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I think some game consoles already have a feature like that, but I'm not sure. I know parents can already restrict the rating of the games their kids play. It sounds like a good idea to keep kids *cough* me *cough* from staying up to late.

Anybody think that this idea should actually be sent to gaming companies?

Yes: 1

No: 0

If it's really high approval, I probably will.

12three wrote:

Totally yes. Kids are doing horrible in school because of these two reasons:
1. Loss of brain cells
2. Loss of sleep

That is not funny because it is right

I woke up at 10:45 because I fell asleep at 2:30 last night

Yes, send it in!

They have these sort of things for the PC, but nor for consoles, yet!

They should do this for a Phone too, so you can only send a certain amount of texts and calls a day. And you could ban numbers, or only allow certaion numbers!

rufflebee wrote:

SeptimusHeap wrote:

They should do this for a Phone too, so you can only send a certain amount of texts and calls a day. And you could ban numbers, or only allow certaion numbers!

The already do that

Now, I don't play video games, but I'm all for kids ruining their lives
Well setting their own limits, that is. If they make a bad choice then yeah it could pretty much ruin their lives in the long run but whatever
Knowing that they have to set their own limits gives them a sense of responsibility
Usually they have to find out the hard way that you can't stay up until one playing video games when you have to wake up for school at five, but I mean they learn from that, right? (After going through a horrible morning after only getting four hours of sleep, most kids know better than to try that again) And if they set their own limits, then they're the only one to blame. So they have to take responsibility for their actions. Which most kids these days have a hard time doing, as I've learned from experience
And it isn't the game-maker's fault that the kid wants to stay up all night playing it. It's the kid's fault for not being able to limit his/herself in the first place
But if that still doesn't sound like a good idea (it sounded alot better in my head), then parents should be able to make their kids go to sleep on their own. The game makers, again, shouldn't take responsibility for kids staying up all night. (In this case,) Its the parents fault (But I still think they should let the kids set their own limits, then it'd be the kid's fault, they'd become more responsible, blah blah blah)

You have a point. We have to learn some things for ourselves, and take responsibility. Unfortunately, most kids don't.

The point brought up on "controlling people's lives" and "kids need to learn to set their own standards" are good, but look at it this way:  If the kids don't learn to set their standards from someone setting some for them, when will they ever learn?  It's not in human nature to change the path you chose, but it is a whole lot easier to get on the right path before you've headed down the wrong path too long.  As for kiwi's comment, why shouldn't we care?  Humans are all in this together.  Taking the "don't care" route is a just an incredibly selfish way to live your life.  Instead of only caring about yourself, why not try and make someone else's life a little better?  And this feature would be there so if parents cared but couldn't keep an eye on their kid 24/7, which would annoy anyone.  The feature would be set up by parents, so that they don't have to bring consequences into the equation.

EDIT: One more thing: Basically, on the issue of kids setting their own standards, I'm saying that, yes, kids do need to learn this and some of it on their own, but that shouldn't hinder us from doing everything we can to help them.

Last edited by AtomicBawm3 (2010-11-28 20:03:38)

You can already control time on PC's. So this would be simple to do if people really wanted it.
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