User:MrsH1983

Gamer ID
My gamer ID if you wish to add me is: EmmaHurley

Me, myself and I
Hey there, my names Emma, I'm 32 from Portsmouth, England. I married with two young son and in any spare time I have between home life and work life, I like to play video games, mainly on the ps4 but also the Xbox, wii u and pc. I also enjoy game apps on my iPad. Wikia is fair new for me but I'm looking forward to learning what the heck I'm doing. Coding has always fascinated me and something I've always wanted to learn.

Playing videos games has always been a big part of my love from a very young age. It was a social thing I used to spend my weekends doing with my siblings, into my teenage years and up to present.

I'm a huge advocate agents people that disagree with children playing computer games, don't get me wrong here, I do not agree with small children playing violent or explicit games. I have two sons and they do not play any games unsuible for there age range (my 11 year old may pay higher ages games but only once I vetted it to make sure it's acceptable). I my opinion and experience computer games can be extremely social, I mean we all remember are friends coming over with their controllers to play two player or have a go on games you had and they didn't, how is that anti-social. I've had some of the most competitive games with my brothers and sisters growing up then I ever did in sports at school and because of this I learnt not only to be gracious in defeat (this happened a lot when your not the oldest child) but also to be a courteous winner (that's mostly down to our mother making us. Well done mum, good job).

Yes I do make sure my children have the homework completed before they turn on a computer. Yes at weekends their don't go on until we have been out done what we've needed to do and enjoyed our day as a family, yes they can only play up to an hour before bed but they are all life skills, they have to learn that Somethings come first. I get the honour of watching my children laugh, play and learn they same way my and my siblings do and we all look forward to family Mario Kart or mario party night.

I honestly believe interdicting children to computer games in the right, healthy way is nothing but rewarding. We are a huge gaming family but 9 times out of 10 my children will pick riding their bikes, playing football in the park or going out as a family over computers games and I believe that's because they have a lot of free use of the computer. I believe that if its seen as a "one off" or as a "treat" they will choose that over trips outside and that's where the problems start.

I completely understand that not everyone agrees with my views and I don't expect everyone to, quite frankly it would be very boring if everyone did. I just get feed up with always hearing about how damaging and terrible it is and I think it's about time we prove these people that it's not all bad.

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