Another Reason for Your Kids to Join a MMORPG

Still wondering if you should let your kids loose on the likes of Club Penguin or Habbo? Well consider this:

The Club Penguin Times, after all, is more widely read than New York's
Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, or The Dallas Morning News. And it's not even 3 years old.

Newspapers have become fascinated recently by the fact that readerships of online publications linked to social networking sites are far greater than their own.

The anecdotal evidence would suggest this gets kids reading and writing - the Club Penguin Times receives over 30,000 submissions a day from their child readers, from poems to jokes and questions.

The content includes lessons about in-game finance, relationships and values - all which could be considered good lessons for the real worlds children inhabit.

And what must really drive the newspapers mad is the commitment by Club Penguin to not include in-game advertising because of children's limited capacity to distinguish advertising from agme content until approximately age eight. Good on 'em.