Rob van der Meijden

Society says: Kids and video games are not going well together. The result of these are  lazy, fat and low on social skills kids. So as a good father of Max and Cas (7 and 3 years old) we introduced the house rule: “Only 1 hour gaming per day”, hoping that there lives will succeed.

Today I’m flying to Los Angeles … final destination Microsoft PDC … it takes a while so plenty of time the read all the magazines they put into to chair in front of you. I really did read one article, nl. Gamers Aren’t Weirdos, and they even make excellent employees by John Gaudiosi. Some statements from the article: 

• The skills that are required to become a guild master [team leader] in a MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) game are the same skills for quality middle and top managers in a company. 
• Gamers are more willing to jump in and try rather than gathering lots of information, doing lots of analysis and than make a decision. 
• Video game players spend more than three times the amount of time sports, reading, community work and cultural activities.

I still have to discuss this with my wife but maybe the 1 hour houserule is going to be changed to: “You must play 1 hour videogames”