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Active Video Games May Get Your Kids Moving…(0)

January 20, 2011

Are your Generation Z kids more interested in playing video games than in playing outside? If this characterizes your kids – you may want to watch this video at RedOrbit – as researchers have found that a new breed of video games helps kids get more exercise. In the example used in the video – [...]

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Video Games – Just May be Good for Kids….

Thanks to NPR for pointing us to the research by Daphne Bavelier is professor of brain andcognitive sciences at the University of Rochester. She studies young people playing action video games. Having now conducted more than 20 studies on the topic, Bavelier says, “It turns out that action video games are far from mindless.” Her [...]

Top 10 banned video games

Very interesting list compiled by the Silicon Republic.  My kids use Pokemon which is banned in Saudi Arabia; and they keep asking for Call of Duty, which we have banned. To see the top ten list, click here.

Kids MMOs – What are Your Kids Playing?

  Thank you to Boing Boing for the image of the most popular kids MMOs. What are your kids playing?   Check out Poptropica…    


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