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How about a kinnect? He can still at while being active. My little girl is just starting on hers.
I don't set a fixed limit on The Boy's gaming time, and I don't see a need to do so.
He is 8 years old. He gets straight A's, runs track, plays baseball, football, basketball, & swims in the pool when weather permits, is in boy scouts, and is willing to drop the controller to build legos, or play board games with mom & dad any time we ask.
He also think's it's fun to learn new aspects of MS Word & Excel, and I've started him on the tutorial DBs in Access, all of which he considers 'playing Office'.
If he wants to game & talk with his cousins/friends via xbox live for 4 hours a day, who am I to stop him?
Am I blessed? Damn right...
Am I bragging? Damn right...
edit... we also monitor all game play b/c it occurs in our living room. He also needs me to input a p-word to add new friends to chat with (again, cousins & classmates only). Should his grades suffer, then we'll set a limit, but until then... He's free to play as hard as he likes when his work is done.
Well my daughter just cured AIDS.
When I was a kid, I had videogames in the house, but I NEVER played for 8 hours.
It depends on the child. My daughter has been gaming since 3. She is 17 and graduating this year and been accepted to college and wants to be a dr. She played volleyball, flag football and finished as the #6 rated female shooter in the state for rifalry.
As long as they are active and exercise i dont think its a problem. And she can whip most boys gaming.
Great kid....with excellent grades. No problems from him at all. Maybe I'm overthinking it.....maybe all of his friends are constantly on the game(s) too....I just think he is too consumed with playing the video games.
I'll just try to cut him back some and encourage more outside time. A lot of the problem has been the weather.....either rainy or cold. Hopefully, my "problem" corrects itself when spring arrives.
Thanks for the responses.
While convincing for a three-day period, the study can’t address the bigger question about what happens after weeks and months of cumulative play. Paradoxically, it’s possible that more play time might eventually trigger something University of Virginia social psychologist Timothy Wilson calls “ordinization,” which is essentially what happens when we adapt to a new experience. Short-term (in this case, three-day) aggression may very well dissipate over time as the players adapt to the style of play and the outward effects level off.
People who played action-based video and computer games made decisions 25% faster than others without sacrificing accuracy, according to a study. Indeed, the most adept gamers can make choices and act on them up to six times a second—four times faster than most people, other researchers found. Moreover, practiced game players can pay attention to more than six things at once without getting confused, compared with the four that someone can normally keep in mind, said University of Rochester researchers. The studies were conducted independently of the companies that sell video and computer games.
The vast majority of the research did not directly compare gaming with hours of other intense, mental activities such as solving math equations. Almost any computer game appears to boost a child's creativity, researchers at Michigan State University's Children and Technology Project reported in November.
A three-year study of 491 middle school students found that the more children played computer games the higher their scores on a standardized test of creativity—regardless of race, gender, or the kind of game played. The researchers ranked students on a widely used measure called the Torrance Test of Creativity, which involves such tasks as drawing an "interesting and exciting" picture from a curved shape on a sheet of paper, giving the picture a title, and then writing a story about it. The results were ranked by seven researchers for originality, length, and complexity on a standardized three-point scale for each factor, along with detailed questionnaires.
In contrast, using cellphones, the Internet, or computers for other purposes had no effect on creativity, they said.
Surgeons who had played video games in the past for more than three hours per week made 37 percent fewer errors [in the Top Gun course], were 27 percent faster and scored 42 percent better overall than surgeons who never played video games. Current video game players made 32 percent fewer errors, were 24 percent faster and scored 26 percent better overall than their non-player colleagues
It's a shame his old man is a putz.
It depends on the child. My daughter has been gaming since 3. She is 17 and graduating this year and been accepted to college and wants to be a dr. She played volleyball, flag football and finished as the #6 rated female shooter in the state for rifalry.
As long as they are active and exercise i dont think its a problem. And she can whip most boys gaming.