The Impact of Video Games on The Children

In this article,“The Impact of Video Games on The Children, the author discusses that spending too much time playing video games may affect on the children behaviors. He says that video games became more attractive to the children and adults because of the high quality graphics. In addition, the video game that contains of violent behavior is turning into aggressive teenagers and the amount of time they spend playing video game is more likely to increase violent behavior to the players. And then, he states that some behaviors that may (make) players more violent, more argumentative with their teachers, start to fight with their friends and influence to their grade in school. Moreover, he gives the difference of the negative effects between playing violent video games or watching violent movies which is the teen that plays violent video games allows to him to be a part of this action and after he reflects on the real life. Finally, he gives some advice to parents in order to help them to control their kids for example, selects video game to their kids and talk to them about how they feel about this or that game and manage their kids’ time when they want to play.

I totally agree with the author’s opinion that video games are one of the reasons that make children aggressive. The parents have to care for their children and give them the opportunity to explore and enjoy these types of games. It is good for children to play video games that assist them to develop their ability and skills. There are so many games that have no relation to violence, such as mathematical games or any adventure game to discover a particular area such as Africa to know how those people live and how their culture is instead of learning how to use the gun or knife to steal cars, banks or shops. The government still has to solve this issue by enforcing video game companies to eliminate them even if it is profitable for them because the government is responsible to protect its people before they get mental illness.