Children as young as four re-enacting "violent computer games" - Association of Teachers and Lecture
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[quote]Children as young as four are accessing violent computer games and re-enacting them in the playground and the classroom, a teachers’ leader warned today.
“I have seen little ones acting out quite graphic scenes in the playground and there is a lot more hitting, hurting, thumping etcetera in the classroom,” said Alison Sherratt, vice-president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.
Tomorrow she will urge her union’s annual conference in Manchester to demand more training for teachers to cope with aggressive behaviour born out of watching video games.
“The inspiration for this motion was when I watched my class out on the playground throwing themselves out of the window of their play car in slow motion and acting out blood spurting from their bodies,” she added, singling out two in particular for their violent content – Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto.
Her comments were echoed by Schools Minister Nick Gibb, who said teachers had to cope with children coming to school exhausted after having spent the night playing computer games.
“Teachers face the burden of dealing with societal problems every day,” he added.
These included coping with the problems of children being raised in more fragmented families than 20 years ago and parents not setting proper boundaries for their children.
On quizzing the 27 four and five-year-olds in her reception class, Mrs Sherratt found most had TVs and laptops in their bedrooms and access to games consoles. “Many said they watched older brothers, sisters and cousins playing games,” she said.
[b]She said that research showed the games encouraged aggressive behaviour amongst teenagers, too. “Children said their parents rarely come and check what they are watching, so my four and five-year-olds are sharing with older siblings inappropriate aged material,” she added.[/b]
[b]“Most games involve first person role plays and/or competition against unseen players who could be from anywhere in the world encouraging players to identify with their characters or avatars and include taking part in horrific violent acts.
“So if teens find it difficult to separate fiction from fact of their virtual personalities how are my four and five year olds supposed to read and cope? Yeah, they believe the violence is real and recreate it in play.
“And how as a teacher do I respond when one of my five-year-olds tells me her brother has played a game and asked her to join in by stabbing a person in the back? We need guidance. It’s not the content of teacher training courses.”[/b]
Meanwhile, teachers called for the abolition of “Parent View”, a new website set up by Ofsted –the education standards watchdog – allowing parents, teachers and pupils rate their schools.
Robin Bevan from Essex, said there were no checks on the authenticity of callers. “You can rate any school in the country whether or not you have children there.”
The results of ratings, they argued, could be used to trigger inspections of schools.
Mr Gibb said he understood people had to register before they could log on to rate schools. However, delegates argued that only meant giving an email address which meant the identity need not be verfiable.[/quote]
[url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/children-as-young-as-four-reenacting-violent-computer-games-7615203.html[/url]
Completely and utterly cringe-worthily misinformed.
Don't count the times we played cowboys and Indianans or cops and robbers as kids, that was different
Parents certainly need to do more of that parenting that they used to be doing. Any medium can make a kid think something is normal while it isn't.
[quote]“Children said [u]their parents rarely come and check what they are watching[/u], so my four and five-year-olds are sharing with older siblings inappropriate aged material,” she added.[/quote]
There's your problem.
So what?
This has always happened, not only by video games
In the stone age, 5 year olds (I think they lived to around 25 back then, right?) watched and participated in hunting animals
(Ignore my lack of history knowledge)
Parents need to better control what their kids can and can't see, read, listen and play - not the government
My mum watches me play PC games a lot.
She likes to comment on how realisticly proportioned femShep is in ME2.
When I was a kid, we had toy guns and played war out on the playground. Noone cared. Why is this suddenly such a problem? Children know what they're doing is fake. They don't mean physical harm on eachother. It's a game, obviously. Just because war is ruthless and no fun in reality doesn't mean that the game that kids play is the same.
These days, I seriously believe that children are better at telling appart fact from fiction than adults.
Excessive (violent) gaming, lacking parenting, no socializing, and that kinda stuff can lead to troubled teenagers.
But kids as young as 4 playing "violent" games in the playground? Lmao, I remember 16 or so years ago when me and my peers also played these games where we pointed each other with our fingers, "PEW PEW, UR DEAD!!" and that's nothing to be concerned about. Especially not for good parents.
What about the kids who do even crazier shit and don't even own a TV?
I don't really think video games make kids violent I think that really comes from how their parent's and peers act. When I was little my dad let my play GTA 3 and Vicecity and now i'm for non-violence.
My 6 year old sisters don't even WANT to play GTA/halo/cod or watch violent movies/series. They're scared as shit by it or generally displeased when they see it. And even when they do want to, they stop after 10 minutes because their hands are too small to reach the buttons and they're shit at it. Kids don't want to do things they're shit at. They still kick, hit, bite each other and other people and play out violent scene's.
Hell, I didn't even own a console up until two years ago and I used to ram my play car into other people, pretending to crash and fall out when I was younger.
[QUOTE=dass;35411943]What about the kids who do even crazier shit and don't even own a TV?[/QUOTE]
They must've heard about call of duty at school.
[QUOTE=V12US;35411964]They must've heard about call of duty at school.[/QUOTE]
My 12 year old sister hardly knows what cod is, and she's seen me play it all the time. If you'd ask her what it was she'd say "some shooting game right?".
[QUOTE]I watched my class out on the playground throwing themselves out of the window of their play car in slow motion and acting out blood spurting from their bodies,”[/QUOTE]
That's it? I used to jump off things and twitch on the ground while people shot at me, and the most violent game I'd ever played was Commander Keen :v:
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;35411981]My 12 year old sister hardly knows what cod is, and she's seen me play it all the time. If you'd ask her what it was she'd say "some shooting game right?".[/QUOTE]
Oh shit, dawg. Oh fuck, oh no. Your 12 year old sister saw you play CoD? Oh god, oh fuck.
Better hide your dad's hunting rifle before she goes on a kill streak.
havent kids been doing this waay before video games were even invented?
But wtf so these kids
[QUOTE] throw themselves out of the window of their play car in slow motion and acting out blood spurting from their bodies – Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto.[/QUOTE]
Re-enact GTA and COD? While they are 4? I thought cod was 12+ or so and GTA is 16/18+.
What kind of parent buys 4 year olds 16+ games?
Back in my day (Oh god im barely 18, and yet this sounds best) we had freddy fish and pyjama sam, and that kind of games. It's called good parenting, people.
"Oh no I gave my kids violent games and now they are re-enacting it!" :wtc:
[QUOTE=Gareth;35412019]havent kids been doing this waay before video games were even invented?[/QUOTE]
Yes, this is just sensationalist BS. When I was like 5-7 I used to play in the garden with my friends and we'd pretend to be soldiers running around shooting people, and that was before any army based games were really available.
Anyway games are not to blame for kids doing this, their parents are for allowing them to be exposed to it.
[QUOTE=V12US;35411899]When I was a kid, we had toy guns and played war out on the playground. Noone cared. Why is this suddenly such a problem? Children know what they're doing is fake. They don't mean physical harm on eachother. It's a game, obviously. Just because war is ruthless and no fun in reality doesn't mean that the game that kids play is the same.
These days, I seriously believe that children are better at telling appart fact from fiction than adults.[/QUOTE]
Those who Favor security over freedom deserve neither
[QUOTE=eternalflamez;35412031]But wtf so these kids
Re-enact GTA and COD? While they are 4? I thought cod was 12+ or so and GTA is 16/18+.
What kind of parent buys 4 year olds 16+ games?
Back in my day (Oh god im barely 18, and yet this sounds best) we had freddy fish and pyjama sam, and that kind of games. It's called good parenting, people.
"Oh no I gave my kids violent games and now they are re-enacting it!" :wtc:[/QUOTE]
My sisters still play freddy fish and pyjama sam (okay mostly I play it while they watch but okay). :3:
I remember back when I was a kid we would beat the shit out of each other playing power-rangers or Teenage mutant Ninja turtles, the fights involving who was the red one in both games could get fairly heated haha.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;35412047]My sisters still play freddy fish and pyjama sam (okay mostly I play it while they watch but okay). :3:[/QUOTE]
And that's how its supposed to be (except it would be nice if she would be playing it).
I mean wouldn't it be weird if you just told her: Hey lil sis, this is a fun game called Call Of Duty. *Explain controls* Now go shoot some people.
Little kids can be the biggest monsters because few know their limits already, so they test how far they can go in competitions with each other. But real acts of violence only occurred when the kid in some way or shape had a broken home. I don't see friggin videogames changing that anytime soon.
[QUOTE=eternalflamez;35412080]And that's how its supposed to be (except it would be nice if she would be playing it).
I mean wouldn't it be weird if you just told her: Hey lil sis, this is a fun game called Call Of Duty. *Explain controls* Now go shoot some people.[/QUOTE]
I tried, they didn't want to.
i played battlefield and now im going to pilot a jet into my friends car ban video games i also play call of duty watch me strap c4 to an rc car and run it into someone
I personally think they're just looking for something to blame for kids acting stupid.
Godzilla brawl man
and i was all ways fucking mothra
Little kids are going to find somthing violet to re-enact
lets be happy its just guns and fighting what would have happen if they did saw or some japanese gore movie
Hey Jimmy i put a pencil in your eye and i will only take it out if you open your chest with the spoon you ate soup with and grab the key allowing me to remove it.
I played cops & robbers, pirates, military, insurgency war games etc with toy guns in the forest with my mates. Inspiration came primarily from TV news, movies and cartoons (no realistic war games existed back then). How the fuck is this any different?
When I was a little kid me and my friends used to play war for the sake of war, games were nothing to do with it.
I don't think the mothers know what an IMAGINATION is.
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