The modern version of the playground fight is happening all across America in TV rooms and bedrooms harboring players of action/adventure games. Jimmy: (bluntly) “Oh, you jerk! Why’d you kill me! Now I’m going to go into the building and get more ammo!” (Now absorbed again into the game and away from any conscious understanding… Continue reading
If your tween has been allowed to play action-adventure video games for a few hours at a time on a regular basis, you may have noticed a little residual defensiveness oozing beyond the boundaries of that arena. As tweens begin to feel the insecurity of early adolescence, they are sensitive about receiving even subtle… Continue reading
Please keep it down! Kids (agreeably): OK, Mom. (noise continues) (You repeat) Keep it down! Are your children typically boisterous in the house? Expect the noisy trend to continue and grow when they play multi-player action/adventure video games. If they play this game genre now, and the above conversation is familiar to you, the pattern… Continue reading