Videogames in childrehood Videogames have become the favorite leisure activity of the children and they spend the most of their time playing them. The questions to be considered are: Does this activity only have disadvantages? How could that be transformed in a helpful habit? When teenagers spend the most of their time in front of the screen, for instance figthing agains martians, they are not doing the homework. If the don´t pay attention to the school obligation, that could affect the grades. In past times, children played together in the street, for example football or basketball. In contrast, nowadays they prefer playing videogames in their roms.. That means we could be raising up lonely, egoistic children, unable to share and make a team. In spite of this, our children are digital natives, and they will live in a digital age. That means the skills they need will be digital ones, and the computer games could be a good training platform in order to develop those capabilities, provided that this habit is controlled by adults. In conclusión, videogames are not fully harmful for the children, whenever its use does not become an addiction. Education, discipline, selfcontrol and alternative spare time activities could be the solutions.