I like to tell parents that video games are actually not all bad. A lot of parents get terrified about video games, and they really get terrified about the violence in video games - understandably, there is some really graphic stuff out there, but actually there is a lot of research on video games that shows that video games can have some learning benefits. A lot of parents are worried about the amount of time some of their children play video games, but there has been a lot of research on the cognitive effects of video games, starting from the '90s. For example, because when kids play video games, when you think about it, there are things all over the screen, there is hand/eye co-ordination, and there is a great learning between what they see and spatial representation, and the way that things are manipulated on the screen. Kids understand object movement and things, and a lot of kids can learn that from video games. There is research showing that this kind of learning underlies mathematical learning and many of the stem learning, which is science, technology, engineering and mathematics, so it can be very beneficial, and there is actually research showing that video game is correlated with academic achievement, for girls in particular. I often tell parents it's okay to let your child play video games, as long as you make sure you are regulating the content and the time.