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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of the highest achieving boys from DS's graduating class at Sidwell were gamers or anything close to it.

We can argue about causation / correlation -- ie, maybe the boys who are teaching themselves multiple instruments, designing experiments for fun, going to culinary school as a teen etc -- are not the sort of young people who would be drawn to staring a screen in a fiction world created by some dude in Menlo Park.

I know that for our household, DS wasn't interested in gaming although we dutifully bought him the correct consoles as gifts without him even asking. They gathered dust. BUT his peers at not-Sidwell elementary school certainly made gaming the center of their social lives. Gaming and soccer were their only passions grades 1 through ~7.

All to say OP, consider what kind of boy you have. Does addiciton to -anything- run in your families? Then I'd keep a short leash on the gaming. Does your kid have ADHD? Same thing. Otherwise, think ahead to what kind of young men you want to raise. Doers? or watchers? [/quote]

What’s the chance that all of us here have the highest performing students at the most prestigious private school? Lol. Here in the real world 90% of boys play video games in MS. If you have a real reason to be against it or your kid isn’t interested, fine. [b]But banning your 12 yr old from Fortnite will not get him into a T20[/b]. [/quote]

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