Long one, sorry! But I'd appreciate any thoughts or insights or advice. I going to have to get this deleted soon as well, because lots of detail
This is a bit of an ongoing issue (over the years) with DD2. Not hugely serious, but something that niggles at me (or worries me a bit) sometimes
Years ago (she was about 12) she wanted the Sims 2 computer games (I hope someone's familiar with them!) so I got her the game, and since then a few of the expansion games for it. I looked it up online beforehand and it seemed like a nice enough game, nothing I considered harmful, no shooting, swearing or blood and guts etc. The original age rating was 7+, but later expansions have a 12+ on them
If you've never heard of these games, the basic idea is you create these simulated humans, then you can build them nice houses and control their lives (like jobs, food etc) and you can raise their little sim children and do school, university, have pets and so on. I've had a go on it, and it really is amazing how much you can do on computers these days
Anyway, everything fine with it at first, she got quite addicted, it's quite involved and she easily could spend hours on it, and still can. But at some points, she either makes her 'sims' do odd stuff, or get upset at bits of it, or even seems to act out certain things (like her past) with it, and it has made me wonder/worry quite a bit.
She has also done nice things btw - on this game, the 'sims' can adopt babies/children, so she made a 'me' and made me adopt 3 children and made a nice house and she's done more adoption families and she's showed me and seemed quite happy with it 'look, look mummy, they adopted too, and they're really hapy, look!" etc
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Probably an innapropriate buy
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Lilka · 11/01/2013 20:37
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