Posted this originally in Tilted Gaming, but this is more of a parenting issue, so I want to see what parents think about this thing.
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The Game Guardian is a device that a parent attaches to their PS2 that does a countdown timer and then shuts the PS2 off.
The link to the device is as below:
http://www.gameguardian.co.uk/pages/home.php
Now, I ask you, gentle readers (with a possible bias), does this lead to more effective parenting, or does this just make it easier for parents to slough off duties to an inanimate object, much in the way a lot of kids were just plopped in front of TVs to act as babysitters?
And the followup question, if people were actually good parents, wouldn't such a tool like this be unecessary?