I’ve been reading a lot of blogs lately about how parents are making there children delete Maple Story for the following reasons (some may not apply):

– It’s a Virus
– It Pollutes our Minds
– Not a good way to spend our time
– Internet Predators
– Gets in the way of school/home work
– We spend endless hours training and looking like a zombie after we level to our ideal Level
– We don’t get enough sleep.
– We start to dress like our avatars X_x Or talk “l33t” or write “l33t”

And the list goes on.

Well, our parents may or may not know that it’s our new way of communicating and being an ass when we can’t do that in real life. It’s some sort of hobby every child likes yet it does get bothersome to see one’s child play and play without stopping. And in the end the children look like zombie with the lack of sleep and proper balanced meals… But I’m just speaking for myself.

The Mothers:

“What we do, is for the best” maybe in her eyes perhaps she sees that you’re just wasting your time with a game that you obviously love to play (>.> Because you spend so much time and busting your ass to level). But mothers feels that you should be more productive with your time like go out side and “verb, it’s what you do” or some corny crap like that. . .

Either way, mothers, and parents alike, are just looking out for the best of US, and the best of their really (so-called) expensive computers. So they have the right to worry because they don’t know what is going on between the child and the computer and in the game. So cut them some slack.

The Mothers, a possible solution: Let your parent see that you’re playing a game and that it’s online community is friendly and that the game is being monitored by GM’s. Go as far as to show her the web site where you got it from. Also it brings up some educational things. You have to remember how much you need. How much money you need to buy things and how to invest and use Ebay X_x As in BasilMarket…. but those are just my own little thoughts.

Explain the reasons and benefits (if I dare call it that) about the game and how much fun it is when you play and make new friends.

The Strict Parents:

Ok, so some parents may not be easy to come through with “Mom/Dad This is the game I like to play” and it wont be easy to convience them to play. Try reasoning with them. Make some sort of chart of schedule of what times you get to play with some days. Also try to BS (or even TRY) to comprimise a solution where you and your parents could come in good terms with you playing maple story and also be to do other things that will please them as well.

That way everyone wins.

Overall, just cut your parents some slack. Sure they get on your nerves and such and your cursing them under your breath but you got to realize, they worry about you and especially with the TV ad’s about those online Predators…. parents can get freaked out more so than usual. So can you really blame them for being over protective?

I’m not a parent but I work with children and I can understand why parents do what they do…

So I just thought I’ll share my thoughts about it.

-Aaru