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Parents control on video games
Why is there so much violence among young people in today’s generations? Why are Kids taking guns to school and shooting teachers? You hear stories on the news all the time of violence and murder. Everyday the suspects get younger and younger. Many parents blame the culture. Too much sex, drugs, and violence is exposed to our children through TV and especially video games. Video games are used and played by kids of all ages. What are the children learning from video games?
One finding reported by psychologists stated that the major problem with video games is that they award aggressive behavior. Experts are concerned that children are learning that violence is an acceptable response to aggressive behavior. Children ages 6 to 17 years of age play an average of 13 hours a week of video games. Regardless of content, that’s a lot of time invested into one activity. 49% of video games are rated “T”, which means their violent. Not all video games are violent but it’s been estimated that 89% of video games have some sort of violence in them.
Many studies have proven that kids who play a lot of video games are more hostile and more likely to think that it’s okay to use alcohol and marijuana and be competitive in another task. Experts say that desensitization is the culprit to increased hostility. Desensitation is when someone actually thinks that violence is normal. Some games especially online role playing games, can be a substitute for real life and players can become immersed in the experience of living in an imaginary world.
There are also unhealthy side affects of being a video gamer. Video gaming leads to severe obesity and also increased anxiety and withdrawals from family and society. There are even support groups for people who can’t stop playing video games. A lot of hardcore gamers feel symptoms of RSI. RSI is repetitive strain injury, which is caused by sitting for too long. For gamers, it’s common to get RSI in the wrist where tissue covers the tendons causing inflammation and sores.
It’s obvious that video games can be harmful for children and that parent’s play a large role in their children’s well being. If parents take the initiative to monitor what their kids play and for how long it could help reduce hostility and increase productivity in school and community activities.
A.M.H
20. June 2009 at 11:09
Assuming the studies you mention half way down are true, they succeed only in drawing a correlation between video games and competition. Naturally it would be wiser to examine whether a competitive child by nature is more likely to enjoy a video game when first introduced than a child who is less competitive, before stating causation so definitively. It is not uncommon for people with similar personality traits to be attracted to the same devices. Along the same vein, it is natural for someone who is already mentally unstable to be attracted to video games that fulfill what is already playing in their minds. Just as it is foolish to blame the Republican party for a Republican who decides to take out an abortion doctor, or any other group they belong to.
Video games do not cause obesity. Eating too much causes obesity.
If video games really were the problem conservatives believe it is there would be a dramatic increase in juvenile crime every year. Instead what the Department of Justice reports is a nearly steady decrease in those rates since around 1997. The same year Quake 2, an extremely violent video game, and Ultima Online, the world’s first multiplayer online game, came to the market.
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/
- Aaron M.
23. June 2009 at 14:47
I know, we, parents just want to please our kids that’s why we can’t resist buying what they like, but it’s our responsibility to educate them before letting them have it. There’s a lot of discouraging reviews regarding video games but if you’ll read this article from http://www.articlesroom.com/Games-105-144270-4-WOW-GOLD-SAVES-THE-DAY-How-RMT-helped-a-Starving-Student.html maybe it would give you a chance to let your kids explore the virtual world and let them learn mature things that they could use for their future.