to not let ds's friend have dp's x-box gamertag?

[kittybrown]

Ok. Ds and classmate are 10. His classmate got his x-box for christmas along with Call of Duty. We have Call of Duty but ds has no interest in playing it (which is lucky as we wouldn't let him play it on his own). Classmate thinks ds is very lame because of this. He has requested ds's dad's gamertag as he wants to link up with him.
AIBU (should be AweBU really)not to give it to him on the grounds that 1) It's not appropriate for dp to play a 15+ game online with a 10 year old when we wont let our own 10 year do it. 2) (not sure if this is me being a bit spiteful)That he hasn't even asked ds for his gamertag. He just wants dp's.
His parents seem to think we're being unreasonable. Are we?

YANBU, you don't have to give your gamertag to anyone you don't want to, and I think it's a sensible idea not to let your DP play COD with a 10yo.
Friend's parents are BU. It's a 15+ game for a reason. Have you seen the airport level? I wouldn't let a 10yo play that. (This is assuming you mean modern warfare 2.)

No you are not being unreasonable.

Maybe explain to his parents that when DP plays, he want to relax and not worry about what he does because a child might be playing and you could then drop in you do know its a 15 cert game don;t you?

no you are not being at all unreasonable.

I think it's world at war.
I did question them when they said they were getting it for him for christmas. They said they felt their ds was mature enough. I explained that we don't let ds play. They just laughed and said ds was a bit soft.
I didn't think I was being unreasonable. Sometimes you just need to check!

You don't have to play the airport level in MW2, there's an option to skip it.

You'd want the gamertag to play the online version (of CoD4, CoD:WaW and MW2), which is quite different from the story mode. Basically you run around shooting as many strangers as you can and dying as little as possible in c. 10 mins (there are various modes but they all seem to be minor variations on this basic premise). Frankly it doesn't matter who you're playing against really.

Adding someone as a friend on xbox live lets you have private chat with them and form parties to play together. I cannot for the life of you imagine why your ds's friend would want to be xbox friends with your dp. How odd.

Yanbu.

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I let DS1 (9) play call of duty. I figured he'd seen enough of DP playing it, so he may as well have a go himself. After much nagging obviously. It seems to mostly be a pretty generic (and boring if you ask me) war game.

He's completed both CoD4 and MW2 (although I did make him skip the airport level) and also plays online where he is not allowed to even listen to any of the voice communication never mind speak to anyone. DP and DS also like to play the co-op levels together, and sit offering each other advice for single-player activities.