Bristolians Discuss: What is your take on kids and gaming?

Today we chat to locals about how they strike the balance between fun and safety?

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00:00What's your take on kids and gaming? How do you think you can strike the balance between

00:06fun and obviously the safety team?

00:07Oh my god, it's so scary. I mean, I wouldn't let my kids have any social media these days

00:13and I wouldn't let them go on any gaming sites or anything. It's so scary. I think especially

00:17with all this like Stranger Danger stuff, it's horrible, isn't it? I wouldn't, I would

00:21obviously monitor it. If I had it my way, I'd probably wait till they're about 13 or 14

00:26before I gave them any social media. I think back in the day, we didn't really have it.

00:30I think my parents would just monitor all my social media and stuff. So yeah, especially

00:35with gaming as well, I wouldn't, no.

00:37But I do feel that I was lucky and as far as when our kids were young, the social media didn't

00:45seem to be so infested with predators.

00:48I mean, I'm too out of touch. Again, I'm too old. My grandchildren play all kinds of fun

00:54games. They appear to have a nice time. So, you know, I'm not too worried about gaming.

00:59We are?

00:59Yeah.

01:00Yeah.

01:00Well...