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How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games. (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 year ago by sylverstream@lemmy.nz to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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My 9yo daughter has a tablet with family link, so I can monitor what apps she wants to install. As the garbage games are mostly at the top free, she keeps asking for games that I reject, in most cases because it's riddled with ads.

The Play Store has a section for kids, which seems to have better quality apps and games. Also thinking to subscribe to Play Pass so she can try out paid games.

Any other tips? Especially how to find good free / paid games. I don't mind paying for good games.

Also I'm aware I can block ads using eg Pi Hole (already doing that) or sometimes putting it on airplane mode, but that's not my point. I want to find and support quality games.

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[–] sculd@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One thing you might need to pay attention to is your daughter would want to play the same game as their friends do.

You may want to reject games base on your criteria, but if your daughter feels isolated because she can't play with her friends, that could be a bigger problem.

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not too worried about that tbh. It's the same thing that when she gets a mobile phone it will be very limited, only call, text and messaging. No social media until she's 18. Thanks though for checking.

[–] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good luck. We tried that rule too, it has led to so much stress and fighting. I'm certainly not suggesting to not try and hold the line. I'm just wishing you luck with it.

[–] can@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I don't even see how it's possible to stop someone from using social media until they're 18 unless they truly don't want to.

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

After watching The Social Dilemma and seeing that people who worked high up at eg Facebook also didn't want their kids on there, I'm going to try to do the same.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That... seems a bit too extreme, I honestly don't think you can achieve that... unless you get her a dumb phone and assuming she never gets her own by her own means.

Working with your kids to have a decent social media experience? That I can see!

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

With Family Link everything can be locked down.

Yes it may sound extreme but based on The Social Dilemma and presentations at our school from people who did a lot of research into this topic, I'm going to go with their recommendation to keep them off social media until 18. Probably won't be easy indeed.