Should I Let My Kid Play Video Games? | Parenting Uncovered | #podcast #parenting #videogames

There's a lot of video games where it's just fun. Like, our kids love to play Roblox, where they come up with their own avatars. They can design characters, and those aren't violent. But there's a lot of games that are violent. And they said, you know, some of these are killing people or animals. The use and abuse of drugs and alcohol. Some even mimic criminal behavior, disrespect for authority and law, sexual exploitation and violence toward women, racial, sexual or gender stereotypes and even foul language and obscene gestures.

Celebrating in a virtual way something that is very unhealthy in a. In a literal way is always dangerous. It's one of the reasons why pornography's dangerous, because it just desensitizes us. Right? I mean, it does. And I'm not one of these people that, like, blames all society's woes on video games. I think they can be a lot of fun. You know, our kids like playing, and I grew up playing video games. But if we lose ourselves in a digital reality, it does have an impact. I mean, it does.