Stopping 7 year old nephew from playing GTAV on Xbox One..
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sparks_E46 said:
So my 7 year old nephew sneaks downstairs at 3am on occasion to play GTAV Online on Xbox One at his parents house. Is there a way to lock him out from that particular game without password protecting the entire console? Cheers.
The simple answer is to surely tell the boy he's not allowed to play it at 3am. (Shouldn't be playing it at all but that's another arguement).Failing that, tell the parents to try taking the power lead to bed with them or the controller.
wjb said:
sparks_E46 said:
So my 7 year old nephew sneaks downstairs at 3am on occasion to play GTAV Online on Xbox One at his parents house. Is there a way to lock him out from that particular game without password protecting the entire console? Cheers.
The simple answer is to surely tell the boy he's not allowed to play it at 3am. (Shouldn't be playing it at all but that's another arguement).Failing that, tell the parents to try taking the power lead to bed with them or the controller.
.You can set up the router to prevent the MAC address of that console from being able to access the internet at specific times - from the console's perspective it'll think the cable to the outside's been cut, while other devices would (theoretically) work fine.
I'd not recommend physical inhibition of the hardware (unplugging it) because 7 year olds are smart enough to plug things in and stupid enough to utterly badger the socket, and too young to pay for the repair.
Taking controllers away would be a plan, I'm sure there's a high shelf/unit somewhere the kid wouldn't even know about (hide them well after bedtime, no witnesses).
Active punishment? Apart from the old fashioned stuff I guess just a total ban on using games consoles for the summer holidays, etc,would work. A few times when I earned "no TV for the rest of this term" type punishments I ended up making a vast amount of airfix kits
I'd not recommend physical inhibition of the hardware (unplugging it) because 7 year olds are smart enough to plug things in and stupid enough to utterly badger the socket, and too young to pay for the repair.
Taking controllers away would be a plan, I'm sure there's a high shelf/unit somewhere the kid wouldn't even know about (hide them well after bedtime, no witnesses).
Active punishment? Apart from the old fashioned stuff I guess just a total ban on using games consoles for the summer holidays, etc,would work. A few times when I earned "no TV for the rest of this term" type punishments I ended up making a vast amount of airfix kits
HTP99 said:
Err, the parents need to be parents; tell him he can't and have a punishment if he does, if he continues then surely the easiest thing to do is to hide the console or power lead.
It’s what I would do, but I’m not his parent and I’m trying to find a solution they’re happy with. I’d just remove the console, all be it a pain in the arse for everyone else that uses it properly. If I had kids I’d like to think they’d not cause me the headache my nephews parents have.sparks_E46 said:
I’ve suggested a ban on all consoles and TV for a few weeks but they are reluctant to do that, for whatever reason. He’s too old for toys so there are none to take away... wiping all his game saves might be an idea.
...not sure about the game save wipes; could be a challenge to get back to same achievement from scratch.As above, if parents asleep, then just set up the router up to shutdown overnight & protect with a password. Xbox One pretty much useless without internet connection.
JonChalk said:
sparks_E46 said:
I’ve suggested a ban on all consoles and TV for a few weeks but they are reluctant to do that, for whatever reason. He’s too old for toys so there are none to take away... wiping all his game saves might be an idea.
...not sure about the game save wipes; could be a challenge to get back to same achievement from scratch.As above, if parents asleep, then just set up the router up to shutdown overnight & protect with a password. Xbox One pretty much useless without internet connection.
I'd be more concerned with the fact he's playing GTA at all. Do they also let him watch 18 rated films?
My son's 6 and I wouldn't dream of letting him near that game.
This issue aside it should be pretty easy to fix. Parental controls or even just lock the accounts out with a password/pin that he doesn't know (I know this is possible on PS but I assume something similar is doable on the Xbox).
My son's 6 and I wouldn't dream of letting him near that game.
This issue aside it should be pretty easy to fix. Parental controls or even just lock the accounts out with a password/pin that he doesn't know (I know this is possible on PS but I assume something similar is doable on the Xbox).
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