When my mum asked my ds what he wanted for his birthday he said he wanted a ds. I didn't know he knew what one was, in fact he didn't even know what one was but his friend in school has one so probably heard it there. I told mum he was probably too young and i'd see if there was a more age appropriate alternative but before I had chance gd had gone out and bought the ds. Dh was not happy but I didn't want to make too much of a fuss and appear like an over anxious parent by asking them to take it back so it arrived in the post complete with super mario came. He LOVES it. Its scarey how much he loves it. He would play it all day every day if allowed but current rules are 15min on sat and sun but for the rest of the week he just talks about it and asks 'is it the weekend yet?'. My husband and I are not computer games people, never were so we might be over reacting and I konw he would certainly be introduced to the gaming world eventually and we would have got him a ds at some point but I just keep feeling 5 is too young. Perhaps if we didn't restrict it so much the novelty would ware off a bit and it is proving to be a rather useful bargaining tool. I'm sure when ds is7 and dd is 5 I won't have this anguish. But I am tempted to put it in a high cupboard for a couple of years. Any thoughts appreciated.