Fortnight/war games-9 years old?

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My 9 year old says IABU because I won’t let him play fortnite, or other war games . Want to play gears of war etc.
Aibu?

YANBU.

9yos don't get to be the parent. You make those choices.

Well it's just up to you isn't it?
My DS played fort nite- it's not very war like. He's bored of it now tho and back to playing fifa

I know that, I’m really asking whether others let their children play games such as these. Sorry, I should have made that clearer.

YANBU. My 9yo and 12yo aren't allowed either.

As parent, it's your decision.

My 10year oldplays fortnite and from the chats in the park before school so do most of his year group. He has a lot of his school friends on Xbox live and they chat and arrange going to each other’s houses etc on there.

I have a 9 yo and a 7yo and neither of them are allowed to play fortnite or those kinds of games.

Fortnite is rated a 12 isn't it? Doesnt help that some of their classmates get to play.

Yes, it is a 12, but apparently ‘everyone ‘ plays it (likely story!)

Mine plays Fortnite, I don’t mind fortnite so much he spends ages picking skins and jet packs and stuff. They also do lots of dancing.
I prefer him playing fortnite than plants vs zombies which I think is 7plus.

YANBU! I wish I'd known more about it when I started letting my 12 year old play it. Six months on and it, along with 12 year olds absolutely vile language, dominate the household between 3.30-9 every day. He is completely obsessed and out of control, he will physically fight me for the controller if I take it or smash his bedroom up if I turn the WiFi off. DONT DO IT!

DS 10 gets to play fortnite occasionally but only on iPad (we don't own a console) and not with headphones in/talking to others

No other war games. Mine craft, few driving games but most are 4+ ones

Ds1 as allowed fortnight when he turned 11 under a host of conditions, the main one being that if he seemed to be getting addicted and unable to turn it off when asked he'd be outright banned permanently. He has automatic time limits on screens anyway.

You have to be so careful that they're not under pressure from friends to turn online chat on and let ransoms make up the numbers in their group - it needs close monitoring as there's too much potential to be contacted by randoms who aren't the 10 - 14 year olds they might claim to be...

Additionally it's designed to be highly addictive and for some children causes mood swings and behavioural changes.

If you do let him play it the next thing may be that "everyone" is allowed to make in game purchases.

I don't like the last man standing concept but I missed the boat on that having twigged too late that Minecraft isn't just on screen Lego and killing the odd Creeper... They'd started playing Bedwars which is Last man Standing.

Most kids seem to have stopped playing fortnight now though. He's into a Spiderman game (not online) atm.

We generally don't allow games more than a year below the age recommendations except in a few cases where they're not online and DH has played them through himself and thinks they're okay.

10 & 8 dcs here, and they've never had a PlayStation/Xbox/whatever they're called to play these things on. They've never asked either. Mind, they're girls, but I don't know if that's relevant.