Collective Voice: Attention parents: You're wrong

Grade 9 students in the Collective Voice program at Aden Bowman Collegiate share their lives and opinions through columns. Selected columns run each Monday in The Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
 
A lot of gamers have heard the same tired phrase over and over again: “Video games are a waste of time. Why don’t you go out and be social instead?”
If video games are a waste of time, then how is reading a book or watching a movie not a waste of time too? I could argue that any of these