Mili

[Kristen (ColeysMom)]

Didn't you propose something like this once here?????

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-technology/20081204/SCI.Digital.Brain/

[milivica]

Well sure, that article makes sense, what ever you practice over and over, strengthens the neurological connections in your brain, that's a given we all know. That goes for video games, or practicing piano or golfing etc... My opinion is just cause you won't gain social skills from something doesn't necessarily make them bad per say - but it can be darn counterproductive to your life. But I wouldn't say Beethoven or Tiger Woods are less social due to their time on the piano or golf course.

Also things tend to become a habit, I can remember when I was here habitually over my responsibilities (hard to explain, it was an enjoyable escape at first, but when life became enjoyable again I will missing it spending hours here a day cause it was almost habitual). I'm sure that happens to kids playing video games.

But if you're say aspie or autistic, all the social opportunities and interaction in the world will not help you gain social wiring, though may help gaining social behavior so they can act nt it's not the same as wiring (that's what RDI did for Vince and even me which is why I'm always so gun ho about it). Likewise, if you're nt, gaming won't make you're wiring apsie, but you sure won't turn into a Tony Robbins either.

It's ok to have fun with technology, but like everything else "too much of anything is no good" as my ma used to tell me, and now I agree. (oddly, my ma got smarter when I got older, hee hee).

[Kristen (ColeysMom)]

oddly, my ma got smarter when I got older.

Funny, I've noticed a strange wave in my moms intellegence...there was a time when she was hands down the smartest being on the planet, but then something happened around my adolence...she was just as dumb as a doornail...she's doing great now, pulling it all together...:p