Use parental controls like training wheels to keep young players safe KEY POINTS Gaming can be a healthy pastime, fostering resilience, social skills, and cognitive development. Many consoles and gaming... read more →
In Why Sticks are Good for Kids on PsychologyToday.com, Andrea Bonior makes some excellent points about the importance of allowing creativity and imagination in play without overzealous, politically-correct, anxiety-driven restriction that... read more →
The Sandy Hook tragedy has created an avalanche of response across social media. The senseless violence has so outraged and shocked people that is has turned observers into advocates and... read more →
Video games have been at the forefront of interactive media and continue to be a significant part of the participatory media environment. The thought of a video game still may... read more →
Many people have the image of video games as socially isolating, if not psychologically addicting. Yet, like my friend Kristin Brandt demonstrated when she joined her son in the online... read more →