Everyone around is only doing what they shout about the dangers of computer games. You see, they have a bad effect on the fragile consciousness of children and adolescents. Immediately there are a lot of horrifying examples when teenagers who played shooting games killed their classmates or family members. But wait, these are quite advanced cases. The key word in all these tragedies is "played". If you control the time of the game and do not let the child overplay, you can be sure that this will never happen to him. Moreover, games will help him become smarter, more collected, more confident in himself and ... Let's go in order.

Everything is good in moderation. This golden rule also applies to video games. In reasonable doses, even an aggressive shooting game pays off. A reasonable dose is a maximum of 1.5 hours of play per day, ideally 40 minutes to an hour. Your main task is not to keep track of what games the child chooses, but to watch the time and not let him overplay. All numerous studies agree on one thing: playing up to 1.5 hours a day is useful, and more than 3 is definitely harmful. A plus turns into a minus the longer the child plays. This is very, very important, so under the description of each useful feature of video games, you will find a warning about what will happen if the child systematically overplays. If the regime is observed, computer games will be an excellent exercise for the brain and a stimulus for the development of important human qualities. So let's go!

1. Video games are great multitasking training

Modern popular video games are extremely detailed world. Every minute, the player faces more and more new problems and tasks of a completely different scale. The child has to do several things at once: determine the priority task, constantly switch between it and less significant problems of a local nature, when new ones arise, quickly assess their degree of importance and how much time it will take to solve them and, of course, solve them. And all this, as a rule, must be done very, very quickly!

If replayed: everything is simple - multitasking turns into absent-mindedness and inability to structure activities.

2. Video games make a child purposeful

According to statistics, 80% of game time a gamer fails. Completing a quest, moving to the next level, getting an artifact, or defeating an opponent - all this is only 20% of the time. It would seem that if there are so few joyful moments, why do children continue to play video games? The answer is simple - they have a purpose. It is a goal imposed by the game that cannot be abandoned, because the only possible form of refusal is to stop playing. This forces the players to be purposeful. Moreover, games teach children to look optimistically at the goal, believe in success and not give up. Gamers are always sure that victory is possible, and we must get down to business as soon as possible.

If replayed: virtual goals become more important for the child than real ones. Passivity develops, as the player gets used to the fact that someone else always sets goals.

3. Video games teach you how to communicate

The most popular games are online games. In them, the child plays not alone, but with many gamers, and naturally there is communication between them. The child constantly learns to build relationships, avoid conflicts and cope with them. In 2009, one large-scale study found that children who play video games for about an hour a day are better socially adjusted than those who do not play at all. These children themselves noted that they were satisfied with everything and thought that they knew how to get along with their peers.

If replayed: According to the same study, those who played more than 3 hours a day showed exactly the opposite results and had problems in live communication with peers.

4. Video games improve concentration and attention

You may think that the game is a way to relax. The child comes after school and thus relaxes. Nothing of the kind, it just changes the type of load, because any game requires concentration and concentration from the gamer. It has already been proven many times that people who play computer games remember information better and faster and concentrate better. A typical adult can focus on 3-4 objects at the same time, a gamer - on 6-7 objects. What does it give in practice? For example, a lower probability of errors due to inattention when solving school problems.

If replayed: The child's nerves are shattered, he is overworked and loses self-control. This is expressed in irritability, screaming, grimacing, restlessness, etc.

5. Video games educate experimenters

Most popular computer games have no rules. There is a goal and tasks, but how the child fulfills them is not written anywhere. So, he has to comprehend everything by experience. This develops research abilities, the ability to compare one's actions and their consequences, and, on the basis of this analysis, independently discover norms. This is exactly what the school does not give children, where there are clear rules for all occasions.

If replayed: game norms are far from "normal". For too long acting within the framework of the game, the child begins to transfer game norms to life, and false ideas about reality are formed in him.

6. Video games develop a sense of responsibility and teach trust.

Online games are full-fledged communities of interest. In fact, such a game consists in constant interaction between players. Over time, you will notice that the child has online friends, or rather an online team of like-minded people. And they, like real friends, cannot be let down, otherwise it will be worse for you. The realization that in the game everyone depends on each other comes quickly. The child begins to learn to trust and rely on others, to take responsibility and cope with what he undertook.

If replayed: The sense of responsibility towards online friends is getting unhealthy. The child is afraid to leave the game and thereby let his comrades down or become unnecessary to them.

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