Saturday, March 21, 2009

Beware at the online games your kids play

By Harry Topper

If you have children, you probably face the challenge of them asking you to let them play online games for as long as possible. Doctors have proven that strategy games playing help the brain development, thus determining young persons learn new reasoning ways and improve their performance. Nonetheless, such games can easily develop addiction and make kids more violent.

A special category of games are the ones playable on the internet without any fee. Built in Adobe Macromedia Flash, such games are small in size, require less memory, meaning that they are working even for older systems.

For being able to play these games, you'll need to download some browser-specific add-ons which make it possible to play straight in browser, without needing to keep the game files on the hard disk. Some games can only function in Firefox or Internet Explorer and do not work in others.

When letting children to play online games, beware that they will want to play 24 hours a day. An idea could be to, limit the time they are allowed to use the PC. Check the games they like to play most. Action games can be so violent, so you need to control your child's activity online.

If used within normal limits, there's nothing wrong with playing computer games. Computer can be used for teaching efficiently, so it's all right to permit children use the computer even in early childhood. You ought to watch what they are doing as a parent.

Easy puzzle games may not be interesting for grown-ups, yet kids will find a special pleasure in playing them day and night, in every spare moment. Racing and dynamic games are better for bigger ages. Detailed flight and driving simulators are also enjoyed by elders, as well as by their kids.

Even pilots are trained on flight simulators which are similar to regular computer games. Such big flying games are the exact copy of the plane dashboard, in order to make setting the pilot familiar with flying the plane before facing the real thing. Next time your children would want to play, think that they can become pilots some day.

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