What do you think children should do; play out doors or play computer games?

Answer 1

All activities for children can promote "growth" in different areas. Computer games can stimulate thinking and strategic skills, but you can't discount healthy, old-fashioned outdoor games.

Balance is the key

Answer 2

Well with the number of overweight teens increasing i would have to say they should play outside more. They can get the daily exercise and play with other kids. I dont knock people from letting their kids play computer games but i feel like they can learn by doing their homework. Last thing they need at a young age is bad health, bad eyes, carpal tunnel, and getting into something on the computer thats gonna warp there head. People dont have time to sit and monitor what their kids are doing how do they even know there kids are playing education video games i mean lets be real about it.

Answer 3

When i was a kid i played on my spectrum (showing my age now) in my room if the weather was bad, but in the summer i would play outside most of the time.
Maybe it's different for kids now as nowhere is as safe as it was 10-15 years ago, so parents may prefer to know that their kids are safe inside playing on there computers.
But parents should make sure that kids don't spend all their time glued tothe computer or tv or it is not healthy and antisocial

Answer 4

I know that my kids play outside and are active. I believe that kids these days are getting lazier and more overweight. I will not allow this in my house. I'm not saying a little time on the computer playing games is harmful but I am very against kids becoming comatosed in front of a computer/tv screen. I love my kids and want them to be healthy. I am a very active person, I love to be on the go and because of that my kids like to get up and go. ^.~

Answer 5

I think they should spend less time on the computer and more time running and playing outside. I only had a Atari 2600 when I was younger and I still spent more time outside, even in the winter. I had more fun there then on the game system.

Answer 6

Play on computer games outdoors. No, I try to get my granddaughter outside. Games are cool, but kids need real play also, with other kids and with skinned knees and fresh air and shouting and jumping.

Answer 7

defiantly play outdoors. its exercise as well as giving their eyes a rest!! my parents used to say to me that us children (me and my brother) have no life in to days society (and this is 10 years ago) because ewe don't run around and fool about as they used to as kids and that we don't even know the meaning of fun. i only realised what they meant when i visited south Africa one year, and i was sitting on a beach and i saw about 4-5 children playing (these children were barley clothed and maybe one or two had shoes on never mind any toys) and they looked so content-a feeling i only remember having if i had the remote control in my hand when i was a child

Answer 8

Outdoors. too many kids don't even know how to play outside using there imaginations and claim there bored cuz there so used to being glued to the tv in some form. growing up we never came home except for to eat then back outside til the street lights came on lol

Answer 9

I think they should be allowed to do both - but with limitations. It's so easy to fall into the trap of sitting them infront of the TV with games or dvds - it leaves you free to do other things whilst their brains fester, so you have to counter it with regular breaks of an alternative activity outdoors so that they at least get fresh air.

Answer 10

Play computer games outdoors.
No, both, though.
1 for exercise and physical development, the other for hand-eye coordination.