What age is a playstation good for for a child is 6 to young and for it to be in the child room, is it lazy parenting?
What age is a playstation good for for a child is 6 to young and for it to be in the child room, is it lazy parenting?
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It's a very personal thing. We don't have TVs in bedrooms atm. Our son is 8 and will be getting Switch as a Xmas present for the whole family. It'll be in our living for us all to enjoy and play. We have a thing about devices in bedrooms, but to each their own. Not my monkeys, not my circus.
We didn’t allow tech in bedrooms until the teenage years, even then we took them out at night.
Kids in general do have difficulty monitoring there own behaviour and need to learn how to manage online gaming safely.
There are a lot of creeps out there. Even when playing with there friends it’s a good idea to have ears and eyes on them in the background. Just like you would in a play date.
It’s a good idea to go do a tech/internet safety course.
We just gave our 8 year old a Switch for his birthday. It can be removed from the dock so sometimes DS takes it to his room but it must come back when time is up. (It's locked down so he can't access anything online without our permission.)
I'd never allow it in his bedroom permanently as it's addictive & too difficult to monitor. Plus I don't want it to replace reading/playing.
It's not a question of lazy parenting, tho. It's no one's business but your own what works for you.
6 is not too young but I wouldn't have it in the bedroom. It's easier to control when it's not in there.
In my personal opinion the switch is far more child friendly and has many more game options than a PlayStation, I don’t think 6 is too young but like others have said I wouldn’t put it in the bedroom
My son is 10 and he has one in his bedroom we have a thing where his bedroom door is never shut it has to remain open at all times when he is home the only time his bedroom door is shut is when he isn’t home and his bedroom window is open ( which is when he isn’t at home) it’s so we can hear and monitor everything that goes on in his bedroom there are times we have heard things that we don’t think he should be watching on YouTube on it that he have told him to turn off the only reason we have internet connection on it is so he can talk to his uncle (my brother) on games and through a chat that they have on there
We are a heavy gaming family and for that age I would recommend a switch. We have all 3 consoles and the kids enjoy the switch the most. Kids ages are 5, 6 and 12. We dont have any in the bedrooms. The kids have a ps4 and xbox in the playroom which we can see from our lounge. Our main consoles are in the family room and we control what they play. They only play with us around.
My 5 (almost 6) year old plays on my xbox some days in the afternoon. She jumps online and plays with her cousin who's a few years older. It's all my account and I monitor everything. She also plays games on the PC (abc reading eggs), and shared a switch with her 3.5 year old sister and they'll play Mario kart or just dance together. I don't see an issue with any of their tech use as that's the world we now live in, I just monitor it and restrict their usage so it's not constant. But they still go outside and play inside with their toys all the time