Advice to parents: Know your video games
Moms and dads, crack your knuckles, stretch your wrists and hunker down in front of the television or computer monitor -- it's time to confront the monsters, villains and other baddies lurking in your children's video games.
Craig Anderson, an Iowa State University psychologist, says parents need to do more than consider a game's age-based rating before putting it into the hands of children. They actually need to play the game, he says, or watch as it's demonstrated.
"If you have a child who is going to be playing a lot of video games, as a parent you need to be paying very close attention to what's in the game," he says.
