Can Minecraft and Angry Birds Improve Thinking Skills?
Can playing Minecraft and Angry Birds improve thinking skills in your child? How can parents and educators help kids transfer executive functioning skills used in these games to the real […]
Parents Who Feel Guilty about Letting Their Kids Play Video Games
Have you ever overeaten or spent too long sitting in front of the television? Most normal, well-adjusted, healthy adults would say yes to at least one of these questions. I […]
How Exercise Improves Executive Functions: Finding Games and Apps That Promote More Exercise in Kids
Vigorous physical exercise leads to improvement in executive-functioning skills. Studies detailed by John Ratey in his book “Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain” demonstrate how kids […]
Major League Gaming
When I was a kid in the 1960s my biggest dream was to be a major-leaguer. Yes, I wanted to be a baseball player like my heroes Carl Yastrzemski and […]
