You are making a mountain out of a molehill. This is not me saying parents shouldn't game or watch porn or do drugs or even beat their spouses if that's what they really wanna do. This is not a moral dilemma about the merits of having kids and having a life. This is me saying if you have a concern about your kid seeing the content of one particular game and you absolutely cannot keep them leashed enough to avoid it, then you need to drop that game. Its that simple. I don't know if you need to play shorter sessions, only do it one school nights, or just plain give it up, but there is absolutely no reason you HAVE to play MK.
MK is not the only fighting game, video game, hobby, or thing you can do with your spare time when your kids are around. You will not be taxed or arrested or insulted or even spoken down to if you ever say in a conversation "I gave up MK for my kids". You will probably be applauded.
If you've really already sacrificed everything you already said for your kids sake, one more game isn't going to kill you.
You see though and I am not trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill either. I was simply presenting how it is that my child managed to expose himself to these kinds of games. You literally are telling me that I have to give up this game, because my son can possibly be exposed to it. I am very aware of what my children do and I do not even touch these games or even play games for that matter while they are awake and running around. I spend that time with them, because I haven't had much time in the past to spend with them, considering my former military career and the fact that the wife and I had to live separately for a year just to support them while the wife finished her military time. So, I highly value what time I get with them everyday and when they go to bed I get my game on. I run a tight ship with my children, but they are kids, they are Chaos incarnate and will end up doing things they shouldn't be doing regardless of how strict and secure you are with them.
To kids its the allure of why they can't play these games, its the whole Daddy and Mommy say its bad and now I wanna do it even more. Which is why in many cases I will simply expose these things to them in a mild way to get the point why we say its bad and you are too young to get it. I recall when one day my son did his sneaky trick while I was playing Dark Souls one night (another reason why I always wait until I know they are straight passed out before I game now) and then he kept begging and begging me to let him try and play it, because he knew he would just rock at it. I eventually despite my wife's protests, just said fine lets see you do it. I let him make his character watch the intro movie and sure enough once he ran into the Asylum Demon, not only was he afraid of the monster, but he gave up after losing 3 times and declared the game bad and he won't touch it again. ( I know he likely will one day though)
With MK9 he saw Mileena leap onto the screen and that as I said before has managed to keep away form these games .
BTW when I mentioned drugs and alcohol, I was referring to how a parent really should consider sacrificing that for the sake of their children and when I mention alcohol I mean straight alcohol abuse, not the occasional drinker.
