Many parents are worried about the increasing amount of violence in computer games and TV programmes for children. Is violent entertainment harmful for children? What can be done to solve this problem?

Frequent violent scenes in various sources of amusement aimed at children tend to raise their parents’ awareness on

this

subject. I am inclined to believe that excessive violence, demonstrated at an early

age

may result in children’s improper mental development leading to the application of

such

patterns of

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

in the future life. In order to prevent

this

issue, it is crucial to apply restrictions in terms of

age

to the spread of

such

content.

Firstly

, children as still developing organisms possess an immeasurable mental flexibility. Not only are they constantly learning new information, but they may

also

absorb it regardless of the content. Being regularly shown fights or murders, they might consider them to be occasional,

thus

finding it appropriate to repeat them later. To illustrate, according to a recent governmental report in Russia, the majority of juvenile offenders claim to have been playing violent computer games before committing a crime themselves. To tackle

this

issue, it might be essential to define a certain

age

until

Suggestion

by

which children must be deprived of watching bloody scenes. The exact figure is to be negotiated, but on no account should youngsters aged less than 12 years old be authorized to watch

such

videos, be it computer games or TV programmes, inasmuch as at

this

age

children’s brain is almost similar to the adults’,

consequently

, any detrimental effects of the scenes of violence are not likely to affect the children’s development.

For instance

, a long-term research conducted in France has revealed that the level of cruelty in children’s

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

varies according to the initial

age

of facing invented violent scenes. In conclusion, I

therefore

believe that the abundance of violence in children’s sources of entertainment is highly likely to produce a distressing impact on their future prospects due to the children’s mental flexibility. Applying a ban for all children under 12 which is

critical

Suggestion

a critical age

the critical age

age

of children’s development is an essential measure to combat

this

issue.