Video Games Are Not a Bad Influence on Children

Video Games Are Not a Bad Influence on Children

 Majority of people think that video games are a bad influence on children and teens. Children need to know what is right from worng and the people that can teach them is their parents. Children need to realize reality from fiction. School teacher can also help the children with the reality. I believe that videos games do not have a bad influence on children. As a matter of fact, it’s quite the opposite situation. Videogames offer mental health benefits, improve social skills and enforce and incorporate academic skills.

            Firstly,video games can train our brain’s function. In certain realms of video game debate, the subject at hand is entirely dependent on the genre being discussed, such as the aforementioned issues that arise with violent video games that obviously would not apply to educational titles meant for preteens.Even aside from strictly "edutainment" games, though, playing video games can actually arguably increase certain brain functions. It can be conceded that it is not difficult to understand how such play can enhance specific mental activities, such as reaction time, problem-solving skills, hand-eye coordination, reading, creativity, and others.

            In addition to the physical benefits, there are also psychological benefits to playing video games. One of the most important psychological effects of video game play is that video game play can benefit children's psychological health. According to Erna Fishhaut, "'Video Games promote a feeling of mastery,'" and can "give a child intellectual confidence and help increase his or her motivation level" . In addition, They have been seen to help build self-confidence in the ordinary child, and give the child a sense of accomplishment.In addition, children who see themselves as failures also receive benefit from playing video games, because they provide the player with a sense of participation and excitement in basic life-like situations. These all are great things for children to have when growing up, and are all provided by video games.

          Many people think that playing video games are useless or has a lot of disadvantages. But they are wrong. It because playing video games has a lot of advantages, especially online games. It because online games can help us improve our foreign language. In online games, we can interact with other player from all corners of the world. We can chat and do a lot of interaction with them. We can say “Hi” to everyone that online so we can get more acquaintances and friends. So, if we play online games a lot, it can train us to use foreign language and able to write or even speak foreign language well. We can get lesson and fun in the same time right? It’s a double advantage.

          Last but not least,playing video game  brings a lot of  advantages for human being especially kids. As parents please don’t  stop the  kids for playing video games but don’t  be  overlimit. Parents must play a part in guiding their children's use of video games by choosing benefits and useful video games which contain no violence or sexual element.

By Joe Jie :)