Can games make your kid a better citizen?

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	Can games make your kid a better citizen?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b37fb3e3-9c83-4ec2-b840-6457b4ec32a5/71A771B3-207E-46CD-8491-E003AA599385/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726230/" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726230/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.msnbc.msn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726230/"><H1>Can games make your kid a better citizen?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726230/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.msnbc.msn.com/img/AE73B42F-EE15-4C4B-A219-C53555658409" alt="Image: playing video games" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726230/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD><LINK href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/default.ashx/id/3027626/" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><DIV class="box_3027626 sitewrapperbox"><TABLE width="102" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxH_3027626"><TBODY><TR><TD width="1%" class="boxHI_3027626"><IMG width="100" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="20" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/ColorBoxes/Styles/img/byline_msnbcDotCom.gif" /></TD><TD width="*" nowrap="" class="boxHC_3027626"><DIV class="hauto textSmallBold"></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE width="102" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxB_3027626"><TBODY><TR valign="top"><TD><IMG vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Bylines/mugs/MSNBC Interactive/msnbc_kristin_kalning_smile.thumb.jpg" /></TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD class="boxBI_3027626"><DIV class="textMed"><B>Kristin Kalning</B></DIV><DIV class="credit">Games editor</DIV><HR width="85%" size="1" color="#cccccc" align="center" /><DIV><SPAN class="bulletRedSmall">• </SPAN><SPAN class="textMed"><A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726230/mailto:kristinkalning@msnbc.com">E-mail</A></SPAN></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE width="102" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxF_3027626"><TBODY><TR><TD class="boxFI_3027626"><DIV class="textSmall"></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Parents of video-gaming children, take heart: Your kid is not destined to become an anti-social hermit who lives at home until he’s 35. In fact, a new study shows that all that game time could actually be making him a better citizen. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726230/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>Many of the of the 1,102 teenagers polled said they’d encountered hostility, racism and sexism while playing online — stuff that can certainly happen offline too, says Kahne.  “Just as some playground experiences are enriching and some are unpleasant for young people, one can imagine that that would be true in the game world.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726230/"> Virtually all of the teenagers polled — 97 percent — report playing games. So it’s important,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726230/"> to understand that games are “sitting at the table with all the rest of the media that children and teenagers are being exposed to.”</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/71A771B3-207E-46CD-8491-E003AA599385/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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