Say what? Now, if you are going to make a statement that bold, you may as well have at least one thing to back it up. In your whole post, you don’t. I’m not blaming the media for all of our values decreasing (it’s the people supporting the media, and making that ok in our society); but the media itself certaintly is speeding up the process.

That is the way little league works; but honestly, you’re smart. I know you’ve made it past third grade; from there sports get much more competative. Tournaments are held. It’s no longer about fun. It’s about winning.

And honestly, how does defeat even relate? Even if you are trying to get the spotlight of off videogames, the fact of the matter is that videogames don’t teach anything about defeat either. I played a MMORGP (Or something like that) for two days, and there were so many sore losers. And also, somebody has to be the greatest. But I don’t see how being great even matters in this argument; but if you’d look around at society today, videogames in general are looked down upon. There’s generally not much in between; you play no video games, a little bit, or constantly play them. Variety is important in life.

Plus, accepting defeat? Couldn’t you think of something better? If Martin Luther King accepted defeat, would we have the civil rights we do today? If all the struggling students accept defeat, wouldn’t jobs as cashiers drop dramatically? No, we do not want to teach them to “accept defeat correctly”. We want to teach them to keep pushing forward. That’s what seals a business deal; and that’s the real world. If you accept defeat, you lost. You’re a loser; the other person won. We don’t need to bring trophies into any aspect of life to realize that the persistant are the ones who succeed.

I would certaily hope that at age 14 I don’t have kids. I accept the world is changing; it’s you that embraces every change. If you blindly acknowledge every technology as good, you’re no better than someone who blindy rejects them all. I’ve found a balance; and I lead a healthy (real) social life.

Plus, teaching children about values has nothing to do with teaching them about responsibility. Saying, “Media is going down the drain, and it can cause corruption, because it has openly profane and obscene content,” that’s not shifting the blame on anyone. In fact, you’re whole post above was just blindly pointing a finger at any thing other than videogames you could think of; and I’m sorry to say, it was a poor decision. If you were to handle this situation “correctly” you would acknowledge that; but my guess is you’ll be persistant. Because you and I are both passionate people; don’t tell me we need to teach our children passion is bad by teaching them to “accept defeat correctly”.

I’m sad to say, you’ve closed your eyes towards the youth playing video games. I am the youth; I see it around me everyday. I can spot which people play videogames at my school; it’s not hard. They have pale skin, sit alone with their DS at lunch, and don’t really know how to socialize. The world is gray; but you view it as videogames are black and white. They’re good. You socialize with pixels. Good kids turn bad quickly; especially at a young age. You wouldn’t believe how many children are planning on going to see Saw V. And it’s not just my grade level; kids much younger. 3rd grade even. Now, tell me that’s not messed up. Tell me all that violence won’t influence them; especially in such a critical development stage for them.

Video games, music and movies are not the cause of our moral values changing, it has to do with dumbing down everything. We are trying to make sure that we dont hurt anyone elses feelings.

We give everyone that plays little league sports a trophy now and their are no winners and losers. That is not teaching our kids anything. In life you have winners and losers, that is how it is and that is how it will always be. We should be teaching our children how to deal with a defeat correctly. We need to teach our children that no matter how great they are their is always someone else in the world that is better.

We are failing our children because of people like you that will not accept that the world is changing. People like you that are all for dumbing down of America. Its people like you that want to blame everything else for our own mistakes.
How is that teach your children to be responsible?

Video Games, Music and Movies are not ruin our children, its people like you that are showing our children that its okay to blame others for their mistakes.

You need to stop looking at the world as black and white and start understanding that the world is grey and because of this grey the world will never be perfect.

Good Parents make Good children, yes their are expections to every rule but in general Good parents = good children.

Btw, the Mike with the poor grammar that posted was certaintly not me. Just for the record, lol.

I do agree with the one person who said video games are a valid hobby; but they aren’t a way of life. One critical aspect, at least in my life, is the outdoors. Time to socialize and such. I play some video games, maybe 10 minutes a day, but I do so in moderation and games that are safe (like mario, and other games I support). When people get sucked in, stop spending with others, like I’ve seen happen to many people, then there’s an issue. My comment was not directed to those who play a bit each day, but rather those who devote their lives to it.

Good Parents = Good Children? Most ceraintly not! While I personally have taken several values from my parents, and I personally choose to be a good child, several others can not. I can testify as the son of a dad in full time christian work, that I’ve seen parents full of values, spend all of their time with their kids, and I’ve seen those kids turn agaisnt them. I’m seen them become rotten, spoiled, etc. On the flip side, I had a very close friend where the majority of her family (including both of her parents, and she had several not so great legal guardians) was in jail, and she was one of the sweetest people you would ever meet. It boils down to choosing to be a good child. Your parents, your friends, and your hobbies all have a huge effect on who you become as a person, and what choices you will make. Yes, the media has an effect on you, no matter how small. Generally it’s a lot larger than we realize though; cussing has become almost casual in today’s society! Profanity, obscenity, and other evils are taking over, and I think the media has a big part to do with it; especially since it, not the people, set the trend.

Again How long has human violence been around?

Video games, movies, music have nothing to do with crime. Crime is Crime like you said.

Its the parents that need to take responsibility, if you dont want your kids to play those video games then stop them.

You guys need to stop blaming everything else, its the parents that are responsible, if the parents rasie their child right, then you do not have to worry about them becomfing a criminal.

This is not rocket science,
Good Parents = Good Children.

Millions of people play Video games every year, not even 1% of them commit crimes, think about that.

The Video game industry is a 28 billion dollar industry, Almost everyone in the world plays video games at some point.
To blame video games for violence is like blaming Cars for Accidents.

I agree with both of these statements completely and anyhow its seems to me like all it is, is a hypmotizing game that people foolishly get addicted to its the kind of games that keep kids like my brother on the computer instead of the honor roll besides the game is pointless and turns the people who play it into addicted idiots that cant stop playing it long enough to blink No offense I’m not saying this to be rude or anything but I think it would be wiser to use the internet for learning and not to play a game where you can start a gang and be criminals