Katrina Kouvatsos (FGCU); Sponge like Brains

 Years ago, it was much more common to see a jungle gym in the backyard of someone’s house.  Today and for the past few years, it is more common to see a Play Station II or X Box 360 in the playroom with an empty backyard.  Children are not spending their playtime in the sun and having fun, and it is increasing the rates of obese kids and holding them back from their maximum capacity of imagination and learning. When I was young, my sisters and I were never really allowed to have a Nintendo in the house.  My mom did not feel like we really needed it and we were too young to really argue with her so we didn’t feel like we were being deprived of anything.  Don’t get me wrong; we had plenty of movies and other toys that we would play with, but never something that would require us to sit in front of the TV for hours at a time.  I was almost fifteen years old before I saw a play station in our house, and the entire reason we got the machine was for Dance Dance Revolution.  I see today how kids depend on their electronic fun inside all day with no room for education and appreciate what my mother did for my sisters and me.  My imagination grew much larger by being outside with friends rather than on the living room floor yelling at a TV screen.  And today statistics have proven that these video games have done nothing positive for those spongy-like growing brains. 

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