violent games

When I was a child, my parents prohibited me from owning fake guns or video game systems. They limited the amount of "screen time" that I could have per day, (meaning television or computer), and censored the things that I was allowed to watch. It is not verifiable if this had an effect on the fact that I am a very compassionate person nowadays, and I don't like fake guns, and I don't like violence, but it makes for a good argument as to how parents should raise their children.

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Rock paper scissors is very popular here. Some students play a variation on it where they play it and then put one of their hands in a pile in the center, like as if they were getting ready to do a cheer getting ready to start a sports game or something. So the ultimate winner, I'm not sure how this is decided, gets to slam their hand down on the ones in the center and try to break them apart. Sounds violent huh. Yes, just before my class started, at the end of lunch, some 1st grade Middle School students were playing this game. And then, the next thing that I knew, there was some yelping and "teacher! teacher!!" sounds. One student had broken his arm. I'm pretty sure that he was in a small state of shock, as he was very calm about the fact that his arm was crooked. Now, the other students, some of them were not ok. They were shaking and crying. And my co-teacher had to go to the hospital with the student so I was left to take care of 30 13 year-olds by myself. It wasn't all that bad, really, because most of them were a little shaken up the whole time that one of their classmates had just broken their arm in front of them. Yeah, I guess these things happen to young students, but ummmmmm I never broke my arm like that when I was a young student. I was always rollerblading or moshing or something.