Kaivokz
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In things make believe, games are the half way point between boys taking sticks outside and playing that they’re rescuing a princess from an evil dragon or warlock, and reading about knights saving a princess from an evil dragon or warlock.Books will teach those lessons much more effectively than games ever will, and without the problems of addiction.
Besides, have you never met a person who would rather spend their time in a book than with real people? Who stay up late and feel sick the next day because they had to read one more chapter? Forming unhealthy habits can occur with almost anything—yes even studying physics or playing football or lifting weights.
Most young boys don’t have the opportunity to actually fight evil or protect the weak. The wisdom of elders is valuable, yes—but rarely does a human act right and properly merely because a wise man told him so. Games can be a way of forming good moral habits, good reasoning skills, patience, etc.Well. I don't think playing video games is a good way to have such lessons imparted onto you. It's up to the parent to teach these things. Real life experience through meeting people, making choices, having those "talks" with the old man about life, is far more rewarding than experiencing it through an electronic display.
Of course it depends on the game—but then it also depends on the book, and the old man giving advice, and on.