One of the teens favorite pastimes nowadays, is to play games online. Specially for high school students. Some people say, playing online is not good. Since, they waste a lot of time interacting with the computer, thus, they already fail to mind their social life. Parent wanted their children to interact more with people and not robots or computers. Yes, this could be unhealthy, specially if they already spent all their time on it, and they forget about their responsibilities. But, if we would help them out, realize their real priorities, by telling them to balance their life, and not to spend all their time playing psp, xbox or online games, it’s not that bad at all. It can even help their mental development. When we play, our brains are stimulated. It’s like playing to solve something using your mind. The more we exercise our brain, the more it becomes stronger. So, if used properly with proper parental guidance, games can be helpful to students.  As parents, we have to let them be responsible for their own actions and not just manipulate them or tell them what to do or not.  Nowadays, you don’t have to spend a fortune to buy them a PSP or an xbox. If you already have a computer, there are a lot of websites that offer different kinds of interactive games. There are also mind games. If you have someone old in the house, who has nothing to do, you can let them play online casinos too. This would be great, as they wouldn’t have to travel far just to get to a place where they could play that. There are sites that offer it for free, and you could even win prizes and cash.