console, probrably a wii if she could have got one and of not 4 ds\'s

( Edited 07.05.2008 14:23 by Das Dragon )

I agree with The Daily Mail.. isn't it the best paper evah!

Bad parent alert. Always teach kids to share and buy more than one DS!

ok its simple
1) go to gamestation or ebay pay about £30 for a mega drive or £40 for an xbox
2) buy as many multiplayer games as posible (mega drive less than £5 each) buy 2 controllers (or 4 with a multi tap ) and away u go

This is alot cheaper and of course ur kids are playing the great old classics which will always be loved.

failing this buy a ds for each child. After my sister complained about me having a game gear dad got her 1 and we were both happy. It also meant we had 2 of certain games sonic, columes etc, but we were both happy and we played together as well as with my dad.

It is because of games that myself and my dad have such a close relationship im at uni but as soon as i go home we always have at least 2 days playing games like monkey island etc.

Consols do have another claim to fame they promote hand eye co ordination as well as co operation (u no what i mean if u ever played sonic or bubble and squeak).

no matter what happens kids will augue. My sis always hated the fact that i had better stuff than her whether it was clothes games or stationary.

i bet mothers had the same types of problems when the game boy came out or the C64.

the problem is not the consols it not even the parents or kids it the world we live in. people say kids dont spend enough time outside well if we can even leave them at a park with out some1 causing troble what do they do, the only choice is home. And what can they do there?