And now for our non-news break of the day.
Dutch researchers have found that telling kids something isn't appropriate makes them want it more. Quick, alert Tipper Gore!
The study in this month's issue of Pediatrics shows the kids - aged seven to seventeen - clamored for "forbidden fruit," especially in relation to violent and mature-rated video games. Yes, as young as seven, these kids were lustfully sinful.
Weren't you? Heck, aren't you? The surest way to convince my three-year-old to start eating her veggies is to tell her she can't have anymore because they're just for Mommy and Daddy. Tell her she can't have candy, and she's in full puppy-dog-eyed- lower-lip-extended-mode.It's the same thing that makes Cadbury creme eggs taste sooooo good when you're on a diet.
So why would video games be any different? Or music? Or movies?
The trick is in convincing kids what they can have is the good stuff. In the immortal words of Mick Jagger, "You can't always gets what want, but if you try sometimes, you just mind find (you just might find) you get what you neeeeeed." Don't worry, the Stones pass the ratings test!
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