- “So what rules should you lay down for your son? Professor Anderson has provided some practical guidelines based on the published research.28 He recommends first of all that you either play the game yourself or watch it being played. Then ask yourself these questions: • Does the game involve some characters trying to harm others? • Does this happen frequently, more than once or twice in thirty minutes? • Is the harm rewarded in any way? • Is the harm portrayed as humorous? • Are nonviolent solutions absent or less “fun” than the violent ones? • Are realistic consequences of violence absent from the game? If you answer yes to two or more of these questions, then Professor Anderson suggests that you reconsider whether your son should be allowed to play the game.” Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men (Leonard Sax) Page 69
- Alma 53:20 – 21…And they were all young men, and they were exceedingly valiant for courage, and also for strength and activity; but behold, this was not all—they were men who were true at all times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted. 21…Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him.