8 real reasons why video games are bad for kids

[DarthGohan1]

This is the stupidest article I have read about anything in so long. I'm speechless that AOL would actually publish this trash.

http://www.playsavvy.com/articles/features/eight-valid-concerns-about-video-games/?page=1&icid=100214839x1213971299x1200922557

 

[UltraByte]

Parents are mostly ignorant about video games. My parents used to be that way, but when I told them about Pokemon (when I first got the game), they saw that I learned a lot from the game (reading skills got better, my ideas on priority levels increased by a LOT, not to mention, me and my sister both had our own games, so we would share Pokemon with one another). They're still a bit bit skeptical with some violent games that I play, like Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, and whatnot, but they REALLY like all the sandbox games I play, like GMod.

 

[Furry Sparks]

I am ****Ing tired of websites putting an article on 9 separate pages.
I didn't read it just because of that =/

 

[DarthGohan1]

I am ****Ing tired of websites putting an article on 9 separate pages.
I didn't read it just because of that =/

yeah, i hate it too... they get 8x as many page views though so thats why they do it probably

and i totally agree that games aren't meant to be educational or whatever, that's not why you buy them... but they can be. pokemon's a great example... lots of reading, MATH, logic/thinking, organizational skills, the list goes on. the mom who bought her 4 kids 1 ds to share... is that the kid's fault for fighting? or was that the mom's fault for missing a great opportunity to show her kids how to share and help each other become better players of whatever game they had?

 

[Khengi]

Ok, why didn't they go over the REAL reasons why games (and everything else) is bad? I love games, but I can get a headache from too long, finger cramps... um, that's it. I know when to stop, it's the dang parents who don't know anything.

But number 7... I read something in that which made my skin crawl.

Like many popular toys, video games can cause strife between siblings. One UK writer reports that she gave her four kids a Nintendo DS handheld gaming system, with the expectations that they would share the system nicely. Instead, she says the system turned her "delightful, curious and funny children into argumentative demons full of aggression." While this is most likely an extreme case of sibling warfare, it also shows how games can cause tension in a multi-child household.

WHAT THE HEAK DID YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN?!! I'm 16, probably WAY older than her kids, and if you put one object that four 16 year olds love in front of us, a ONE AT A TIME object, we're NOT going to be pretty!

GOD! GAAH!

 

[Jeremy]

A lot of this article is actually plain inaccurate as well.

 

[SpikeHawk]

My thoughts.

Kids who play M and T games SHOULD know about that stuff. If they don't, they are bad parents.





Kids shouldn't play M games.




On exspinsiveness. buying one console, an extra controller and a game can easily run $300-$60- Why would you do that more than 3 times?

 

[coffeebean!]

Ha. I learn a lot from video games! (Take animal crossing, blathers gives good facts when you donate bugs, fish, and fossils) =D

 

[Jas0n]

It pisses me off how world of warcraft is now classed as the addition game, it's just like any other game apart from you get some idiotic kids playing it who decide not to eat/drink/etc while playing and that's their fault, not the game's.

 

[Link]

A DS is a handheld. It's PERSONAL.
She should've got a WII!!

 

[Tyler]

[quote="]A DS is a handheld. It's PERSONAL.
She should've got a WII!![/quote]People are just afraid of it cause it's a newer media. I'm sure when the Cave-Person discovered the rock, everyone was cowering from it, drawing pictures on the walls about how evil and bad they were for children.

 

[coffeebean!]

^^Ha. Totally. xD

 

[Zachary]

Wow.
1. A DS cannot be shared it's like a plate of food. It's made for one person.
2. Of course the TV is going to make you fat. Watching it, playing video games. If your sitting their your getting fat. I think this includes reading as well.
3. DON'T BUY A RATED M GAME IF YOUR 10. PARENTS LOOK AT THE RATING WHEN YOU STUPID KID ASKS FOR A GAME.