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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son played simple computer math  games at 18 months.   At 3 we bought him Nintendo with Mario games that he loved.   He plays Mario Go Carts with his sister who only likes that game.   There’s a group of his nerdy friends play video games but they do other things.

As long as your child isn’t isolated in the basement for hours alone or gets addicted and can’t stop, kind of
like girls who are addicted to social media, I don’t see an issue.  [/quote]

Holy mackerel. You can’t be serious.

You are just asking for problems. [/quote]

Yes. I’m a PP (not the one you quoted) and my girls are 18 months and 3 years. They are so busy running around and being creative. The idea of little ones their age in front of video games makes me so sad. They deserve so much more. [/quote]

In other words not showing any signs of a high intellect?   Just kidding but don’t be ridiculous, it’s a long day and there are many hours to go be running around and “be creative” whatever that means.   We would walk to the library every day and they had a computer.   He saw some kids that looked about five playing games.  He wanted to so he played the math games created for slightly older kids. Big deal.   He loved his Mario game at three years old and would play it after  preschool.    He never had a problem leaving it to go do something else.   All the tech entrepreneurs played video games as a child.  Some kids aren’t interested that’s ok too.

Video games a just like any activity.  There are good ones and bad ones. There are obsessions that need to be controlled.  But most have video games as one of many things they do on a given day.

My son beginning programs in math was self started.  Not like so many parents signing their kids up for online math tutors.    
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