Is it good for kids to have their own computers?

Should Kids Have Their Own Computers? Or are we living in a spoiled society?

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Lorand said:
You mean TCP/IP?
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Well i meant basically things like XBOX live, or counter strike where you can talk with team mates and plan an attack. You've got to have strong communication skills, otherwise your team jsut goes off and does thier own thing nad the enemy picks you off 1 by 1.

Same with a job i think. You gotta work as a team, if everyone in your group starts on different projects it LOOKS like alot is getting doen. but come deadline day no one is done and you've got squat to present to your boss. The other teams might only get 1 project done, but that still beats you lol.
 
but seriously I dont believe video games teachers anything bad but on the same token anything good. Video games is entertainment and that all it is. It no different then going to the latest superhero movie.

teamwork, computer skills, communications skills, and coordination skills.
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Everything on that list except computer skills there a much healthier way to learn them. It called team sports. Basketball or baseball will teach teamwork, communcations skill and coordination skill way better then any video games. Computer skills can be learn by doing research for school projects etc.

None of those things is a reason to encorage people to play video games.
 
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mgoldb2 said:
Everything on that list except computer skills there a much healthier way to learn them. It called team sports. Basketball or baseball will teach teamwork, communcations skill and coordination skill way better then any video games. Computer skills can be learn by doing research for school projects etc.

None of those things is a reason to encorage people to play video games.
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but sports dont appeal to everyone, and forcing your kid to do somethign they dont want to do wont teach them anything. i never played a spot in my life, but i'm not a dummy lol.

theres better ways for everything, but you suggested research for a school project. how appealing is that to middleschool or highschool kids? i personally almost fell asleep thinking about school projects lmao.

you're right of course, computer games dont teach anything good, and they dont really teach anything bad.
 
I think that its a very good thing for kids to have their own comp as long as they arent just playing video games with it.
my family always had a family/(moms)work pc but i could never take it apart or do much experimenting, but for my 19th bday i bought myself a computer so now im finaly able to screw around with the hardware w/o worrying oh crap i just destroyed 4 months of my moms work... opppsiessss! lol
 
4W4K3 said:
and forcing your kid to do somethign they dont want to do wont teach them anything.
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am not saying you should force them to play sports but I disagree if you think you should never force your kids to do anything. Kids need guidence and need to be push to do things they dont want to do. You cant let your kid completly ignore school and do what ever the hell they want. There a balance between being to soft and being to strict. It also depends on the kid because different kids need to be treated differently.
 
mgoldb2 said:
am not saying you should force them to play sports but I disagree if you think you should never force your kids to do anything. Kids need guidence and need to be push to do things they dont want to do. You cant let your kid completly ignore school and do what ever the hell they want. There a balance between being to soft and being to strict. It also depends on the kid because different kids need to be treated differently.
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sports and school are different. you mentioned sports, not school.

school is pretty much a MUST, you go to jail if you don't attend lol.

But look at me, i am a gamer, and i go to school, and i have my own computer. I think i'm a pretty well-rounded kid. I didn't learn teamwork and all that jazz by having my parents force me to interact with other kids. They tried civil air patrol, i quit, they tried violin and band in school, i quit, they tried church, i never participated, they tried taking my stuff away, i practically gave it to them.

some kids jsut develop skills differently, some through sports and interaction, others through solitude and very close groups of friends. I hang out with 1 person, no friends since i moved, and i am happy as can be:)
 
Lorand said:
Ok, show me one single useful computer game. Don't trick me with checkers or similar mind-challenging games, those are useful, but existed (and still exist) without computers too.
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I saw on the discovery channel that playing games like first person shooters and other games makes you a much better surgeon, for the surgeons that use those long instruments that make only little holes in the patients so that they can heal quicker and they stick a video camara into them and do surgery.. you know the ones i just dont remember what they are called..
 
4W4K3 said:
sports and school are different. you mentioned sports, not school.

school is pretty much a MUST, you go to jail if you don't attend lol.

But look at me, i am a gamer, and i go to school, and i have my own computer. I think i'm a pretty well-rounded kid. I didn't learn teamwork and all that jazz by having my parents force me to interact with other kids. They tried civil air patrol, i quit, they tried violin and band in school, i quit, they tried church, i never participated, they tried taking my stuff away, i practically gave it to them.

some kids jsut develop skills differently, some through sports and interaction, others through solitude and very close groups of friends. I hang out with 1 person, no friends since i moved, and i am happy as can be:)
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I was exactly the same as you in HS and i hated sports and i thought my parents were dumb for always sugesting for me to go into them, but looking back i see why they did it, you do meet alot of people in sports and if was young again i probably would join something club/sport or something that i was interested in.
 
DanLatimer said:
I was exactly the same as you in HS and i hated sports and i thought my parents were dumb for always sugesting for me to go into them, but looking back i see why they did it, you do meet alot of people in sports and if was young again i probably would join something club/sport or something that i was interested in.
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my parents never asked me to do sports lol, my dad hates sports. i dont watch them on TV, i dont go to games, just not in the blood. but he was big into pressuring me about band and civil air patrol. i still play electric guitar, and i never had an interest in civil air patrol really. theres plenty of people i COULD talk to, but since highschool started, i never really felt the need to have friends. i got a family, a girlfriend, and her family, and thats plenty.

some people look at other who dont wnat friends as mentally unstable, or antisocial. i get that all the time from people, saying how its unhealthy to spend all my time with 1 person, and never interact with others. personally, i think thats BS.
 
I don't think its good for kids to have their own computers, I definitely wouldn't have it until they are into their 'teens. From a social aspect at an earlier age I reckon its important that kids aren't using a computer a lot of the time. But later on, sure, they can go nuts ;)
Though really thats just what I would do if I was a parent, I'm indifferent to what other people may do...
 
About 3 years ago (when I was a freshman in high school) i had a social problem because I spent all my time on the computer. I finally made some friends and had a social life. I could see why parents would want to restrict their kids, but I do think they should have computers, with restrictions. I built my own system a few years ago and that teached me some responsibility. The fact that I was in control of my own system, to play with, and to break. My computer is all on me, if something isn't right, I fix it, I pay.
 
i say yes they should. they can learn how to us the computer as a tool and to keep them out of trouble. but on the other hand they download illeagly and give u the bill or sumthing. they will probery mess it up to i.e delete windows files. to ive messed mine up so meny times. that a teens view.
 
4W4K3 said:
some people look at other who dont wnat friends as mentally unstable, or antisocial. i get that all the time from people, saying how its unhealthy to spend all my time with 1 person, and never interact with others. personally, i think thats BS.
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haha im def anti social but ive got alot of friends... but your not antisocial just because you hang with 1 person, yeah... people are dumb.
 
At least in my school, its pretty much required to do homework and all. Like they dont put it on the "school supplies list" but if you dont have one you have to stay after school and use the crappy school computers
 
i think kids should have there own computers but i don't think the kids who play only games should have one because if they play for more than 3 hours and the have a crt monitor they say that the magnetic resonance can screw up your brain and i dont play games; im one of those kids that like to use multimedia
 
I think all kids should, computers are awesome. I mean everything is going to be on computers here soon, most stuff is already right now. So they should know how to maintain/upkeep their computers starting at an early age and start to learn about them. How they work and such, everything is being computerized, we need to keep up with the times.
 
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