Parenting May Be Key in Children’s Use of Video Games

Whether its how often children play them or how often parents buy them, its clear that overindulgence in video games begins with amount of parental involvement.
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Jade I believe that video games can be a positive thing if you choose them wisely. Even though you only focused on the negative effects of them, I believe the positive effects outweigh them. It is a fact that over 50% of video games are non-violent. Video games can do an important role in teaching kids many beneficial things such as spelling, reading, critical thinking, creativity, and many other useful life skills. Educational and Strategic games are available everywhere. Even the game Rock Band or the Wii games systems would be considered educational. They teach children how to learn music and play sports. My point is that video games can help people and don't have all negative effects on children. If you need help finding educational video games just look online or ask at your nearest video game store. 1/24/2008
Bill Jessica tell me , in what main stream American game did you see rape..... the answer is none before you have to think about your propaganda any longer . 8/21/2007
Jessica Growing up, my mother never allowed my brother and I to play video games so we never had them in the house. This was long before they got to the grotesque norm that fits the GTA series and countless others. Instead we played board games, card games, jump rope games, word games, puzzle games and memory games. Personally I don't have a problem with the kinds like Tetris where you stack bricks in rows and get points for getting rid of the most rows, or lining up jewels in rows...but when parents see no problem buying a shooting-raping-stealing game for their kids, I think we need to question either their intelligence or how much they're actually paying attention, or maybe both.

Personally I think the parents need to use their brains a bit more before rushing off to buy the latest killing game just to make their child happy. Kids can benefit from games where they use their minds, and exercise their bodies, and don't have to kill people, steal cars, have sex with prostitutes and kill them. On average every video game costs $50, with that money the parent could buy 2 board games, a jump rope, a skate board, a hula hoop and a deck of playing cards. The video game systems from what I've seen tend to cost $300, instead of the latest console, parents could put money like that to for their kids a bicycle, a trampoline, a 10-in-1 outdoor game set, a soccer ball, a baseball set, a skateboard, a football, and probably 5 or 10 board games. I think parents need to take a minute to stop and really consider what else to do with that kind of money than get something that will keep their kids in front of the TV more than they are already.		 8/21/2007
kelly i think games can be bad and good. 7/11/2006
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