It’s a cliché, but more and more children
seem to spend their time online, on their PCs, Play Stations, or Xboxes,
playing some type of computer game.
The traditional view of this seems to be
that children should be ejected from their seats, shown the garden, and
instructed to play outside-because playing video games makes kids into anti
social couch potatoes, with virtual war for brains.
A report published by the EU seems to
contradict this-
Toine Manders, the Dutch liberal MEP who
drafted the report, said: "Video games are in most cases not dangerous. We
heard evidence from experts on computer games and psychologists from France,
the US, Germany and the Netherlands and they told us that video games have a
positive contribution to make to the education of minors."
The study called for schools to consider
using games for educational purposes and urged parents to take a greater
interest in them.
Video games and computers have a positive
and negative effect on young minds. Anything in moderation is not a problem.
Parents and children need to be able to decide how much gaming is permissible
and what kind of gaming. Parents must teach their children what is good and
what is bad.
By: Katherine Alexander
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