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Old Thu Oct 1, 2009, 05:05 PM
Neil Cuadra Neil Cuadra is offline
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Some treatment centers have videogame systems that kids can "check out" and keep in their rooms.

Even healthy kids who are at home and not confined to a hospital room can spend all day in a room playing videogames, if you don't send them outside now and then for some fresh air and exercise, so that's clearly an entertaining way for some kids to pass the hours. They may not be able to play with other children in a hospital, but with multiplayer online games there's a possibility that they could play a videogame with other kids their age over the Internet. I wonder if any treatment centers are set up for this.

On the flipside, kids should keep doing schoolwork to the extent possible, and that will take some of their time.
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