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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I do wonder how parents allow them in the home in the first place. It's not like an 8 to 14 year old kid can afford these things and two, should be allowed to buy one if they somehow earned enough money to have one (it's YOUR house). I know credentialed rich parents allow them, too, but it seems these systems are far more prominent in low and middle income homes. Especially single parent homes. It just seems way too dangerous to risk.[/quote]

Plenty of Gen X parents grew up with video games even if it was just Atari and its successors.  DH already had three systems when our kids came along (we were in our mid-20s)  and had no reason to think of them as "dangerous" - I wonder if it's the older parents who are really uptight about them?  We usually only bought the kids new games for Christmas and they would generally be finished by the end of winter break. The rest of the year, they might play casual games with their friends once in a while.

My ADHD kid was interested in online gaming between maybe 7th and 9th grade but then he got involved in other things.  He had no interest in taking a gaming system with him to college.  The ADHD kids I know who stayed in their rooms playing video games had other issues that led them to drop out (usually untreated depression).  My daughter's roommate simply slept through her first year of college before dropping out - no video games required! [/quote]

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