Many people believe that playing games, whether it be on the television or on the computer, could be harmful to children. I believe that playing video games in general is not harmful to children, but certain games may be. Some computer games contain adult subject matter that young children should not be exposed to at an early age such as sexual material and violence. One thing that has been put in place to protect children from seeing too much violence or sexual subject matter is the video game rating system. There are several different ratings on games these days from E for everyone to M for mature that are based on age. These ratings allow you to see not only what age group the game is recommended for, but give you several reasons why the game is rated the way it is. Another factor that adds into the game control is the fact that children are not able to purchase games with higher ratings on them, but this however does not stop them from playing them. In the end I believe that parents should be the ultimate monitoring system on their children games. I would personally suggest that parents preview the games themselves before they let their children play them. This way the parents know exactly what their children are being exposed to. You do not have to actually purchase the game to preview it, you could look it up on a website like gamespot.com or by simply typing the title into Google. Playing video games is a part of childhood, and I don’t believe that it is harmful to children when the games that are being played are monitored.
I believe their is not enough studies yet on how video games affect our children in time. Our children I believe are playing way to much. A teenager plays about 3hrs a day 8hrs on the weekend. I hope its helping their minds to be able to work situations out in real life. Some parents don't care because they are home and out of their hair. But yes they need to have some kind of recreation. Also they need to exercise outside and leave the x-box alone.
ReplyDelete"that parents should be the ultimate monitoring system on their children games." This part i fully agree with. Like you said there are rating systems and this games also cost a lot so in the end it is the parents buying this games for the kids. Games can teach kids many problem solving skills but the parents are the ones that are the last step to stopping kids from playing violent games and the ones that will teach them useful skills.
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