Undocumented Kids

Thanks for your input, John. I am in the violence group and it is interesting to see what your students had to say. We are having some high school age children speak in our play but we never thought of having younger children. Maybe we just figured that they wouldn't be at a town council meeting. But it would be an interesting view point to hear from since they are the ones that are playing the games. A decision couldn't be made on their input alone but it should be considered. We're discussing how they view games without actually asking them. It's interesting too, that with all of the article that I have read to research our play, I haven't read anything from the children. There are all kinds of statistics about who plays what and what kinds of other things they're interested in but no has actually taken the time to interview the kids.

Something interesting I did find out this weekend though was from my brother who used to work for 989 Sports - the game division for Sony Playstation. He was telling me that the target audience for those machines and games is actually adults ages 18-24. So those children who are playing those particular games shouldn't even own the machine. And who is purchasing those machines or allowing them in their house? The parents. Interesting thought.