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Article: Keep Things Real While Allowing Video Games
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 20, 2006
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Q.My daughter, nearly 8, has asked for a Nintendo DS for
Christmas because she played with a game at her friend's house and
has been talking about it ever since.
This particular game is about dogs -- a favorite subject of
hers -- and is highly rated but I'm afraid she'll get addicted to
it and lose interest in reading and playing with her friends and in
all the other things she now likes to do.
We try hard to limit the time our children spend watching TV and
playing on the computer, but a personal game system may make it
harder for us to set boundaries. And it will leave her little sister
out in the cold. Also, this game seems rather extravagant for a
child her age. But then, so was the ...