Anyone forbidding Minecraft for their 9 year old?
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Anonymous
That's the beauty of Minecraft. While your child is creating an abatoir, my child's a creature horder in the extreme. He collects all the animals and builds them elaborate living areas. Is hording really better than saving one's self from creepers? |
Anonymous
| I am always amazed by people this strict. Minecraft is fun, let them play and set limits. Isn't that what we are supposed to be teaching them? |
Anonymous
I don't know what you are talking about-- my son begged me to play Minecraft with him and I did and we built a mansion together. No one died. No creepers. Just lots of demo and then building. I though it was fun, but a tremendous time suck. After playing with him I totally could see how he could spend hours on it. |
Anonymous
Where? The only one I could find was outrageously expensive. |
Anonymous
In Minecraft you kill Chickens to get feathers and chicken to eat... if you don't cook the chicken first you get sick. Important life lesson there. You kill pigs for meat. You can use cows for milk or kill them for meat and leather. So tell me genius... where would we get beef, pork, of poultry if we didn't kill animals? My 9 year old loves the game but mostly for the Creative game style. I recently bought him a book about Redstone circuitry and he has learned a basic understanding of computing logic from it. http://smile.amazon.com/Minecraft-Redstone-Handbook-Official-Mojang/dp/054568515X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403791339&sr=8-1&keywords=minecraft+redstone If your 10 year old dwells on the violent aspects of the game maybe you need to be involved with your child's gameplay. I built a server for my son and I to play together so I could encourage the creative style of gameplay instead of making it purely about killing. For us the game became more about creating a virtual "Clubhouse" where the two of us and his friends could play and gather even when we couldn't get together in person. |
Anonymous
Yeah, the game you're looking for is called Minecraft. The creators ARE making a fortune because millions of kids see in it something you are apparently blind to. If your kid has made it into a killing outlet then you should pay attention to more serious issues in your home than finding an alternative game to Minecraft. |
Anonymous
I think your problem with minecraft might be kid specific. Anyone can take something innocent and make it evil. It is all in the approach. Too bad that is how your kid plays. My kids, their cousins and friends all play together on a server. They built a town, complete with a museum and childrens hospital. They assigned each other jobs like museum curator, city planner, chief of police, architects, interior designers, town geologist, farmer, etc. It was quite elaborate really and kept them busy for weeks. Yes, they killed some zombies but it was not any more gruesome or violent than Pacman or Asteroids was back in the day. Maybe work with your kid if all he wanted to do in Minecarft was the violent stuff. You will have this issue with all video games if you have that kind of kid. |
Anonymous
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Oh, and the kids I described below are mostly older elementary through middle school, with the youngest six years old and the oldest fourteen. They are boys and girls from all over the country.
Your kid's focus on minecraft for violence and killing is not typical. I woule be concerned...and not with minecraft but with how your kid approaches things.
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Anonymous
| Mine craft is a huge motivator for my kids to do their summer learning (multiplication, spelling, cursive, reading). They get 5 min. Mine craft for every week page they do. Today is the first day out of school and they wanted to do their "homework" before breakfast! It is addiction g, so we have a 40 min. Limit per kid. They only play in creative mode. |
Anonymous
| I meant "workbook page" not week page. |
Anonymous
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My 5 year old DS has been playing for several months. His older cousins play so of course he wants to play as well.
He plays in both creative and survival mode. When he first strated playing he would get upset if his house burned down but now he's really good and can build pretty quickly. |
Anonymous
Pacman and Asteroids did not involve killing or blood. Eating animals is part of life -- but it doesn't have to be part of video games for children. My son doesn't have an obsession with violence. I don't care for the sound of pigs squealing when they're being killed in the background, even if it's only occasional. I think it's sick, even once. That you find it a normal part of life for kids playing computer games is troubling. |
Anonymous
Don't they have to kill a certain number of animals to survive, even if they're only focused on building things? |
Anonymous
| OP, you want your kid to play in creative mode, not survival. No killing at all. |
Anonymous
| My kid built an apartment building and designed individualized units for all of our family members. Have no idea what "survival" mode even is . . . |