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The boys and I had bible study this morning. Then the boy next door dropped by with his x box Halo game. I am so tired of the violence, and coming right after bible study was more than I could endure. I told the boys "No you can not play Halo." This game is all about army men with serious weapons shooting other army men with serious weapons.

When they play it they yell at each other, and fight when one gets shot by friendly fire, so to speak. I dislike it in my house and I put my foot down. I told the boys to play something else. They claimed not to have another multi player game. I said tough, go play a board game. I am the mom and I think the game is violent.

The boys didn't want to go to the store with me. I knew it was so they could play the game while I was out. I don't mind the racing games or Mario games. But the realistic humanoid figures that attack each other and blow each other up, no wonder students don't have a clue how to behave in society and school. They are visually inundated with violence for hours playing games. How will the world ever have peace when our children are taught violence so early.

They whine and complain claiming the games aren't violent at all. I tell them to put in a game that doesn't have guns. They claim those are all broken. Too bad. I have little sympathy. They have plenty of games they just don't want to play the non violent ones.
I don't think my girlfriends with daughters have this problem. They get to fight over whether their daughter is old enough to go to the mall with a friend unsupervised. I can't even interest my boys in going to the mall. They want to watch violence on TV.

Tom wont help very much. He bought half the violent games we have in the house. At least when I am in charge I can make the rules. This summer there will be no violent games while I am in charge. Thank goodness most of our summer activities involve being away from computer games and TV. I think I will just have the games disappear. The boys probably wont know the difference since they don't do a very good job taking care of their electronic toys. They don't put them back in the boxes and many have gotten scratched. I like the board games and reading and bionicles. Perhaps with the electronic games missing they will revert back to the games I approve.