To put it simply, yes!
Online gaming is not only fun, but it allows your child to learn valuable skills. The gaming world can open up opportunities for your child to socialise, get creative and even unlock new career paths.
We invited industry professionals Professor Sonia Livingstone and Games Designer Tom Stone to speak to Own It's gaming bootcamp for parents, to spill the beans on the positive social and cognitive impacts of gaming.
Own It's gaming bootcamp for parents brought together the parents of gamers, to discuss the world of video games and how to help your child safely explore it.
Giovanna Fletcher: Hello and welcome to BBC Own It's gaming bootcamp for parents. Today, me and my squad of gaming parents are going to get some pro intel on why gaming is so positive for our kids.
Title: Meet the pros
Giovanna Fletcher: Right, let's dive straight in. First up, we have Sonia Livingstone. She's a professor of social psychology and she's going to be explaining some of the social and cognitive benefits of gaming.
Sonia Livingstone: I would say that digital gaming and the chance to play online offers children lots of cognitive and social benefits. For many of them, it's a way to meet others and engage, and it's a chance to be imaginative. I think a lot of parents worry that their children are spending too much time gaming and what a lot of experts would say now is too much time isn't always the most important indicator. What matters more is the quality of the experience, what the child's getting from it - are they getting something positive or negative?
It's not always that the game is the cause of the problem. So one question for parents is to say, "Is my child gaming a lot because of other difficulties within the family, or difficulties at school">