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[quote=Anonymous]DS is 8. He plays video games like Minecraft and Lego Starwars.  Gaming is his favorite activity but he happily plays sports and goes outside etc. I’ve said no to Roblox until he turns 11 bc 1) I think his personality is prone to getting addicted 2) I don’t want to deal with requests for Robux 3) the internet says I should become more informed about the game and supervise and play with him, and I don’t have time or energy to do that and 4) anecdotally I’ve heard people say they wish their kids didn’t play/didn’t allow it til later.

DS has exposure to the game bc several of his cousins have it, so a few times a year he plays on their iPads.  This weekend he played with his cousins, mostly watching them and sometimes they let him.  This evening though, my son had full control of the iPad bc his cousin left it behind. So DS didn’t have to share and had free rein for about 2 hours.

I kept giving him countdowns “10 min, 5 min etc” and when I asked him to put it away for bedtime he had tears in his eyes and said “I’ll kill you if you never let me have Roblox”. I told him that wasn’t t a kind thing to say to me, and he kind of fell apart into a crying heap, saying he wasn’t a nice kid. And then lots more crying -he said he is going to miss his cousins, miss grandma, miss Roblox- basically a tired and overstimulated post-Easter with travel meltdown.

Anyway do I need to address the death threat? It makes me hate Roblox and confirms my reasons for delaying it even more.  [/quote]

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