Proven Fact! Gaming is Good for You!

[Ranger REG]

http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/6170.html

Gaming Is Good for You!
WotC Touts Development Benefits of TCGs

December 21, 2004

Trading card games can aid cognitive and social development, according to information released by Wizards of the Coast. The release quotes Dr. Helen Boehm, psychologist and author of Fearless Parenting for the New Millenium and The Official Guide to the Right Toys, who describes how the interactive, constructive play of trading card games can help build relationships and live-long strategic thinking skills.

"Trading card games can help children develop important organizational and reasoning strategies," Boehm said. "In addition to providing a fundamental approach to divergent thinking and socialization, these interactive trading card games encourage creative planning and problem-solving skills."

Boehm also points out the use of trading card games to teach good sportsmanship and fair play.

Of course, if you ask me, roleplaying games do heck of a lot better. Perhaps this lady doctor should re-examine RPG in her child development study.

 

[Crothian]

isn't this like M&M claiming chocolate is good for you? I mean its not like they were going to come out with it being evil....

 

[Ranger REG]

Only if you like the Plain. I prefer M&M Almond.

My hat of TCG know no limit.

 

[Mark]

Perhaps this lady doctor should re-examine RPG in her child development study.

Perhaps if she dropped that "lady" from in front of her "doctor" title she would be taken more seriously. How is that abbreviated, anyway, LdY PhD? Did EN World travel back to the fifties and not tell everyone?

 

[hiryuu]

Perhaps if she dropped that "lady" from in front of her "doctor" title she would be taken more seriously. How is that abbreviated, anyway, LdY PhD? Did EN World travel back to the fifties and not tell everyone?

Aw, come on pops, don't be a total drag on our way out sock hop of a message board! It's like, the most!