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Playing Online Games Bridges Generation GapCanadians have weird online gaming habits. It turns out that they do not only prefer playing online games nude, they also support parents-children gaming experience, hopefully not in the same time. Canada.com talked with Debbie Gordon, a local media literacy expert who suggests parents to bridge the generation gap by joining their children as they play console games and multi player online games. That way, she says, they will understand the great attraction as well as the risk.
Online and video games is a very sensitive issue in Canada ever since a 15 years old, who has been addicted to the war game, Call of Duty 4, had disappeared of his Ontario home after his parents confiscate the xbox console, and was found dead three weeks later. Ms. Gordon, who was used to guide parents on the potential dangers that lie in social networks and chats, has realized that the possible gaming risks occupy most of her guided's attention.
Exhibiting an active interest in your children's video games is no different than following their hockey games, school plays or any other traditional extracurricular activities, Debbie Gordon says. It's the parents' "responsibility to understand the attraction" she says, especially when surveys show that 90% of the youth in Canada own some kind of game facility. And even though about 60% of the gamer youth share the experience with their folks, the 40% who play online games with the absence of a guiding parental eye worry her.
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