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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I manage this by refusing to buy video games. We don’t have them and don’t play them. My kids hate me, but that’s okay. It’s called parenting.[/quote]

Their friends will have them.   [/quote]

Yes, all the kids in school have them. My kids complain, and especially around birthdays and Christmas, that they are the only ones without a Nintendo or an x-box. I do that annoying mom thing of asking them if all their friends jumped off a bridge, would they jump, too. They get annoyed and exasperated and tell me I’m so, so mean, yadda, yadda.

I can’t control my kid from having a play date at someone’s house and playing Mario Bros., but I can stop it from entering my home.

I’m not a high powered businesswoman, but I can negotiate better than a ten year old. No video games in my house. PERIOD.[/quote]

Why are you a killjoy?[/quote]

Because video games are completely optional and starts dopamine seeking behaviors at a very young age. The meaning of life isn’t to chase dopamine rushes at every opportunity. [/quote]

So does running, sports, shopping, anything that feels good to you.   [/quote]

Son's longtime friend has already paid for grad school with their gaming winnings. They attend college, have a social life, are physically active, etc. Yes, I am being intinially vague. And yes, he is an outlier. But the ZERO GAMES UNDER MY ROOF parents are nuts.[/quote]

He’s an outlier re the money but the rest describes most gamers.

Some gamers are lonely isolated and depressed and their games are a respite from pain. Some let it get to be a problem but video games didn’t Create the problems.  The vast majority are kids and adults , mostly male who enjoy playing for many reasons.  Good luck to the middle schoolers who have never even seen a game.[/quote]

Oh please. You have a bad, socially isolating, time wasting habit and are trying justify it.  There is literally NOTHING to be gained from playing video games. Go ahead, do it if you please, but stop trying to act like it’s somehow beneficial, especially to a developing mind. You sound like a pothead yabbering about the benefits of medical marijuana. [/quote]

The problem with saying things like this is that lots of us played games growing up, so we know you're wrong. Growing up I played games that taught me vocabulary, I played games that taught me history, I played games that taught me geography. I first learned the word "raze" from Warcraft II, I learned what a trireme was from Civilization, I learned geography and a lot of vocabulary from Carmen Sandiego, I learned about the four forces of flight from flight simulators, and history from wargames. (History shows up a lot in this because it's an interest of mine and video games were one way I developed that interest.

My kid isn't a big fan of video games, which is great, she's got other interests and thing she wants to do, but I also know what she could get from it. I don't expect this to sway you, you're obviously a zealot with your mind made up, but when we reject your ideas it's because we know better.[/quote]

You sound like my son who’s in high school now and his large vocabulary is more based on cartoon books like Calvin and Hobbes and Foxtrot and other non traditional sources that uses adult language and nuanced humor.   Elementary school books had value for their content but the vocabulary wasn’t as advanced.

He also learned the subjects that you list from video games.  People don’t get that.   My daughter  was doing mythology and my son knew everything about it. I asked how he could remember them all and he said video games.  He also took in a lot from the Simpsons as a kid.   He appreciated The Simpsons satire style .  All the writers have Harvard degrees, a lot of math and physics.  And the Harvard grads wrote the Simpsons video games.  These guys are classic gamers.

He retains information like a sponge, he got a 1560 on SAT, and it didn’t all come from school.  
Sources that many parents who consider themselves “highly educated”, book smart, wouldn’t understand. 
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