Nowadays many people have access to computers on a wide basis and a large number of children play computer games. What are the negative impacts of playing computer games and what can be done to minimize the bad effects?

It is irrefutable that technology is advancing day by day and people from all over the world get easy access to

this

. Even, nowadays

children

are using technology for working with the programming language, playing

games

and so on.

However

, playing

games

on computers has detrimental

effects

on the youngsters. Playing

computer

games

has many harmful

effects

on

children

's life. Sometimes the

children

's are becoming so addicted to those

games

that they can not lead their life without these. To give an example, in Bangladesh and India, recently many of the youth have been obsessed with 'Pubzi'

games

that resulted in a higher rate of child mental health problems in those countries.

Consequently

, insomnia, depression, stress rate are increasing in recent days as compared to the previous decades. Another fact need to be considered is that

children

's are always opted to mimic the characters or role of another person.

Children

's are trying to copy the actions, motives etc. from the

games

as they played. In the Netherlands, a child has shot their relatives by using machine-gun after observing the same thing in the

computer

games

,

for example

.

Therefore

, it has a harmful impact on

children

's psychology which is really alarming for the future. Minimizing the bad

effects

of its is not straightforward. The combining efforts of both

parents

and governments can alleviate the problems. Many studies have been shown that parental behaviour has an impact on their

children

,

for example

, if

parents

give a little bit of time to playing

computer

games

,

then

children

also

will not use computers to do so.

Moreover

,

parents

can take control of their

children

so that they can not play

computer

games

without their permission. The Government can create many recreational facilities as a playground for the

children

with the aim that

children

can pass their time in those fields in lieu of playing

computer

games

. To conclude, playing

computer

games

have substantial detrimental

effects

on child mental health.

Nevertheless

, taking initiatives by policymakers and

parents

will be helpful for reducing

this

effect.