![]() ![]() My sons are healthy, hardworking and kind to their chronically frazzled single mom. They're growing up in a digital world in a way I did not. NOGUCHI: She says these are benefits not observed with TV or social media, which are passively consumed and more about marketing. A lot of games bring those feelings out in us, and they give us a space to play with those feelings. She says gaming and its effects on child development are misunderstood.ĭUNLAP: You can use games to improve your social connections, to practice feeling emotions that we normally avoid like guilt or grief or shame. She designs them and is community director for Take This, a mental health advocacy group within the gaming community. NOGUCHI: Dunlap is a parent, too, but one who appreciates games. KELLI DUNLAP: One of the most difficult things about video games is that they have this really bad rap - that they're brain rot, they're stupid, they're not productive and therefore bad. Clinical psychologist Kelli Dunlap talks to plenty of parents like me. ![]() I carried these notions with me into parenthood. To them, it seemed like television, and prevailing wisdom then said TV rotted kids' brains. YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE: My brief stint in gaming ended in the mid-1980s, when a pocket-sized electronic game my grandfather bought at a Tokyo toy store broke. As part of our ongoing series Living Better, NPR's Yuki Noguchi wanted to find out more about video games. Since the pandemic, kids spend more time online, and that is prompting more research on the impact of virtual activities on children. If you live with kids, you may recognize this.
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