[Stu]

They were not strict at all. I don't see why any parent should be. Good films and games will serve along with reading to really broaden a childs imagination. I picked up good English and good visual senses from an early age from playing games.

A well produced, bloody sci fi movie with an interesting plot will do far better for a child than some Disney hogwash and despite the enormous, absoloutely huge amount of media attention and behavioural research done in to the effects of violent video games and movies on under agers, all we have are a few scraps of juiced up stories concerning kids who would have been nutters anyway and probably would have done far worse out on the street if they were not practicing indoors for hours at a time on a PC first.