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[quote=Anonymous]OP, we had a similar situation awhile back at my SIL's with her 14yo playing a similar, extremely violent game in the family room on a humongous TV when DH and I were there with our 5yo (and 3yo.)  After breakfast, I hadn't seen my kid in a little while, and when I found him he was watching his older cousing play and was totally entranced.  When I realized what was going on, I was like, "Whoops!  That's not a game for you buddy.  Let's go play outside!"  He resisted at first, because of COURSE hanging with your 14yo cousin is way cooler than playing outside with your mom and 3yo sister.  I think DH said something to his sister, because the next time my nephew fired up the game system, she said, "pick something else becaues Aunt doesn't like her son to see this kind of game."  Nice, pass the buck on to me as the bad guy!  Newphew complied and started playing a snow-boarding game which he let DS play for a little bit.

My son WORSHIPS his older cousin, and wants nothing more than his attention, but cousin would rather play video games all day (granted, when we are there, he ususally on his school break, and I hope that he doesn't have unfettered access to video games all day when school is in session).  I usually pull nephew aside and talk to him like an adult, saying something like, "DS was really excited to see you!  If you took him outside and kicked the soccer ball with him, it would really make happy."  Nephew usually does, and then later when he wants to play his video game again, DH and I will just do something with the little kids.[/quote]

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