To be totally out of date about DS's

[katedan]

I mean the electronic handheld variety not my darling son.

DS has just had a friend to sleepover last night and the other boy brought is DS with him and played on it constantly instead of playing with my son. I found this very weird and did remove it from their room over night to stop anyone playing with it iin the night. My son uses my DS sometimes (and I do feel his behaviour is worse when he has been on it so it is restricted)

This has happend before with another child who came to play and my son got so bored watching him on his DS he did not want him over again.

I ended up saying something this morning when the other boy asked me why my son has walked off to play with his sisters and I said he thought he was bored as he did not want to watch him play on his DS.

So AIBU? I accept I might be out of touch but I just found this rude.

The boys are 8/9 years old

I think YANBU. I think there are so many bad manners around these things. I worked in a pub and hated seeing families out having meals and all the kids on their DS. I don't think I would send my DC on a play date with one, whats the point?

You're not U - the boy is just rude.

I can't imagine your DS will invite him over again in a hurry.

YANBU, it is unspeakably rude and exactly why my 6yo doesn't even know what a DS is, nor a gamestation, or any other gaming device. No Wii, no x-box, no Sky even in this house. Now I admit we're not a gaming family anyway but there's not a cat in hell's chance I'd allow him to have a personal gaming set at that age. Rude, rude, rude.

Hate DS's, think they are the worst thing ever invented! Kids - heads down. My optician told me yesterday too that DS's are affecting children's eyesight development!

In this case, it doesn't matter whether it was a DS, or a mobile phone. The boy came round to play, and basically just wanted to sit there and ignore your son. Rude. Unfortunately, his parents probably don't see this as rude, but normal, so you've got no chance of fixing it!

I think YANBU. Manners are everything. This poor child doesn't seem to have any!

We are a gaming family but I will not be allowing handheld devices like this because it is so unspeakably rude.

DH's family do this kind of thing all the time and I tell them when they are being boring now.

Yeah, really rude. DS has a DS and playdates do sometimes revolve around them. Can't really defend it.

My DD is a 'gamer' and has a DS that i used to allow her to take out with her, when she was 11/12, she never used it around her friends, though.

This is more to do with the child having unrestricted access, to young, to a hand held game. They are of an age were they should still be able to 'play'.

YANBU. I visited cousins recently and their DD did not look up from her DS for the entire visit, including during dinner. I could see her grandmother was quite cross about it.

I think it's quite sad that he can't tear himself away from his DS long enough to have a "real" relationship with anybody :(