Why are video games bad for children?

Question

apparently they're addictive, and they train children to be violent murderers. what else?

Answer 1

Training children to be violent murderers is not always correct answer ,because some software are not always violence oriented. In my view while playing, human come to lose contact with real life ,where we have history of millions of millions of years of evolution behind us.So (s)he becomes an inhabitant of what psychologist may call virtual world. And in that we lose real human desire like sex (reproduction) or ability to empathy or some other HUMANE sensibility

Answer 2

Video games actually can be good for you

Several times a week before dinner, Janet and Jim Herlihey of West Chester, Pa., remind their sons Michael, who is 12, and Paul, 10, to get in a good half hour of video game time before eating.

Parents telling their kids to play video games? That's right. The boys are among the estimated 5% to 7% of children who have attention deficit disorder, and video games, as prescribed by their psychologist, have helped them learn to focus, their mother says.

In addition to a Sony PlayStation 2, the family has some special equipment: a S.M.A.R.T. BrainGames system that consists of a special controller, a helmet with built-in sensors for monitoring brain activity and a Smartbox that receives the brain signals.

As long as the boys remain calmly focused on the game, it plays normally, says their Philadelphia psychologist Domenic Greco. But if a player's mind wanders, the Smartbox sends a signal to the controller hindering acceleration or character movement in the game.

The Herliheys connected online with Greco, who designed the system by adapting a similar one that NASA used for pilot training. After treating the boys last year at his office in Philadelphia, he recommended the at-home video game therapy.

Answer 3

They are not inherently bad. They are fine if they are not played excessively and are in balance with physical activities, social life, and school. In fact video games help develop hand-eye coordination and certain problem solving skills. They problem arises when children spend several hours or more playing video games each day, they neglect the other parts of their lives, and their world is overtaken by video games.

Answer 4

a million they are able to be seen undesirable for toddlers by using fact toddlers are actual prompted. they do no longer consistently understand suitable from incorrect, or fiction from actuality. #2 that is been suitable to weight problems. toddlers who play video games workout much less. #3 it could impression toddlers socially. they won't care to spend time with pals. those are basically some concepts. the 1st could be your maximum effectual; perhaps you will desire to wreck it up into 3 diverse concepts in case you do no longer basically like the others. wish this helps :o)

Answer 5

Mostly because negligent adults don't even check to see what its rated and why they just give it to children because they don't have enought time to spend with them themselves and once children get a hold of these so called violent videogames the parents don't even watch them play it to see how it is.

Answer 6

they are not bad in a texas university reseerched other files and came out with a conclusion that wacthing real world violence makes them killers not the video games because the have brains that know the frigging diffrence between real and friggin fake violence


also these peoples ansewers are sad cause the answers suck!!!no offense

Answer 7

your already mistaken video games don't teach children to be murderers,its how they interperet, beacuse if everybody did anything and i mean anything they could take it the wrong way,to be off subject look at mariyln manson hes been blamed for columbine,bs,doom was blamed for columbine,bs, video games arent bad for children if they cant interperet correctly everyone can take something the wrong way

Answer 8

no no no this is all wrong. video games are NOT bad for children. its children who make video games bad for them. This is not just for children only. It applies to everybody.

Answer 9

Actually, I read about a study (yea i know this isn't too credible but I think it was in Newsweek or something) that said that they are good for kids because they help with cognitive development...or something to that effect.

Answer 10

As long as they have a healthy social life, who cares if they play video games.