TPP 027: 12-year-old Asher Talks About Whether or Not Parents Should Ban Certain Video Games
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
That's one way that it can go if you ban something. It can go well. Yeah. That is not however what I think is going to happen if you ban Minecraft because Minecraft is an amazing game.
So what's the other way it can go then?
The other way it can go is you trying to stamp it out actually makes it stronger.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
In what way?
Just like what you can
have you want more. Yes,
exactly. Like apparently in horrible histories. Whatever. Anyways, they were talking about Scottish culture and the English tried to stamp out Scottish culture and instead they made it stronger. Mm. Yeah, what doesn't what doesn't kill your love of Minecraft makes it stronger.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reaver, and today's episode features another conversation with my 12-year-old son Asher. Asher and I recorded a few episodes focused on the wonderful topic of screen time, and today is a variation on that theme. I know that sometimes conflict over computer games can lead to a parent wanting to totally pull the plug on a game, or maybe even screen time altogether. And as you'll hear in this episode, we once actually did ban a game, Clash of Plants, back when Asher was eight, because the fallout on our family when things didn't go well just wasn't worth it.
So that's what we're looking at today, inspired by a post I read on a parenting listserv in which a mother at wits end was about to take the drastic measure of completely banning Minecraft in her home. We'll also get into the world of Minecraft a bit from a kid's perspective, as Ash will talk about the scenarios that can be particularly challenging. So if you're someone who doesn't quite get what your kid is doing in that pixelated world, you may also learn a few things. No surprise here, but Asher has some strong opinions about this subject matter. Oh, and one more thing. Before we get into our conversation, we're looking to answer your questions for upcoming episodes of the Tilt Parenting Podcast, specifically the Asher episodes.
So if there's something that you or your kids would like to hear from Asher on, please send me an email at Debbie at TiltParenting.com with your ideas or suggestions. And we'll try to include them. Thanks so much. And as always, thank you for listening. To learn more about this podcast and tilt, the revolution for parents raising differently wired kids, visit www.tiltparenting.com. Hey Asher. Hey mom. Today we wanna have a conversation kind of about Minecraft and kind of about screen time. But our conversation is stemming because of
What is the central question about banning Minecraft that sparked this episode?
A thread that came up on a Facebook group that I'm a member of. This is a Facebook I notice you're not naming names. I'm not gonna name names. This is the naming of names. This is a Facebook group that's for moms. It's got thousands and thousands of people in it. And This conversation, I I won't read it the whole comment, but it starts with Minecraft is driving me crazy. Ah Sacrilage. And basically the gist of the thread is that her ten year old son is a kind, sweet child, but Minecraft But Minecraft turns him into um someone that she says she doesn't recognize. And they have tried planning time, they've tried limits, they've tried all different things, but they haven't been able to figure out how to make it work.
And so she thinks it's a great game, but she does she uses
I'll say it's a great game.
She uses the word evil because I think it my hunch is More sacrifice. My hunch is that it's been created a lot of stress in their lives. And so what she says is I may just ban it. Still more sacrilege. So this post got over 40 comments. So it definitely struck a nerve and a lot of moms were jumping on adding their two cents and some people were for banning, some were against banning. And I mentioned it to you because I thought it was interesting and I knew that you would have a really strong point of view about the whole concept of A, whether Minecraft is evil.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:42
2
What is the central question about banning Minecraft that sparked this episode?
2:42–8:42
3
How did Asher describe the first challenges he faced while playing Minecraft?
8:42–11:48
4
What are the main problems with multiplayer servers that Asher finds frustrating?
11:48–16:26
5
How does Asher explain the two possible outcomes of banning a video game?
16:26–19:37
Speakers
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