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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's controversial. Don't give this as a gift, Op. Many parents do not want this for their kid. They are working to decrease gaming and screen time.[/quote]
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. [/quote]

+1000[/quote]

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/

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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[/quote]

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.[/quote]

Who said anything about playing a ton?   Boys socialize over playing video games. If they have a sport then they go to the sport (keeping in mind most of your kids will be dropping out of the sport).   If they play an instrument then they set aside an hour to practice.

You’re assuming there’s no value in video games and you’re wrong.  If you do have a child with an addictive personality you have to be aware of it and monitor it.  But they will be exposed to video games.  [b]The majority of guys bring their gaming system to college. [/b]  It might be better if you know whether your child would have a problem with it.  [/quote]

That was not true at all at the top colleges that I visited. Some people brought video games, not the majority.[/quote]

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