Pros and Cons of Video Games for Kids With ADHD
From Minecraft to Mario Kart, today's tweens and teens can spend a lot of their free time in the world of gaming. But are video games good or bad for these kids? And what's the relationship...
==========
The pros of video games are multifaceted. My favorite research says that people, kids that play video games are more likely to be able to read and follow instructions than kids that do not play video games. So those complicated instruction manuals that I kind of cannot get through, kids that play video games learn how to follow instructions, follow rules, do things systematically. The kids that don't play video games don't do as well. Kids who play video games have an improvement in visual spatial relations. The idea that they can navigate things in 3D, which is super helpful. As a physician, like, it would have been incredibly helpful to me in organic chemistry if I could have actually seen things in a 3D kind of fashion. So those are the kinds of ...
==========
The pros of video games are multifaceted. My favorite research says that people, kids that play video games are more likely to be able to read and follow instructions than kids that do not play video games. So those complicated instruction manuals that I kind of cannot get through, kids that play video games learn how to follow instructions, follow rules, do things systematically. The kids that don't play video games don't do as well. Kids who play video games have an improvement in visual spatial relations. The idea that they can navigate things in 3D, which is super helpful. As a physician, like, it would have been incredibly helpful to me in organic chemistry if I could have actually seen things in a 3D kind of fashion. So those are the kinds of ...
