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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Minecraft is awesome. It's like legos in a computer game.  It's the only video game I am happy to see my son play (he's 9).   It's open-ended, and therefore allows kids to be very creative.  Yes, you do kill animals for food, and it can be part of a problem-solving situation (you have to eat, or you eventually die).

It also helps develop spatial reasoning skills, although to be fair, many video games to that, too.  And that correlates with math abilities.

But I love it most for the creativity opportunities.  My son has built an entire city with a huge college campus.   There's a library, an engineering building, dorms, and a gym.   Down the road he built a sky scraper, a Starbucks, an elementary school along with a school bus depot.   And there are farms and townhouses, as well as country houses.

And in another world he built an extremely complex roller coaster that goes to the cloud tops and then underground, powered by redstone.  You can actually build a working computer "within" the game by using redstone, circuits, and switches.

I play with my son.  It encourages teamwork, sharing, problem-solving, and creativity.   At some point, if s/he wants, your child can do some basic coding to write a "mod" for the game on the computer.   Want to add a green elephant to Minecraft?   Add the code.

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This is 100% true.. Minecraft is not bad at all, it is a good game that I like to see my son play, it is better then all those game like black ops that  encourage  violence [/quote]

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