Question.. while I'm here

Does anyone who plays in the adult grid have young children that play on the teen? I have a 10 year old who has been itching to give it a try. I'm a bit leary of online worlds for kids with all the nuts in the world these days. That and if I allow my 10 year old.. will his 8 and 5 year old brothers beg me to insanity to play as well. Hmm. I'm wondering if you have children, how is it. Is it good for a boy at that age range? Is it a fun and safe envoirnment for a kid to have fun in? Has your child had any problems there etc? Thanks for anything u can share with me!!

My 13 year old tried the teen grid for a while and hated it. He's used to Guild Wars, SWG and WoW. And to be honest, it's for teens and not 10 or younger. There is a lot of adult-like behavior and such going on that you may not want your kids exposed to.

sounds like a no no to me. I shutter to think of the twisted bits of misinformation that could be poured onto a young child in a free for all with teenage hormones. But then, I'm the type who gets annoyed seeing little kids in R reated horror movies too. Just saying, innocence is a hard thing to try to regain. I'd stick to something I could monitor with a young spongelike mind under my protection.

Well, my previous roommate's son introduced us to SL actually. He's turned into a pretty good scripter for a 10 year old (he might be like 12 by now. Check my SL age! ).

From what I remember they turn it off at 10 or 11pm PST or something like that which I think is a good idea.

Since the whole place is PG I think they keep a decent watch on what goes on in there. The way my old roommate's kid is, if there was major trouble to get into he would definitely have found it by now!

One thing my roommate did for a while was go in with him as her own character (I know it's not with the TOS but she lived 4 hours away from him so she did what she could to spend time with him). She didn't really talk to other people so she wouldn't get in trouble but she got to meet his SL friends and see what types of things he was doing. I think that was a really good thing both for their relationship but also so she could make sure he wasn't going into dangerous territory!

All my personal experience of the Teen Grid has been over the kid's shoulder when he was visiting and wanted to show me stuff he was making.

Nothing is better for a kid than running around outside and riding bikes and stuff, though! Can't let the kid get like most of US on here!

Unless you're able to very closely monitor everything he does, I wouldn't allow it.

It's not about what happens on the Teen Grid that I would worry about.

Within a fairly short time some of his new "friends" will share their adventures on the Adult Grid and he'll likely have an alt you don't know about that's visiting adult clubs and owns a couple slaves .

There are things that go on in SL that totally surprised me (10 was a looong time ago) and there is no way I would take any chance of my pre-teen being exposed to them.

The bottom line is that kids that age are curious and especially curious about the forbidden.

Let him play a game that is designed to protect young minds and doesn't require you to install a key logger to make sure he's not talking to someone about dolcett.

Thank you all for your information. I will stick to the general census and hold off on him. When he goes to his fathers house he's allowed to play WoW. I'm not really keen on that, but I cant control what that man does, couldnt while we were married.. oh well. I know how "rated" things can get on the adult grid even on PG sims. He is very impressional and I'll definatly want to keep him cute and innocent for as long as I can. He has a bike and cub scout friends he can play with instead of playing in a computer world. He's content with that, why fix it if it's not broke! Thanks again everyone!!