This question has been floating around in parents heads: “How are all those video games my child is playing effecting him”. Ever since the invention of the first arcade machine. We have research, but that continuously changes because society continues to change. Cheryl K. Olson in “Children and Video Games: How Much Do We Know?” and Emily Hughes in “Effect of Video Games on Child Development” both had the same opinions on the topic. In “Children and Video Games: How Much Do We Know?” by Cheryl K. Olson there were many different serves, tests, and studies done on a range of children. Resulting in both positive and negative effects on an impressionable child. In a survey, children were asked why they play video games, “"To relax" was chosen as a reason to play the majority of boys and close to half of the girls. "To get my anger out" was selected by 45% of boys and 29% of girls” (Cheryl K. Olson 2007). For most children, playing a video game is an escape from the real world. A place
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Hughes states “students who had played a violent virtual reality game had a higher heart rate, reported more dizziness and nausea, and exhibited more aggressive thoughts in a posttest than those who had played a nonviolent game” (Emily Hughes 2014). The violence overcomes the child and that feeling starts getting addicting. That then causes them to continuously play: “kids are spending too much time playing the games rather than physically playing outside” (Emily Hughes 2014). Childhood obesity has become an epidemic and video games are single handily increasing that number. Even though video games have a bad rep, they still help children with much-needed skills, such as a “number of cognitive functions and may also contain social benefits” (Emily Hughes 2014). As long as we monitor our children’s video game use, there should be no
Hughes states “students who had played a violent virtual reality game had a higher heart rate, reported more dizziness and nausea, and exhibited more aggressive thoughts in a posttest than those who had played a nonviolent game” (Emily Hughes 2014). The violence overcomes the child and that feeling starts getting addicting. That then causes them to continuously play: “kids are spending too much time playing the games rather than physically playing outside” (Emily Hughes 2014). Childhood obesity has become an epidemic and video games are single handily increasing that number. Even though video games have a bad rep, they still help children with much-needed skills, such as a “number of cognitive functions and may also contain social benefits” (Emily Hughes 2014). As long as we monitor our children’s video game use, there should be no