To say something to school about Five Nights At Freddies

[Skittykitty]

DS is 7yo. At school yesterday he had computer time, he said the boy he was paired with was googling Five Nights At Freddies and viewing jumpscare? images. DS told me about it as I've told him if he ever sees anything online that upset/worries/confuses him he should tell a grown up. He says he tried to tell a teacher at school but this boy wouldn't let him past.

I asked what was Googled and then searched the same terms. I got pictures of a yellow bear, in some of them he has range and red eyes. I also got images of some sort of clown type puppet with a cracked mask, a pigtailed doll in the same style of drawing and some still images from the Puppetmaster 4 film. DS confirmed this is what they were looking at. I didn't know what this game was so I looked it up and asked some gamer friends. It is definitely not something DS would be allowed to play or watch videos of at this age.

AIBU to speak to his teacher about it today? His internet use at home is supervised and content is restricted, I'd have thought school would have similar rules in place considering I had to sign a contract promising that DS would use the school internet responsibly I've had a long night of him in and out of my bed wittering on about this fucking bear so I'm pissed off about it!

the child knew the search terms and googled them. If the child hadn't been exposed to five nights at freddy's in the first place this wouldn't have happened

Ds1 asked a couple of weeks ago if he could play this on his iPad and after looking into it, I told him no.

The fact that he knew what this is called is nothing to do with his home internet usage - he's heard about it from boys in school. Hardly something dh or I can prevent.

My Dc had heard of lots of stuff without being exposed to it directly.

I hope they didn't try to access any of it away from home, but here's no reason to think that it would never have occurred to them to Google any of it.

This incident needs to be mentioned because the school's internet monitoring procedures need to be improved. Also because the other boy forced OP's DS to continue to watch something he did. It want to . Those are both school issues.

There is no need for OP to make or mention any assumptions one way or another about the other boy's home life. The school ought to be alert to potential safeguarding angles to any and all school issues.

The back story of that game is it being about the murder of a group of children, so yes, you should talk to the school.

Those stuffed bears are supposedly filled and haunted by the bodies of the dead children.

My dc was watching them and insisted it didn't scare her until she followed me about the house like a shadow for a week because she didn't want to get jumped at.
Banned and it's never to mentioned in the house again.

I watched a couple videos and it's the suspense that is more scary and then the jump. Also if you listen to one of the puppets that you never see they go into scary details of the happenings there.

Definetly contact the school.

GreenHillsOfHome that was the point the PP was making, that no seven year old should know about it. If all children were properly supervised on the internet, then they wouldn't be able to tell other kids about shit like this.

I know about it because it scared the shit out of my 19 year old, so I'm guessing it's totally unsuitable for a child.

Basically, with regards to any potential safeguarding situation, it's best to record what you know and pass it on to staff asap. Then it's out of your hands and let them decide what to do. The fact the child knew it was potentially 'contraband' means they know it's not suitable. Also, I'd be worried what else they could be exposed to or seek out and hide from adults.

Definitely tell the school. No way should they have had access to this . I would also be concerned about the little boy accessing this inappropriate material at home and would want to talk to his parents about it ( I'm a school leader)

My six year old DD loves the Five Nights at Freddie's song. She's played the first release game once or twice under supervision without knowing the back story of murdered children. She got bored. It's a one trick jump scare poney.

However, I don't think those images should be available in school. There was nothing like that in the game we played.

My kids played this a couple of years ago, they'd have been 9/10/11. They didn't find it particularly scary.

It isn't appropriate for a 7yo but I'm not sure why you'd bring it to schools attention. It's parents responsibility to monitor what their kids are doing.

It's not gory is it? I've seen it before but ages ago.

You just play a security guard and have to keep watching the cameras and the creatures move.

It's just jumpy

It's a 12 rated horror game.
www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/five-nights-at-freddys

It's parents responsibility to monitor what their kids are doing.

Not when they're at school it's not, that lies with school to have restrictions on unsuitable content, I would mention it to the school OP.

You can't monitor what your child or others are doing in school. Some parents allow their children to play games for older children and they can be on a tablet if it is brought into school. IMO tablets should not be brought into school anyway!

Thanks all.

I mentioned it to school, more as an issue of awareness than a raging complaint. They've had a chat with DS and the other boy and are looking into it. Meanwhile we've given DS lots of reassurance that it's not real and can't hurt him.

The game is deeply inappropriate for that age but I can see why it's so fascinating. It's entire premise is jump scare, it has a leading creeping horror coupled with limited movement of the player and a horrific backstory. Basically you play a nightwatchman on his first night at a kids cafe place with anamatronic animals, human sized. A creepy voice recording left by the previous watchman tells how the suits come alive at night and you are left flicking between grainy security cam footage of rooms and tunnels leading to the room you are stuck in. You can light rooms and close the door when needed but have very limited power. And the jumpscares are horrendous!

If this was a film people would be up in arms at a child seeing it but as a game its ok? It's worse as you have to make the choices! As the game progresses it becomes clear the suits 'eat' the children who then inhabit them. One doesn't have it's fur on and lunges at you. I've never played but watched the game played through several times and even the adults playing are terrified of the jumps, I can see that being nightmare fuel! However it is super cheap and very easy to get on steam, can easily see how an older child or someone let a child see. But something I'd definitely make a teacher aware of.