One of my favourite sites on the Internet is WhatTheyPlay.com – I’m a big fan of John Davison and the work he’s been doing to educate non-gamer parents on the pitfalls (pun totally intended) of raising gaming children.
Look, personally I don’t have any problems with someone who’s 15 or 16 playing a round of Halo 3 or Gears of War but I don’t think a nine year old should be playing something along the lines of GTA4. What kills me is when I see young children walk into EB games with their Mom, the Mom asks for GTA4, the clerk outlines in explicit detail why the game is rated M, the Mom gets all embarrassed because she realizes that her child lied to her and even worse they’re in public AND THEN CAVES AND BUYS THE GAME WHEN SHE DOESN’T WANT TO!
Fellow parents!! Don’t get suckered! Read WhatTheyPlay!
Anyway, we’re getting off topic. The particularily cool thing about WhatTheyPlay right now is that my better half has contributed to one of their new feature articles called “Real Moms“. Am I excited to see Maranda’s name along with such famous names as Perrin Kaplan? Hell YES! You go girl 
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I managed an EB for almost 2 years and we had tonnes of irresponsible parents come in for GTA and other unsuitable M rated games all the time. I had kids hate me & swear at me for telling their parents about the ratings & content.
I wished I was allowed to deny the sale of the game to the parent because I would have done it several times and I even told parents that.
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