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In today’s world of technology, there are a lot of video gamers everywhere you look. In my case, most of my friends and their children are all addicted to all sorts of video games. I guess that includes me as well. I spend a lot of time with my family and friends playing video games. Most of my friends are even dropping by at home during weekends just to play some computer with us.

I allot a couple of hours just to play games with my kids. One thing for sure, it relieves a lot of stress. Especially on the weekends, I am able to release some tension due to a really tiring week. I guess it is one benefit that video game gives me. For my kids, it gives them some break after a rough school week too. One good thing is that I noticed that their brains are quite fast in making critical decisions. It’s not like they are already making life and death decisions, but they are actually making good decisions at the right time. For example, they can think of quick things to do when the piece of lego got stuck on the floor and they can’t reach it since they got small hands. In just a snap of a finger, they were already looking for a small stick that could rich the toy. It’s not that big of a decision but their logic skills have increased a notch since we started playing video games.

On my opinion, video games are really good when children are supervised by adults. Of course, too much of anything can be bad. Too much video games can be bad mentally and even physically. So I can safely say that balance is the key.