7 year old and fortnite

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Hey, just wanting to get other peoples thoughts and experience on kids playing on fortnite, my 7 year old son is becoming more addicted. We have set limitations but is endless battles! Should I just throw Nintendo DS out the window!!

Adults don’t generally behave like that.
Set limits.
Battles? Don’t argue.
Bad behaviour means loss of the game for a further day.

Its not so much bad behaviour, he says it’s only thing he likes to do as chats with his friends on it, gets upset not shouting or agressive. It’s difficult as it’s the only thing he has at the minute as all clubs have stopped and has no interest in doing anything else such as Lego or on his bike.

I banned it. And Roblox. They have Minecraft. They survived this massive deprivation.

There are other things he could do
Isn’t he seeing friends at school?
He’s upset? Or he’s acting upset to get you to give in.
Set a time he can go on it.
Moaning or any attempt to change the rules means he is banned for a day.

Yes, chuck it out.
Why are you giving it to a seven-year-old?
So many more things he could be doing with his time.

He got it as most of his friends are on it and it was a way for them to connect during lockdown which worked well for awhile but now it’s taken over. I know I should ban it or be stricter, just hard to be consistently strict when emotional resilance is down as a parent

ban it.

7yo should not be playing fortnite.

I would take fortnite away all together, most addictive game ever.

It is bad enough in teenagers, how much important interactions for social development would a 7 year old miss becoming so addicted to video games so young?

Honestly, save yourself a thousand battles, keep him in Minecraft and similar for the time being.

How can you expect your seven year old to have boundaries when you don’t?
Lead by example. Set time limits and find other things to do with him and to find other interests. Have sanctions and stick to them for shouting or throwing a tantrum when being asked to come off.
Play other games alongside him.
Be a parent to your 7 year old.

Ban it. I work in a school in safeguarding and it is one of the biggest problems we have, especially with younger children being contacted by strangers on it. That game has been the start of 2 online grooming attempts that I have dealt with and the behaviour and aggression that we see in children who play it is awful.

At 7 years old this game is really not appropriate.

I'll bet if you set down with him every single time he wanted to play the game and watched/listened you'd be surprised at how awful the game is for swearing/stranger chat and see just how addictive it is.

You might then think twice about letting him play it.