I, too, have thought about this with a 10 year old daughter. Made the "mistake" of getting her a tablet for christmas. All she'll want to do is play mindcraft. Now, in that games' defense, there is a lot of thought process involved. She can be lazy. She gets good grades in school, wayyyyy better than I ever did, so I can't really complain. But what if everything went dark? Not a prepper, but it could happen. Would she survive without me? Answer is #ell no. No way she could. That worries me, but I don't think it's about intelligence more than I feel it's experience not being passed down from me. I'm talking about things I did as a youth....fishing, building forts and [censored], learning how to change oil, cutting grass, etc. etc....you get the picture. I think whoever early said no sense in teaching how to kill a bison with a spear really summed it up. Is she getting as much out of building stuff on Mindcraft as I did building forts? I'd think yes, but in a different way. I mean, look at new musicians....lots of computer controlled voice enhancers and musical data interfaces that really doesn't require a skilled musician, but one good at programming. All the measures and tempo's are built into the software.