We all know that children love playing games. They can spend hours sitting in front of the computer and do anything so that they can get permission from their parents. However, like other things in the world, playing online games offers people both advantages and disadvantages. Parents are worried that their kids will suffer lots of serious problems such as addiction, mental illness, etc. when playing games excessively. These bad consequences are real, and gamers are vulnerable to them.

However, if we can reduce the disadvantages of online games and enjoy them with some rules, we can reap lots of benefits. Some online games can improve various children’s skills, such as problem-solving, decision-making, etc. If you find it difficult to believe, you can look for multiple prestigious articles on Google about this issue. Besides some necessary skills, online games also help your child with cognitive abilities. If you think it sounds strange, take a look at this article, and you will understand.

In 2014, an article published in the American Journal of Play by researchers Adam Eichenbaum, Daphne Bavelier, and “C” demonstrated some positive effects of online games on various mental processes like perception, memory, attention, etc. Most of their researches involves action games that make players move fast, stay focused, and make a series of decisions, and numerous abilities that players have to use in these games are considered the fundamental foundation of intelligence. 

The prominent thing from their research is that gamers performed better than non-gamers on any tests. However, it only suggests that gaming can lead to better performance, but didn’t prove it. That’s because maybe people who like playing online games already have superior cognitive abilities. That’s why they chose the group of people who are initially non-gamers, and then, they asked some of them to play a particular game for a certain number of hours a day. After that, the group of people who played the game and the others took