On occasions when she wasn't allowed to use her screen time she became intolerably angry. She was frequently sullen after using the game and was constantly obsessing over what object she was trying to get/trade and telling me stories about how "this person scammed me". She also started to be more dishonest in her day-to-day interactions. You can report people who are inappropriate." and I decided to give it a try because she is getting older.Īlmost immediately I started noticing problems.my daughter, who has always respected the recreational time limits we place on her screen time, was routinely going overtime and lying about it. My daughter was very persuasive with the "There are moderators.
We had no problems until we turned on the full chat. My daughter had an AJ account for over a year with only the "Bubble Chat" (you can only send/receive messages from a set list). Unfortunately, there's always bad apples that will spoil the bunch. Animal Jam will be receiving an email from me today but I want others to be aware that this is going on.Īnimal Jam is educational and has the potential for a lot of good learning and fun. I think good has come out of this as it's opened a discussion that is important to have with your kids but I resent that it wasn't on my terms and that it's happening so soon. We've had to have several conversations about sex that I wasn't prepared for at the age of 10. Don't believe me? Google animal jam sex for a whole punch of YouTube videos on the subject. They are asked to sleep and the the other animal jumps up and down on them asking all sorts of inappropriate things like "Is this hard enough" "Oh that's good baby". The "f" word can be written as "phoc", etc.Īs for sex, your child may be invited to a private den party. This is a den where tables with torches or lamp posts have been set up and animals dance on the table. For example, your child might be invited to a "stripped club" aka strip club. How can that be when the site has chat filters and constant moderation? Well, first off, the players have various short hand for swear words. The past week, however, we noticed that she was being exposed to a great deal of foul language and sexual activity on this kid-friendly site. My daughter has been playing animal jam for over a year and we were happy to find a game that seemed safe and where she could indulged her fascination and love of animals.
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