Well, as I was scrolling through Pinterest I began to read through the screenshots of tumbler posts that they have and I came across one with Game Stop employees and one mother who went to buy a game for her son and didn't know about the rating system. The next day she returns all of his games and his game stations, buys a Wii and some E rates games, and puts them in an X-Box one box.

The employee had explained the rating system to her and all the controversy surrounding the GTA series, and this is the reason why and she stared looking up all the games her son owned.

I don't know how old her son is, but I would guess 10 or 11.

So let's start off with the Mom.

I get that you want to protect your kid, but what you did isn't okay. Your son has logged a shit ton of time into this games, he's become attached to the characters and all of that. I can't imagine the tears as his mother took all of that away, and when she put all of this Wii stuff into a box.

She put what her son did as lying to her.

Now it was her responsibility as a parent to check these games.

I support kids playing video games because they help and some games have great lessons to teach us. Parents, some at least, like to looks at video games as something bad.

My mother for example.

She's one of those people who thinks video games cause violence. She had this friend who's a child psychologist and had the program called Zombie Slayer where she was talking about kids and their relation with video games, and how we were becoming zombies.

She started restricting the time I played games. I got an hour on the computer when I played Minecraft. Once she got me the Xbox One, I got half an hour. In the summer my time is extended to two hours.

Now I don't really sit down and binge play video games any way. But she has fallen into the belief video games aren't that good.

Yet she doesn't check the ratings.

Now I believe that the rating system has gotten a little stricter. Oblivion used to be rated T. Then they found a corpse in the game they thought was a little too graphic. The game would become M rated.

Skyrim probably could have been T rated. But the bloods become high def.

Back to this mother. Some games have options where you can turn gore off. And you as a parent shouldn't just say no to M rated games.

The ESRB puts the reasons for why the game is rated that way on the package.

I'm going to reference a video Gameranx put other maybe two years ago directed at parents of gamers. They do say to not buy M rated games for your children all the time, but they ask that you talk to your kids about the contents of the game.

This mother should have said to her some that she didn't like what he was playing. Now she probably did say that, but she needed to understand what her son had invested his time in. She should have gone through her sons piles of games looking at the rating and talking about them, then deciding what's appropriate.

I don't think her son was super young, but there were some video games he might have had that he shouldn't have been playing.

My fathers a little more relaxed, and my mothers more up tight.

When it comes to games my father has the more sane opinion and he started giving me his old games he no longer played. I started off with Oblivion and I loved it. I still love, it and I still suck at it, but he gave me that and trusted me with it.

He held back on Dragon Age, but a year later I got to play it. I still play all the games and my mother trusts me enough. I still don't do certain things out of respect for her, and I listen to my father when he tells me that I can't play something.

As a parent you should talk to your children about your games. Games aren't a source of evil.

Like all forms of media... hell art, somethings were made that probably shouldn't have been, but you need to look past that.

If her son was younger, she should have put those games aside for some time and told him when he's older.

You shouldn't have gotten rid of all of that stuff, because you were irresponsible as a parent too.

There were two forms f this. The mother and her son if her were younger.

He might go to a friends house and be able to play it, he can watch let's plays on the internet.

Now I really can't rip her apart more because I don't know her sons name. But she could have very easily bought a family game night game or a LEGO game and put family settings on the XBox.

I will admit that my opinion may be skewed. I mean, I played the first act of Gears of War with my father. I've played games with him before and all of that. But society needs to become more accepting of things like this.

I will also say this, the one thing I like about this story is that she didn't get that kid GTA.

Also, my cat plays video games with me.