{"id":18493,"date":"2025-04-14T11:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/a-man-approached-him-parents-describe-their-childrens-roblox-problems\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:37:22","slug":"a-man-approached-him-parents-describe-their-childrens-roblox-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/a-man-approached-him-parents-describe-their-childrens-roblox-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A man approached him\u2019: parents describe their children\u2019s Roblox problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People tell how their children have been negatively affected by the gaming platform or have come to serious harm<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/14\/risks-children-roblox-deeply-disturbing-researchers\">Risks to children playing Roblox \u2018deeply disturbing\u2019, say researchers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David, a 46-year-old father from Calgary, Canada,<strong> <\/strong>initially did not see a problem when his 10-year-old son<strong> <\/strong>started to play on Roblox, the platform of user-generated games and virtual environments that has exploded in popularity in recent years, particularly among younger gamers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw it as a way for him to maintain a level of social interaction during the Covid lockdowns,\u201d David said, assuming his son was using the platform\u2019s chat function only to speak with friends he knew personally.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/14\/parents-describe-children-roblox-problems\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a69195afa0650689d611e59fdbb656ef97a3fbe4\/0_249_5899_3540\/master\/5899.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=edea94018f203109b642e030414bf78e\" title=\"\u2018A man approached him\u2019: parents describe their children\u2019s Roblox problems\" \/>People tell how their children have been negatively affected by the gaming platform or have come to serious harm<br \/>\nRisks to children playing Roblox \u2018deeply disturbing\u2019, say researchers<br \/>\nDavid, a 46-year-old father from Calgary, Canada, initially did not see a problem when his 10-year-old son started to play on Roblox, the platform of user-generated games and virtual environments that has exploded in popularity in recent years, particularly among younger gamers.<br \/>\n\u201cWe saw it as a way for him to maintain a level of social interaction during the Covid lockdowns,\u201d David said, assuming his son was using the platform\u2019s chat function only to speak with friends he knew personally. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People tell how their children have been negatively affected by the gaming platform or have come to serious harm Risks to children playing Roblox \u2018deeply disturbing\u2019, say researchers David, a 46-year-old father from Calgary, Canada, initially did not see a problem when his 10-year-old son started to play on Roblox, the platform of user-generated games &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/a-man-approached-him-parents-describe-their-childrens-roblox-problems\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018A man approached him\u2019: parents describe their children\u2019s Roblox problems<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}