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Post by
wolfeyoung
My five year old daughter likes to play WoW. She plays my Belf holy paladin. She doesn't do much more then run around killing mobs in shalazar, dragonblight etc. I have two abilities key-bound to the mouse scroll (holyshock and a JL) so she can just scroll back and forth killing stuff. She also likes to fly around the tree tops too.
So here are my two questions.
1) Is this weird/unhealthy for her to do.
2) Does anyone else have a child or know of a child that plays WoW (other then alliance players-jk =) !).
I'm not too concerned with her playing. But if someone knows of potential downfalls from her playing, please let me know. Also, any good stories of their child playing and doing some crazy stuff would be cool too.
PS. I don't know how, but my daughter died from an ally hunter. Really pissed her off. She wasn't PvPed will she was a corpse and when I got back to the body, wasn't pvped then either. I never turn on the PvP either when she plays. I looked at the combat log to see if she attacked him first but there was no damage from her to him.
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Post by
Murrdurr
I dont think its really a problem as long as you dont let her get hooked, a few minutes a day isnt going to hurt anything. I have a 2yr old son that likes to watch me play and ill even use his hands to hit the buttons to burn down a mob and he laughs and like the spell effects. I dont think I will let him get too involved with the game though because kids that young (any age to about 13) dont need to be sitting infront of the computer playing a game when they should be playing outside and staying healthy. I know that sounds corny but its true, of course there might be some that can balance outside play with alittle bit of WoW but for the most part many of them will just want to only play WoW.
Post by
Porcell
I think you are a bad parent.
Not because you are allowing your child to fly around and do innocuous things in game, but because are you coming here to ask if it's okay and don't have the confidence to make your own decisions when it comes to your child's activities.
But to answer your question, there's nothing wrong with what you are allowing your child to do. There are a lot of very pretty things in WoW, and flying around seeing them is cool, and running around on the ground and engaging mobs is interesting as well. Just make sure all the chat channels are turned off.
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Post by
calilac
Murrdurr covers it pretty well. Kids need more active play than the sedate flavor pc games offer. As long as you monitor her time well I think it should be fine until she can read well enough to understand and chat with others in the game, then you may have to tighten parental controls or monitor her activity even more closely. Some real weirdos out there, you know? I let my 5 year-old play with all chat channels off, she enjoys fishing and flower picking more than fighting. It's not child labor if she enjoys what she's doing, right? ;)
p.s. I don't know who Adrian is but my captcha tells me he's outworn
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Post by
Nilla
I'm not really sure where to stand on this, mainly because of my believes that video games and movies does not make kids "go bad", bad parenting does, but then I have a look at my sisters 5 year old girl.
She is most of the time a normal, sweet, utterly annoying little girl. But my parents tend to babysit her alot and they have let her make her own toons on their accounts. This is a bit of an issue and maybe even a little funny (In my twisted head anyways) that can pretty much be told by one event.
My niece have a female human warrior. She runs around the startingarea, killing wolfes. That all she does, she is getting really exited, she even dinged a few times, I teach her to say ding when it happens and she thinks its great. Loving it! Then her grandmother tells her to get off the computer and go outside and play a little before dinner. She does this (not very willingly) and drags me with her. I watch her run around with my parent's dog. A german shepherd. And out of nowhere she picks a big stick, rams it onto the dogs head and yells "DING!"
So it has it downsides, I think she just got to exited about it and thought it would be great fun to continue playing WoW while being outside with a dog that looks quite alot like the wolfes...
I have a son that almost a year old now. I wont be letting him playing games like that when he reaches 5. I'll be kicking him outside, give him a couple of cartboard boxes and tell him to built a fort or something.
And by the way, you are no where near a bad parent for asking this. Don't listen to people who clearly haven't got a clue. Get help where ever you can ;)
Post by
Adamsm
I started my own video game playing at the age of 5 heh, with the good ole NES... and my madre, who bought it for me, played it more then I did most of the time. Nothing wrong with young children playing the game, just make sure your playing with them, and keep the global channels turned off, and if the kid is in the guild with you(one of my guild mates let's his daughter((age 8)) plays on his account and he asks us to keep the guild chat clean) just let people know when it's the kid is all.
In other words, long as WoW isn't being used as a babysitter, just let the kid have fun with it.
Post by
wolfeyoung
I think you are a bad parent.
And you're a moron.
What you're suggesting is that anyone that goes to a forum and asks a question concerning their child is a bad parent. This is a wow forum, with wow players and some of those players have children. Asking people questions that have experience with the subject is fine. And I said I wasn't concerned, just curious about what others thought.
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Post by
Arigise
I tend to agree with Wolf on this one. Children used to be raised by a community of adults rather than just their parents. In today's society of technological isolation its becoming increasingly important for parents to reach outside their own experience for some guidance.
While in some ways it can be embarrassing to come before complete strangers and admit that we may be ignorant of correct child-rearing decisions the truth is EVERY parent hardly knows what they are doing as far as what is right and wrong with children. Even the experts can't agree on anything concrete.
I'd rather see a parent showing they are willing to ask and get opinions rather than have one that assumed they already have all the answers and refuse to ask.
Returning to the issue at hand, I raid with a group almost entirely composed of young parents and quite a few of them are experimenting with letting their toddlers play some WoW. In my opinion that's fine, but they should be closely supervised, not spend much time per day (15-20 minutes in most cases will be plenty), and encouraged to talk over what they did with you.
If they start showing any signs of gaming addiction, or other aberrant behavior you should probably talk it through with them attempting to explain the difference between a virtual world and a real world (this can be tough to sell to a toddler) and/or cutting them off. Don't be afraid to take them to a therapist if things get really out of control.
Post by
anywherenotes
My 5 year old daughter (recently turned), also likes to play wow.
She likes to fly around, and sometimes kill mobs ... I just tell her to press '1', and make sure that button does something offensive. She also likes playing with a hunter, because of a pet. And on a druid because of all the shifting they can do.
I think it's fine to let young kids like that play wow (forgetting about any Terms of Service restrictions). However when my daughter starts to read, I'm pretty sure I'll have to limit the toons and areas she can play in. I don't believe kids are stupid, and even with language filtering, they will understand what's going on - if they can read it.
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Post by
Kobe008
My 5 year old started playing when he was 4. I helped him create a Hunter since they are the easiest class to play. His hunter is now lvl 51 and believe it or not he does most of his lvling using LFD. He cannot read so he never knows what others are saying, but he knows which buttons to push to join or leave a group. Yeah he gets kicked out of some groups cause of bad dps, but if you sit and watch him he knows what to do. He pretty much plinks arrows at the mobs and he loves using Volley. He forgets to cast spells which is why his dps is so low. If I could get him to choose a pet and stick with it that would be nice. About every other day he wants me to help him find a new pet, which I suppose at that age is cooler than actually killing stuff.
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Post by
seebs
My nephew started playing occasionally a while back. He was maybe 6ish, he had at least a couple of characters in the teens and twenties. He was even invited to a guild for a while until someone found out he was 6.
I think it's a pretty rough environment in many ways, but with involved parents (who are willing to do stuff such as pointing out to the kid that the behavior they're seeing isn't good behavior) it should be fine.
As to the kid whacking a dog and saying "DING!", well, sometimes you have to explain about fantasy games and made-up stuff. Usually you only have to explain it once, kids are smarter than people give them credit for.
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