Parents opinion on your gaming?

Hey everyone! Well I just wanted to know what everyones parents think of your gaming habits. Im sure we've all heard the "All you do is play that game all day" line, even when it's 100 percent not true.

Heres my story, I play competetive soccer (the kind where you play for your city, and have to actually try out and make the team, not like where you just pay and play), im pretty popular at school (won class clown at prom), im really into tuner cars and modifying my own (92 prelude SR), and I have a great gf who I spend tons of time with. NOW im sorry for telling you my life story but I need to so I can get the point across.

Now, alot of the time I'll do a bunch of stuff during the day, I'll come home, fire up some H3/COD4/Gears and jump on live, play for 1-4 hours and in the middle of it, my parents will come home from work and I'll get that "All you do all day is play video games, why don't you go outside". Yes I get this line ESPECIALLY when my parents know about my life aha

So are your parents the same way? It's really irretating to hear this over and over again.

I don't live with them anymore, but when I did I got full support.

It was my only hobby and they encouraged it.

They don't care. They might just ask me how much i'm spending from time to time

They hate it. Especially when I try to convince them to let me buy Halo or something.

I'm outside for most of the year, except Fall. Winter I have Street hocket, Spring I have Roller hockey and Summer I have the pool. They need to stop complaining.

I don't live with my parents anymore, but when I did they usually supported my gaming. Unless I wanted to play when they wanted to watch the news.

My mum actually loved to watch me play, and still loves it when I come home sometimes and play. She knows a whole lot about Zelda, Super Mario and Sonic, but never really enjoyed Final Fantasy and the other RPG's. I think it's kind of sweet:) I don't know anyone else who's got a mum who knows so much about video-games!

When i was a kid i used to play video games for hours! Sometimes on the weekend i would stay in all day playing a game. The way my parents thought was i could be out getting into trouble so its not the end of the world if i want to stay in and play some games. I was like you, popular in school. Played Ice Hockey and Baseball growing up, had a lot of friends. During the day we would ride our bikes but once 5 or 6 came around and i was in that would be it. I would just fire up my NES or SNES and play for hours!

Now im a parent and i still see nothing wrong with video games. I think parents view of games will change soon seeing as all us gamers from the 80's and 90's are now having kids of our own so obvisouly being gamers ourselves we support it!