Dang Video Games Make Kids Smarter!

Of all the things I read online today, I had to find playing video games in the top ten things that make your kids smarter. Of course reading and eating a good breakfast were also on the list but those wouldn't be the things that my grandkids would notice right away! Nor would they place any emphasis on fitness and team sports (also made the list!) but instead they would JUMP on the so called ‘fact’ that playing video games could make them smarter. They wouldn't care about the caveat included warning that the games should be those of strategy and creativity vs violence. They’d skim right over that because they love video games. Every school night the playing and viewing of all screens (all electronic) ends an hour before bedtime and reading actual bound books along with the brushing, flossing, and laying out of clothes for the next day commences. This has been grudgingly accepted as routine but this latest on MSN (if discovered by the grandkids) could be the beginning of a new argument for playing video games right up until bedtime. So here I am working on my blog, forced to minimize MSN every time one of them comes by. That’s right, just like an employee playing computer solitaire on their bosses’ dime! Okay I know I am dating myself with that one. I guess it is time to finally say uncle and admit that video games are back in my house to stay at least as long as grandkids are here.