{"id":3788,"date":"2010-01-14T09:58:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2010-01-14T09:58:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:58:57","slug":"how-much-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/14\/how-much-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How much time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob &amp; Carol ask: <em>What is an acceptable amount of time per day for a youth to play Call of Duty modern warfare per day or week. And regardless of Title what are the console\/keyboard utilization limits per day\/week?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Good question,<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to cop out but my main answer to both &#8211; because they&#8217;re pretty much the same question &#8211; is &#8220;As long as you are comfortable with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Re: Call of Duty Modern Warfare. I don&#8217;t believe children are like tea, in that they&#8217;re not immersed in a violent game and growing more and more rich and &#8230; hmm, I prefer coffee and&#8230; sorry&#8230; what I mean is, playing CoD for 3 hours today and 1 hour tomorrow isn&#8217;t that different than 1 hour every day.<\/p>\n<p>Re: Keyboard time.\u00a0 You probably mean social networking. Look at this like the telephone of old, I know I was on it hours per day!<\/p>\n<p>Now, what do I do?\u00a0 Generally Henry gets about 1.5 hours per day for gaming. Maggie gets the same for watching TV on YouTube or gaming. Both have DSs and usually play a bit before bed after homework and reading. Add in some family game time and we come to about 2 hours per day and maybe 18 per week total.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t differentiate between violent games or non-violent games (I don&#8217;t allow most M and T games in my house cause the kids are 9 and 6).<\/p>\n<p>So, my answer is, 1-2 hours per day tops for both activities.\u00a0 One good idea is the give the option to choose how much time for each kind of entertainment. 1 hr of gaming = 1 hr of social networking. That way they have some empowerment to schedule and plan their own time.<\/p>\n<p>TV time can figure into the above but my family is more flexible about that. Maybe an additional hour depending on the show.<\/p>\n<p>Does that help?<\/p>\n<p>Hope so.<\/p>\n<p>GamerDad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob &amp; Carol ask: What is an acceptable amount of time per day for a youth to play Call of Duty modern warfare per day or week. And regardless of Title what are the console\/keyboard utilization limits per day\/week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-askgamerdad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}