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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1107315" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>I never had a moment of trouble from my parents (heck, my mother bought me the books for various Xmases). But then, one was Methodist, the other Catholic. So I never had to put up with any ideas of singular religious 'truths' in the house. Diversity of this sort can definitely be a good thing when it comes to being an independent thinker.</p><p></p><p>One friend, whose family was Mormon, did have to give up gaming by parental directive, though I think they were a bit reluctant about it since they had never had a problem with it before. They did it mainly because their pastor said that it would be a good idea.</p><p></p><p>Another friend did have his books taken away for a while because of bad grades. I can't see that as being the same degree of inappropriate as taking them away because of misguided religious zeal. In this case, they were trying to enforce some homework diligence. Trouble was, it didn't help much. Being a good student, his father came up to me with the problem to see if I could help motivate my friend. He acknowledged that taking away the D&D privileges probably wouldn't help because my friend would sit and read other books rather than do homework. And if those were taken away, he'd just sit looking out the window and think about stuff. And his father was pretty much right. My friend was intelligent, creative, but just wasn't too diligent about doing his school work. </p><p></p><p>Ultimately, I think one of the reasons my parents didn't mind (and even kind of encouraged it by being pretty lenient about when I got home and stuff) was because I was getting top grades anyway AND because I was off gaming, they pretty much knew where I was and what I was up to. I mean, really, it wasn't like I was off knocking over 7-11s like some other kids I knew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 1107315, member: 3400"] I never had a moment of trouble from my parents (heck, my mother bought me the books for various Xmases). But then, one was Methodist, the other Catholic. So I never had to put up with any ideas of singular religious 'truths' in the house. Diversity of this sort can definitely be a good thing when it comes to being an independent thinker. One friend, whose family was Mormon, did have to give up gaming by parental directive, though I think they were a bit reluctant about it since they had never had a problem with it before. They did it mainly because their pastor said that it would be a good idea. Another friend did have his books taken away for a while because of bad grades. I can't see that as being the same degree of inappropriate as taking them away because of misguided religious zeal. In this case, they were trying to enforce some homework diligence. Trouble was, it didn't help much. Being a good student, his father came up to me with the problem to see if I could help motivate my friend. He acknowledged that taking away the D&D privileges probably wouldn't help because my friend would sit and read other books rather than do homework. And if those were taken away, he'd just sit looking out the window and think about stuff. And his father was pretty much right. My friend was intelligent, creative, but just wasn't too diligent about doing his school work. Ultimately, I think one of the reasons my parents didn't mind (and even kind of encouraged it by being pretty lenient about when I got home and stuff) was because I was getting top grades anyway AND because I was off gaming, they pretty much knew where I was and what I was up to. I mean, really, it wasn't like I was off knocking over 7-11s like some other kids I knew. [/QUOTE]
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