PSA to parents

LF Annie·Nov 29, 2016·2 votes·722 views

If you are foolish enough to let your children play this game before riot adds a parental control to remove chat, expect your children to be the subject of many situations where they may have done nothing wrong but still become the target of: vented anger frustration hate harassment blame and anything else that can be construed in the moments after a difficult, mind rending, half hour or more of grown people putting their effort into this and having to face loss.

this is not a game for children, and if you let them play expect to have to pay for counseling. [slayer-jinx-wink]

23 Comments

Z StatisticNov 30, 20162 votes

LOL

I had to go through therapy because of anxiety. Anxiety was made worse because of League. I went to therapy and had exposure therapy.

League is now the main reason why I am not anxious anymore.

LF AnnieNov 30, 20164 votes

im trying to figure out if your agreeing with me or trying to disprove me.

Z StatisticNov 30, 20161 votes

I'm telling you that you're making the situation worse by priming expectations. Expectations are a huge part of mental health.

LF AnnieNov 30, 20161 votes

then should we tell parents the idealist bullshit that they want to hear, or the reality of what happens?

Z StatisticNov 30, 20161 votes

You tell them that this game has competitive, team multiplayer and let them decided if their child is ready for that based on what they know from 30-40 years of being alive.

I mean, half of what you listened in the OP occurs in real life. 'Blame'? Fucking really? You don't think you get blamed for shit in day to day life? You don't think 'frustration' is a normal, day to occurrence?

There is something to be said about giving people complete information for decision making, but when it's filtered through certain people, that's when I say it's not worth it.

LF AnnieNov 30, 20161 votes

im not saying it doesnt but im just warning people that their child may be prematurely exposed to the darker side of human nature.

JorenciceNov 30, 20161 votes

Honestly good.

Sheltering kids is how we got the special snowflake generation.

LF AnnieNov 30, 20161 votes

you see though, this is me playing into the sheltering of kids to shelter myself from them.

Z StatisticNov 30, 20161 votes

Tbh, you wouldn't need to be sheltered from kids that have an ounce of self-respect and self-control.

This is one of those Catch 22s.

rtbf55359909Nov 30, 20162 votes

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LF AnnieNov 30, 20161 votes

thats because being an adult is hard for people to do in the real world with people watching. let alone on the anonamous web. but does that mean that parents should allow their children to be the recipient of it? O,o

Morality CoachNov 30, 20161 votes

Meh, the little kids that were going to be weirdos would be weird without video games.

All we had was Oregon Trail as a kid and we still had weirdos.

I have one of the weirdos from my Jr High on my facebook he's in a rugby league getting muddy as a 40 year old man and is still a straight weirdo.

HrynaNov 30, 20161 votes

Quality post. Very smart. This guy knows what life's about.

MartensiticNov 30, 20161 votes

"WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHIIIILDREEEEEEEEEEN!"

- everyone intending to limit civil rights for the past 70 years

TheEvilQueen135Nov 30, 20161 votes

I feel like a lot of parents probably don't even know their kids play the game. I don't know about you but I had a facebook at 12 and my parents didn't know. they didn't know about my aim for awhile or what games/sites I used really. It wasn't for lack of trying that they didn't know but I would flip to a new tab on a dime if i knew I was using something I knew my mother wouldn't like, and I only had to do that because my mom hated doors being closed. imagine a child who can close their door and is using a laptop they can put at 45 degrees instead of a desktop, its easy for them to hide something they're not supposed to be doing.

LF AnnieNov 30, 20161 votes

im not warning parents of children hiding it, but parents considering it for their children to play.

Dasdi96Nov 30, 20161 votes

I believe in the opposite, letting young ones play the game allows them to grow thick skin. If we get more thick skinned people, we will finally get rid of this bullshit pc culture.

LF AnnieNov 30, 20161 votes

i am not actually advocating against kids playing, im just trying to get a feature that removes chat from my screen in a way that doesn't actually say that.

TheEvilQueen135Nov 30, 20161 votes

what i'm saying is that if children want to play they will find a way. it's not a game they buy in a store so parents dont even see it and therefore probably wouldn't even think about "considering" it for their kid. did your parents pick out your game sites when you were young? or just the games they had to pay for?

LF AnnieNov 30, 20161 votes

if a parent is parenting even if the kid is hiding what their doing the parent can get a report from their internet provider. it just depends on how many shits the parent gives about what their children are doing. also, my parents let me play w/e i wanted as a child because they didnt want to pay for a babysitter. :D