Ok about computer games , I have lots to say .
Looking at the posts about computer games. I personally ( and I appreciate others might disagree ), have not played with computer games ever , but have helped making them as a scientist . And I usually don’t let my nieces play with them. But of course , it is up to parents and to decide what is best for their child.
Here is my reasons.
1- Part of it is because even the ones with the least violence ( like Minecraft ) still have some mild none graphical violence against humans or animals or normalize it.
2- The second part of my reasoning is because playing games reduces social interaction , book reading , solving puzzles , lego time , crafts , science experiments etc .
3- The third part is that , there is this idea that working with computers and playing games will help learning how to code . It is not true at all , and even if it did, coding is not a big deal at all .
Learning a programming language , is super easy and won’t get a child too far . But learning the maths and the algorithms behind computer science is essential, hard and worth the effort .
For that reason , I always encourage my nieces to use that time to practice maths and learn science . Coding , sounds nerdy , but it’s super easy to learn any time you want.
I learned advanced C language when I was a kid. But what made me successful in my career and set me apart from others was the maths and the science.
Doing computer science professionally and properly needs lots of maths and algorithms , and that only comes from intense math education.
I often encourage my nieces to do maths, science , art , literature and human and social science and leave computers alone .
I myself don’t have a TV at home ( never had a TV in my life) and my condition to visit family and friends is that when I’m there there should be no TV time, no and no computer games time .
It was hard for them at first, but overtime they learned to enjoy their time without TV , without games and without ear shattering music .
Now as a result of my enforcement over years , my nieces play the piano , know a lot about classic literature and music and have lots of favorite science books that they cherish. Learning about evolution or poetry or painting or maths would do them better than learning about a programming language even if they want to be a code developer in future . It opens their mind and make them better and more responsible citizens.
Just my 2 cents .