In shock that dd school had to point this out (gta5)

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My dd is 4 and in reception, this in an infant school so maximum age for pupils is 7.

She came home with a letter about children role playing GTA5 and COD.

I can understand some parent of 15-16 buying and playing these game but as young as 4.

What goes on in these adults minds who allows them to watch/play these games.

Sorry the letter say how inappropriate these games are for young children.

Yep, I know more people who DO let their kids play on them than don't, and I'm talking 7 year olds.

I've.never heard of those gamrs. Might be children are present when others are playing them.

It's bizarre isn't it? :(

Why there are so many games aimed at primary aged children.

My mind boggles.

Little boys have been playing shooting and killing and war and cops and robbers for generations.What makes the school think it is all down to these games?

I guess some parents just don't care, or perhaps the children see an older sibling playing. DP only plays these types of games when the children have gone to bed, I don't like them seeing them on the screen. It would take extremely close supervision for a 4 year old to safely play these games - sound turned off and just the driving parts, none of the drugs, prostitutes etc. Personally I can't see the appeal of them, even to an adult. I'll stick to Candy Crush!!!

My friend proudly boasts that her children all have facebook from age 8/9 and that her oldest 3 (11-15 can all.play COD (nit sure about the 6 year old, although he watches the others play it). Apparently its ok because its aliens not people or something

Bizarrely she won't let the younger 2 watch harry potter as they are 12s

pixie in my case it was hearing the 7 year olds use the words 'whore, muthafucker' and any number of obscene words alongside the normal bang bang you're dead stuff.

I am seeing scenarios from these games appearing in children's writing. They are far from simple games of cops and robbers.

It's awful, but it doesn't surprise me. My DS is 10 and his friends have been playing them for a couple of years. So inappropriate and a nightmare to manage as a parent. I will not allow it.

I got one of these letters and marched to the school all indignant thinking I'd been singled out.

Apparently there was some workshop visiting the school educating parents about the age ratings. It's scary how many people just don't realise games have them.

I think some people just have no idea what is in these games. I went to a parenting teens workshop last weekend and the subject of GTA came up and the person giving the talk mentioned that there is a scene involving necrophilia in GTA. In the coffee break I was talking to a woman whose 15 year old DS has GTA. She said she didn't realise it was bad. And then asked me what necrophilia was. She was horrified when I explained. She just assumed it was a shooting game. And she has no idea how her son got it! She thinks he ordered it himself.

I am a bad mummy for not allowing DS1 (13, almost 14) to play these games. We have compromised and said he can have a PEGI 16 after his 14th birthday, because he wants to play online with his mates. Im not comfortable with it, but equally, when younger friends have been playing for a couple of years, it gets really hard to keep saying no.

It's not hard to say no, I say it all the time.

I loved GTA but I agree with DD HT

so it is the langusge, rather than the game they are objecting to?In that case maybe they should have advised the parents to turn the volume down.

I let my 10 yr old dd play gta, all she does is drive about and crash! she has the volume down so she doesn't hear the swearing and she certainly doesn't repeat it in real life or does she carjack and run people over.

It's not just the language.

It's got f'all to do with the school, I'm more concerned they're wasting their time sending such letters. They need to spend more time reading fables about boys crying wolf.