Would you want your children to be gamers like you?

I would not mind the addiction of games for my children(not married yet), but if they are too much addictive in it, i would certainly make sure that in their early childhood they do not get to play any games other then hardware based.

I would love it if my children became gamers !
I will give them my snes for starters, when they get older they get a PS3 or Wii.

Oh and if I ever hear them trolling online I willtake the console away for a week or so.8)

i wouldn't let them sit their for hours doing nothing else when they are young, but i think gaming could be a good way of interacting with your children.

Why not? Finally I'd have someone to play with. Hopefuly local multiplayer hasn't been extinguished by then.

I really wouldn't care. I'd be happy with my children as long as they have a better childhood than mine, that's for sure.

I would want my daughter to pursue what she enjoys. If gaming is one of those things, then so be it. If it's something else, more power to her. I'm there to encourage and nurture regardless.

I don't see why not, it's a good way to interact with your children.

If they wanted to, and as long as they had a healthy social life, it wouldn't bother me.

I probably wouldn't introduce gaming to them until a later age. My nephew started playing games at an early age because he saw his dad playing them. Now, at 5 years old, the kid crys and whines when he is told to stop playing. Its also not a good sign that at his birthday party, while the kids just went outside to play, he came back inside within 5 minutes to play his handheld. Some of the adults thought that was rude.This is just my example, so if I were to have children I'd wait till they reached an older age. At the same time, I'd probably play video games when they slept or are at daycare so they won't become influenced to play them from just watching me.

I think it'd be cool for my kids to be gamers. Also, if my kids are gaming in 20 years or so, that sort of gives me a way to still have exposure to games even after giving up gaming. I mean, I sort of expect that I'll have given up gaming 20 or 30 years from now, but it'd still be kind of cool to see what games are like. Having kids means that I can buy games for THEM, and then kind of play around with their games a little bit even if I wouldn't buy games for myself.

But yeah...I wouldn't mind my kids being gamers. Just as long as they're not super hardcore about gaming.

Probably.

first off let me say that i dont want kids. not once, not never.

but the world works in funny ways, if somehow im put in the position that i do have a child, i would love to have them be a gamer.

as with anything though, always in moderation. ive seen too many obese kids glued to their ds and no friends, not to mention complete a-holes to their parents. i wouldnt stand for that. i remember when i got into trouble as a child, i would get put on "restriction" and that meant no television and thus no video games. that kept me in line. but at the same time this meant an end to my social life with the neighborhood kids for x amount of time. video games have always been secondary to my social life. i would make sure that my kid was playing local community sports and make plenty of friends that way.

thats one of the downfalls to online gaming today, kids use that as an excuse to their non-existant social life by saying that they are being social. being annoying and excessively cussing behind your parent's back to people they will never meet is not being social. i would ensure single player gaming or local multiplayer until they are at least a freshman in high school.

when they are grown up and wanna be playing an MMO every moment of their life, that is their decision. but ill do whatever i can early in their life to mold them into not turning into that.

When i was a kid i played games for hours and nobody stopped me. I have two boys and i dont want them playing on games like i did at their age,1-2 hours max a day is acceptable, not 4-5 like i used to do.

My daughters are gamers. We play a lot of LBP together (sometimes we play Scott Pilgrim), they play Sports Champions, Eyepet and Start the Party mostly on their own and they have a DS (with Nintendogs, Scribblenauts, Style Savy and Animal Crossing).

I hold them to an hour of gaming on weekdays, though often they are so busy with homework, afterschool activities and errands they don't get in the hour before their bedtime. On weekends we play it by ear (we go out a lot but if the weather is awful, we marathon on LBP).

Ihonestly dont see how my kids wont be gamers.

a gamer like me? no...a gamer yes. I spend too much time playing games to the point where in hs i had a 2.1 ....still went to college though

I'd like it. But I'd want them to stay active and up on their schoolwork as well.

I absolutely want my kids to be gamers. The only thing I don't want is for gaming to interfere with their schoolwork, like it did with mine :)

i think games can be healthy for development of the brain (it's actually been scientifically proven to help grow the conscious mind), but it depends on the game and on the person playing. but for me, they're very helpful.

Yes, and I would give them

*Banjo Tooie

*Orcarina of Time

*Super Mario NES

*The World Ends With You

to start off with....

and then when they get a little older....

*Grand Theft Auto 4

*Crisis Core

*Call of Duty 4

*Assassins Creed 2

Because these are the games that have influenced my life and I hope that one day my children get to experience that aswell :)