Mrs. Dania Adra
English 203
Video games: harmless fun or danger ahead?
The mother in that
post thinks that video games can be really dangerous to children. I do not
think so. If parents teach their children from the beginning what is good and
what is not, then children won’t be inspired to do bad things from video games.
It all depends on how they have been raised. Additionally, parents should have
authority over their children: they should know how much time per day/week should
be spent on video games. This way children do not get addicted to video games.
As well, to be on the safe side, specific types of games should be bought by
the parents; for instance games that do not involve extreme violence. Finally,
I think video games do not kill creativity, unlike what is mentioned in this
article. Actually, when kids have to complete missions, they are forced to
think of different ways to solve the mission, and therefore are being creative;
and also, when being exposed to a variety of video games, kids can start
imagining more things inspired from these games.
I understand that
in some cases, video games can be dangerous, for instance when kids spend too
much time playing them and start slowly killing their brain cells, even though
this happens only when parents don’t have authority over their children and let
them play as much as they want. As well, when kids start using bad words such
as “I will stab you” as mentioned in the article, it gets scary for their
parents as using such phrases implies that these children have been exposed to
violence and might get violent in real life. One more time, this happens when
the games bought are not wisely chosen by the parents or when parents did not
raise their kids austerely enough.
Al
Hameli, Asmaa. "Video Games: Harmless Fun or Danger Ahead?" The National. Asmaa
Al Hameli, 29 Jan. 2015. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.
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