I'm not a parent, but I do have two nephews, and I do have to agree with the article in that with the oldest one who picks up on things, I've found myself having to mute my gameplay when he walks into the room if I'm playing something not exactly meant for him. Perhaps I'm still warping his mind by letting him watch me kill innocents in games like Hitman or Saint's Row, but I'll be if I let him hear a curse word - mainly because I know he can't/won't go kill someone at his age, but oh will he same some words.

From the article:

Every gaming parent eventually faces the dilemma described by Wired columnist Clive Thompson.

What games can your child play, and at what age?

Thompson describes switching off Gears of War when his fifteen-month old son entered the room. But the experience left him wondering:

Gamers like me have spent years railing against ill-informed parents and politicians who’ve blamed games for making kids violent, unimaginative, fat or worse. But now we’re in a weird position: We’re the first generation that is young enough to have grown up playing games, but old enough to have kids.

So it turns out that, whoops, now we’ve got to make sober calls about what sort of entertainment is good or bad for our children. And what, precisely, are we deciding? I started making calls to my gamer posse find out.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com