oh my god you did not just namedrop the creepy ass nerd kid from the spelling bee movie as someone you want your kid to be like.
you want your kid to vapidly shun social activity and entertainment so that he can recite the correct spellings of every word in english?
Heh. He's actually a pretty great guy to be around; I would know because I was his neighbor. And for your information he plays (minimal) DDR and some videogames BUT THATS NOT THE POINT.
The point is I don't want my kid to be playing videogames all fricking day. If you looked at my original post (god forbid anyone do that), you would see that I said the following:
Give your baby decent social skills and don't show her television until she's at least 6 PLEASE.
DECENT SOCIAL SKILLS.
Okay, yeah, of course I'd stress schoolwork. Want my kid to go to college. Huh. What a concept. No, I wouldn't send the kid off to CELLO LESSONS and SAT CLASS etc etc. I happen to think that the GATE program's a waste of time, and that the AP system is complete bull (I'm going apeshit trying to pull my classes together). The thing is I don't want my kid to be a couch potato and spend more than an hour a day just mashing buttons and blinking.
That article is just...ugh. Yeah, it cites University of Rochester's omigod I can spot 13 blocks on screen. How is that applicable to real life? Yes, there are certain problem-solving skills you learn when playing videogames. But they're hardly ever applicable. It's not like you can take what you learn to do in a videogame and apply it to other things; you only apply your problem solving
ability. I happen to think that you can build skills like that through constructive work, without the need for flashy colors.
Maybe I was just a bit too harsh. Yeh, I'd let the kid play some videogames. I'm not some totalitarian freak crusading against videogames. But I'd seriously not let them play for more than an hour a day. I'd rather have them go OUTSIDE and play (...What....Out...side...what is this?)
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And for the record, the only reason why Anurag spells like that is because he's Indian.