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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toben the Many" data-source="post: 4911876" data-attributes="member: 19273">Fair enough. Let me clarify - I am indeed speaking in broad generalities. I am definitely painting with a giant brush. Of course, there are children who go to piano practice, play sports, take horseback riding lessons, and still are prolific readers. No doubt. Absolutely. In terms of children, it's been my experience that 90% of parents out there care about their offspring and therefore have rules and regulations on their households. Thus, most of my students have limits as to how much they can play video games, and therefore they're unable to play video games for 5 hours a day. However, even many of the students I do have who are given that amount of freedom will often choose to read for part of the day or read for a few days before going back to a game. Again, I am speaking broad generalities. The kids that I see that do nothing but play video games all day have been pretty rare in my experience, mainly because - as I said before - 90% of parents that I meet actually care about their children. So, let me revise my statement in this way: In my experience, children who play video games a lot or prefer that form of activity also tend to read a lot and prefer read as one of their many activities.Yup. That's all I was sayin'. Great points all the way through. The data out there basically says that kids are reading now more than ever. Indeed, we have the highest literacy rates that we've ever had before in our history. As far as amount that we play video games, I don't have the data on that, but I'd wager that it's quite high as well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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