Should I delete Roblox for my daughter? Advice

I played it with my older daughter as she likes spending time with me this way. A player called another player a prick and a slag. So yeh not ok for small kids.

OP you really need to get clued up on what you are potentially exposing your dd to by letting her have free access to an I pad. She is only 5 and could potentially be accessing all sorts. You tube alone has lots of stuff which may appear suitable for young children but are actually really not. There are a lot of games out there like roblox which are grooming hot spots. I also hope you don't have your bank details set up on her iPad!

Its hard if you don't know but in future I would recommend googling games like this and getting the information about the games. There are a lot of good games out there for kids but a lot of crappy ones that are just not safe. Even YouTube kids has had inappropriate content on it, nothing is 100% so you do need to keep an eye on things.

Totally!

My kids school have advised against the kids playing Roblox many, many times as it's so dangerous!

Just to specify, kids that age should have no access to online games. My son is 6, asked for roblox last week after watching some YouTube kids videos. Told him no one was allowed until they're 12. Online games are a can of worms - we're very lax on screens so they've never been an issue with overplaying, and minecraft (peaceful) is great for building pyramids and collecting resources and such, exploring. Browsers are a big no too, we have blocked access so he doesn't know it's a thing. It's your responsibility to make sure that she's not available to bad actors.

DD is 5 and uses my iPad for homework only and it will stay that way for the foreseeable, screen time is so addictive at any age but at 5 they literally have zero control or self discipline. As for Roblox I've read so much bad stuff about it, there is a lot of content on there not suitable for younger children I wouldn't want my 5yo anywhere near it.

Yes, delete it.

Roblox is an entirely user created game. None of it is created by an official source to any kind of rigorous standard.

You, or I, or the dirty pervert down the road make games and then make them available for everyone else to play. Dirty Perv could call the game 'adopt kittens with me' and give it a fun description about solving challenges and being rewarded with cute lil kitty cats. Then when you get in to the game, every character is naked, speaks only in innuendo or sexual overtures, performs pole dance style 'celebrations" and so on.

It has chat functionality both text and voice, so if you don't implement appropriate parental controls your daughter can make friends online and have conversations with them, they can share links to many external sites like YouTube, Facebook, Discord, X (formerly Twitter), Guilded, and Twitch so could direct her to all sorts of content, it has in app purchasing so if you haven't been careful with buying credits she may be able to buy more without realising she's spending real money.

It's a complete shit show when it comes to safeguarding.

Install Google family on it so you can limit screen time to eg 1 hour per day.

Too young for an iPad full stop imo. A shared, family iPad perhaps. Definitely no to Roblox. I'd sooner get a BeeBot or Code and Go mouse, if coding and programming was what I wanted my kid to explore, over an iPad. But each to their own.

I’ve taken it off mine this weekend and uploaded some new games. He asked where it was. Acted surprised. He was fine playing his new games. Then we were browsing and he saw it - popped the wrong password it and surprise, it failed, told him Roblox must be updating it like we have to update it sometime. He asked about it just once today and I said I’d look for it in a few mins and he didn’t ask again :)

My 12 year old wasn't allowed Roblox ever and never will be, this game is not safe. It allows users to create their own games which are not monitored for content so can contain anything including violence, sex etc. It is known to have scammers, hackers and predators on there.

My 13yr old plays Roblox, it’s really not ok for 5, and nor do 5 yrs need an iPad. Really what are you thinking?

please tell me you have u tube kids?

download age suitable games only and put some parental controls on your devices!

Not Shirley FFS. Surely!

Sorry you meant she is in YEAR 4? Even so my son in Year 4 hasn't touched Roblox. Shirley you didn't mean age 4? That can't be right surely ?

A 4 year old is playing Roblox? Our daughter turns 5 this week and does not even possess an iPad 🤣 she has a laptop since Christmas on which she does her school maths work and some Netflix watching. Her brother is 9, and he has all sorts but has never gone near Roblox. He plays FIFA cricket22 and Minecraft solo mode to build villages and such.

This must be a wind up ….

At that age I would only offer the CBeebies apps