parent of child on minecrack.:(

Grimebox wrote: »

If you could somehow get them interested in Kerbal Space Program...

This times 1000!

You'd probably need to play with them the first few sorry several times but once they grasp the "concept" of the game they'll be building projects to mars before you know it.

There were a lot of replies to my post, so i'm going to just reply to the last two and hopefully reply to the previous ones in the process

Mickeroo wrote: »

More kids read today than ever before to be fair thanks to smart phones, internet etc....also drawing a square house on a piece of paper is educational. Education does not rely solely on absorbing facts and figures nor does it take place exclusively in schools.

I agree with you about exercise of course but in the right circumstances there's no reason why a child can't be healthy and play lots of minecraft. Like a lot of things in life its all about balance and downplaying the actual benefits of something like minecraft doesn't do anyone any favours imo.

I agree that there are benefits in everything one does. You can technically say it's educational in the sense that all experiences are educational. However when people say things like ''minecraft is educatonal'' it gives the impression that it's far more beneficial than it actualy is.

With regards to kids reading more online. Let's be honest here, is the English used on Facebook and in Minecraft in any way proper English? I was playing minecraft on a pvp server on Saturday. If I spoke to real people like people typed on that server, I would become known as the mentally challenged lad who has a tendency to curse every second sentance

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

There's certainly a vast amount of "facts" in Eoin247's post.
No stats to back them up and certainly no one in the gaming fora I frequent would suggest that gaming is good for you in anything other than moderation.
It all smacks a bit of typical conservative over-reaction to a new feature of the current day, although as a gamer I'm sure he can appreciate an alternate point of view.
The word "addiction" is quite over-used, but to the Eoins credit he is right, a parent who allows their child play nothing but videogames all the times is being neglectful, but no more so than the parent of yesteryear who allowed the TV to be the house nanny, "Cathode Ray Nipple" as The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy once said.
A sentiment that can be transferred to videogames just as easily as to any other pursuit that is obsessed over to the exclusion of all else, including sports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA

I was talking about personal experience. Until somebody writes my biography, i'm afraid i can't link facts for that . I'll try not to get too off topic here, but you know as well as i do that on the internet there exists ''facts'' and sources for any argument. There are respected doctors that have written loads both for and against the topic of ''are videogames good for kids?''. With the internet, your own personal experience is the only thing that you can trust.

However it seems that we agree that moderation is the key, so we shouldn't be disagreeing on what i wrote. I suppose it's just what we each define moderation as. What would you consider to be a moderate amount of time daily for a schoolchild?

I said in my original post that a couple of hourse is more than enough. In other words 2 hours a day to the occasional 3 hours. Obviously this could be increase a bit in the summer months and when the kid becomes a teen.

TV is just as potentially bad and i did mention that in my original post. As long as sport/exercise, real life socialising, alternate actvities (like reading), school and schoolwork are given proper time each week, then of course minecraft is being played in moderation.