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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well it has my 6 yr old devouring the Minecraft books tot learn how to build certain things in the game.   He carries the book everywhere.  He is obsessed though so I restrict it to some weekend use.[/quote]

Anything that encourages a 6 year old boy to carry a book everywhere and read that much is good.  Restricting the actual play time is completely understandable, and it's more likely to make him think through what he wants to do before he sits down to play.

So in short: reading practice and comprehension, critical thinking, spatial reasoning, cooperation and teamwork.  But it's a tool, and any tool can be misused.[/quote]

I agree.  With school, other activities, piano practice, homework and family time together playing board games etc there is just not time during the week for him to spend hours on Minecraft.   Weekends I am fine with but he can't sit there for 5 hours on it.  He has other toys, Legos and siblings to play with and chores so unless I put time limits he would do it from sunup to sundown.   I love the reading that is coming from it...I had no idea.  I took him to a comic book store and asked him what he wanted and he picked a Minecraft book.   His age peers are not as into Minecraft yet but he saw some of the older kids at school with the books and that is how he learned about them.   It is amazing how he can sit an talk for hours about this world he has created.   I play it too sometimes just to learn what he is doing and I can barely get a shelter built while he has learned to build all these complex things and how to fly and other things that he definitely got from the books.   I let him play coding apps on the web and iPad as well.
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