Negative Impacts Of Video Games

Children have the power to do several activities such as reading books, playing with friends outside, and swimming at the pool. Nowadays, technology becomes more popular among people, especially adults and children. Adults and children can access technology to enjoy their hobbies. For example, adults can reach easily any information and children can play video games any time and anywhere. Parents should pay attention to how long their kids are playing, and should prevent their kids from playing in their bedroom until midnight. Besides, is hard to control the type of video games that children play, but parents can be involved in choosing video games. However, violent video games can have negative impacts on children because video games can lead …show more content…
Children may try to mimic actions in video games in real life. According to Aacap.org, in violent games, children can see bad acts such as people or animals murdered, drug or alcohol abuse, and bad abuse. In addition, according to Ithp.org, there were studies done on more than 130,000 participants worldwide; these studies illustrate that violent video games increase aggressive feelings. Fore example, video games cause high heart rates and blood pressure, which affects children. Even though, children still love playing action and violent video games for their excitement. Also, according to Aacap.org, some children taking hours to play video games can create problems in their behavior. For example, games can reduce social skills, cause lower grades in school, and shrink family time. Indeed, if children keep playing violent video games over and over, children will definitely react in real life violently …show more content…
Children may give up doing amazing things such as playing outside with other children that enjoy the moment. Spending most of the time playing video games can lead children to addict playing and resist the desire to quit the game. For instance, according to Video-game-addiciton.org, another thing that leads to addiction of video games for children is the design of the game such as music, colors, and shape of characters. Also, according to Gousugamers.net, one reason for addict playing video games for children is the Internet. For example, the Internet in these days makes easy access to play online with other people around the world. Indeed, video game addiction affects children’s lives as any other kind of addiction and should be treated in therapy