Talking to your children about video games

As the video game industry matures, parents are going to have to learn how to talk to their kids about the birds,
the bees, and the sniper rifle in the middle of the map you need an invisibility power up to obtain safely. As it stands, the first generations of obsessive gamers are having children, and those children are getting to the age where someone needs to tell them that video games are fantasy, and are not to be recreated in real life – so, who better to get advice from than parents who work in the games industry?

In this 3-page MSNBC article, industry vets discuss how they handle video games in their own households, and how they use the ratings system and also common sense when they choose what is okay for their child to play. If any Joystiq readers out there are looking for a way to tell their 8-year-old son why it is okay for Master Chief to use sticky bombs against his enemies, this might be a great place to start.

[Thanks, SickNic]