Video Games Are Good For You
Everyone is excited because a study suggests that video games make kids better at solving complicated problems.
I know that video games helped with my motor skills the day that I was able to catch something falling off the kitchen counter. My mom was amazed because I had caught it, even though it was just in the corner of my eyes. I realized that I had expanded my view of the world to encompass more than what was just in front of me and I had learned to react to things in my peripheral vision. I think I was thirteen or fourteen years old. If I had been a jock girl, I would have learned this by playing sports, but I got it from playing hours of Centipede and watching out for the spider in the corner of my eye.
Now, they say video games help children learn problem solving and I believe it. After fighting with some of these games, I’m amazed that anyone can play them at all. They are supposed to be fun, but they are huge puzzles that I need a guidebook to navigate. It’s no surprise to me that kids that are able to conquer these games alone are learning problem solving skills. That just makes me happy on some child-like level.