Nintendo switch good gift for age 8?
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Anonymous
Any parent who wants this for their kid will simply buy it. If you want to be in s--- with the parents, by all means, buy their kid video games without asking. I can tell you right now any video games bought for my kids would be disappeared and sold for cash at the earliest opportunity. |
Anonymous
| I am curious why people are assuming that this is a gift for someone else's kid, and not OP's own kid? It's a pretty expensive gift to give to someone who isn't your own kid. |
Anonymous
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So many of you desperately want to believe that video games are a source of the devil. I’m not sure why.
This is a detailed studio done that involved over 5,000 kids in at least a two year span. They found IQ point increase of about 2.5 points that was based on the kids' performance on tasks that included reading comprehension, visual-spatial processing, and a task focused on memory, flexible thinking, and self-control. That sounds like a logical conclusion if you think about it wiithout prejudice. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11341-2 THE IMPAST OF DIGITAL MEDIA ON CHILDREN’S INTELLIGENCE WHILE CONTROLLING FOR GENETIC DIFFERENCES IN COGNITION AND SOCIOECONOMIC BACK. THESE ARE PIECES OF THE ARTICLE BUT ITS WORTH READING THE WHOLE THING. We analyzed 9855 children from the USA who were part of the ABCD dataset with measures of intelligence at baseline (ages 9–10) and after two years. At baseline, time watching (r = − 0.12) and socializing (r = − 0.10) were negatively correlated with intelligence, while gaming did not correlate. After two years, gaming positively impacted intelligence (standardized β = + 0.17), but socializing had no effect. This is consistent with cognitive benefits documented in experimental studies on video gaming. Our focus here is on the impact of screen time on intelligence: the ability to learn effectively, think rationally, understand complex ideas, and adapt to new situations. Intelligence is one of the most important and well-studied psychological traits and encompasses multiple cognitive processes: attention, working memory, spatial manipulation, processing speed, reasoning, reading comprehension, long-term memory, and others. Research so far shows mixed consequences of screen time on cognitive abilities related to intelligence. Effect sizes typically range from − 0.20 to + 0.20 depending on the study, though there are cases with more extreme values. This picture is further complicated because different types of screen activities might have distinct effects on intelligence. For example, a cross-sectional study found that children who spent more time playing video games (in the high tertile) had a positive association with intelligence compared to low tertile (β = + 0.12). However, children in the high tertile for TV watching (β = − 0.99), video watching (β = − 1.05), and social media (β = − 0.79) had lower measures of cognition compared to children in the low tertile for each variable. Video games seem to be a unique type of digital activity. Empirically, the cognitive benefits of video games have support from multiple observational and experimental studies Their benefits to intelligence and school performance make intuitive sense and are aligned with theories of active learning and the power of deliberate practice. There is also a parallel line of evidence from the literature on cognitive training intervention apps which can be considered a special (lab developed) category of video games and seem to challenge some of the same cognitive processes. Though, like for other digital activities, there are contradictory findings for video games, some with no effects and negative effects. Socioeconomic status and genetics need to be included in the study. The follow-up after two years showed that screen time Socializing had no independent effect on the change in intelligence (p = 0.220). Interestingly, we found a positive effect on the change in intelligence from screen time Watching (β = 0.12, p = 0.047; or 1.8 IQ points) as well as from screen time Gaming (β = 0.17, p = 0.002; or 2.55 IQ points), with more time watching digital videos or playing video games leading to greater gains in intelligence. As explained above, those results already account for the independent effects of cogPGS (non-significant, β = 0.10, p = 0.069) and SES (non-significant, β = − 0.04, p = 0.871) on the change in intelligence. Notably, our longitudinal finding of a positive impact of Gaming on the change in intelligence means that children who played more video games were the ones experiencing the most gains in intelligence after two years. This is evidence of a beneficial causal effect of video games on cognition, and, as described before, is supported by multiple different studies. A parent who keeps their child away from video games is no different than a parent who keeps their child away from sports. Both valuable activities in moderation. I recommend playing some video games with your child once in awhile or at least watch them and ask questions. They will love it. |
Anonymous
| NP. Horrible. |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
| Poop |
Anonymous
None of you parents who are clueless about technology will ever admit that kids who play video games have better social skills, cognitive skills, logical skills, hand-eye coordination, and strategizing not to mention higher IQs than your kids who sit quietly alone reading Harry Potter. Also video game players are better at sports. https://www.engineeringforkids.com/about/news/2021/november/what-soft-skills-do-kids-learn-from-playing-vide/ |
Anonymous
Op here. I am the parent  thank you
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Anonymous
I'm sure my kid in baseball, football, cello and art classes, who I am personally teaching to write cursive, will be miles behind video game kid |
Anonymous
This. Why would a kid who plays a ton of video games be better at XYZ than… a kid who actually spends that time practicing XYZ? Time is a finite quantity unfortunately. One of the biggest problems with these addictive video games, short-form videos etc. is they suck up time that kids would have otherwise spent socializing, reading, playing, practicing their sport or instrument, etc. |
Anonymous
False usually the uncoordinated kids gravitate to video games because they can’t do sports in real life |
Anonymous
Ding ding ding |
Anonymous
Video game nerds are the coolest people around, says video game nerd. |
Anonymous
Yeah, but many prostitutes did your kid beat to death on Grand Theft Auto? |
Anonymous
| Great. Is you want your child hooked to video games |