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I agree that it is refreshing.  I roll my eyes at all these wimpy, scaredy-cat kids running around.  I'm glad we didn't go there with DD.  There's nothing cute about it.[/quote]

Sounds like you'll be very proud and smug when your DD is playing Call of Duty at 7 years old and thinks nothing of killing . . . not like those wimpy kids you detest, right?

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I'm the poster the poster you quoted agreed with, not the poster you quoted. But... Call of Duty is a video game, saying that someone who plays a game doesn't mind killing -- with the implication being that you mean doing so in the real world to real people -- makes no sense. By that same token, is a 7 year old who plays the board game "Life" fine with becoming pregnant at a young age since in the game players end up with kids? Does playing "Monopoly" desensitize kids to going to jail and make it more likely they will do that since players in the game end up in jail? Do most kids who watch cartoons duplicate things like walking off cliffs or blowing stuff up? Of course not, because those things are ridiculous, right? Your video game example uses the exact same logic.

I wouldn't be "proud or smug" if my DD enjoyed that game, but I certainly wouldn't be disturbed as it seems you would. If her enjoyment of it stemmed from a fascination with military service or the idea of dealing with the "bad guys" I would probably encourage her interest in the military by providing real information, exploration of successful military ops both historical and more modern, trips to related interesting places, etc. Detailed discussion of what is publicly known about the bin Laden raid would be offered as something she might find nearly as interesting as the success against fictional adversaries in the game.

It's not as though such a game would be my DD's first exposure to the concepts of death, or killing, so she would know our family's thoughts on the matter. Both girls watch the news with us almost daily, and unless you completely shelter your kid it would be pretty hard to get to age 7 without having had some exposure to those concepts.

Liking a particular video game isn't something to be proud about necessarily, but it could suggest a general attitude of being brave, or of having sufficiently good safety awareness/perspective not to bothered by "scary" things that are not actual threats, or a budding interest in a military/law enforcement/defense related career, and those underlying personality traits [i] might [/i] be something a parent would be proud of.[/quote]

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