Did you hear your mom and dad constantly urging you to stop playing around with your gaming console and instead focus on doing something useful? Well, you weren’t alone. In the days not too old, video games were considered to be a waste of time where a child would sit in one place doing nothing useful.
Why should you waste your time sitting around in a couch doing nothing useful, when you can be reading or playing a physical sport, cynics asked? Today, the concept of gaming’s changing, a reason it has become very popular in recent times with many people playing such games on a regular basis. You have the Kinect and motion gaming technology, that helps you experience gaming while moving.
The Microsoft Kinect for instance, allows the user to stand up and interact with the game and use their body as the controller without having to sit down even for a second. The games boost the player’s fitness by keeping him active whole day-long. Most game consoles target children even today, and this is why games are directly marketed to them and not to the parents.
However, it’s not just video games that we are talking about.
There has been a surge in the number of indoor play centres as well. An indoor play centre offers a variety of activities to children of different ages. The concept’s simple. Children can run around burning calories and enjoy themselves while the parents sit and relax in one place.
So, what does an indoor play centre bring to the table?
Children can choose from various safe indoor play games and equipments that enhance their physical and mental well-being and help them become more active than before. Unlike the one gaming console that you have in your home, there are tons of different games for your kids to choose from. An indoor play centre helps them sit on a console and play memory games with ease, for instance. There are different indoor play equipments as well that can help in the child’s physical and mental development.
Indoor play centres are after all, not just for video games. And not all video games have an adverse effect – we are rapidly progressing into interactive classroom teaching as well, a concept that was perhaps brought first by the emergence of video games. Rather than judging things beforehand, have a try at the game yourself and the challenges that it opens up for you. Games today aren’t just about moving around with your virtual characters, it’s about solving challenges and quick decision taking abilities as well.
Bring in the perfect mix of games for development
Every child needs to have a mix of both indoor and video games to aid in his development. Video games can connect family members with each other while indoor play can help a child to interact with children of his age. As a parent, you should monitor the development of the child personally and encourage the child to do what he truly likes doing.
Why should you waste your time sitting around in a couch doing nothing useful, when you can be reading or playing a physical sport, cynics asked? Today, the concept of gaming’s changing, a reason it has become very popular in recent times with many people playing such games on a regular basis. You have the Kinect and motion gaming technology, that helps you experience gaming while moving.
The Microsoft Kinect for instance, allows the user to stand up and interact with the game and use their body as the controller without having to sit down even for a second. The games boost the player’s fitness by keeping him active whole day-long. Most game consoles target children even today, and this is why games are directly marketed to them and not to the parents.
However, it’s not just video games that we are talking about.
There has been a surge in the number of indoor play centres as well. An indoor play centre offers a variety of activities to children of different ages. The concept’s simple. Children can run around burning calories and enjoy themselves while the parents sit and relax in one place.
So, what does an indoor play centre bring to the table?
Children can choose from various safe indoor play games and equipments that enhance their physical and mental well-being and help them become more active than before. Unlike the one gaming console that you have in your home, there are tons of different games for your kids to choose from. An indoor play centre helps them sit on a console and play memory games with ease, for instance. There are different indoor play equipments as well that can help in the child’s physical and mental development.
Indoor play centres are after all, not just for video games. And not all video games have an adverse effect – we are rapidly progressing into interactive classroom teaching as well, a concept that was perhaps brought first by the emergence of video games. Rather than judging things beforehand, have a try at the game yourself and the challenges that it opens up for you. Games today aren’t just about moving around with your virtual characters, it’s about solving challenges and quick decision taking abilities as well.
Bring in the perfect mix of games for development
Every child needs to have a mix of both indoor and video games to aid in his development. Video games can connect family members with each other while indoor play can help a child to interact with children of his age. As a parent, you should monitor the development of the child personally and encourage the child to do what he truly likes doing.