Some people say that playing computer games is bad for children, whereas others say that it has positive effects on the way children develop. Discuss both sides and give your opinion.
Certain
computer
games
are undoubtedly good for children
but only up to a certain extent because most of the computer
games
introduced in modern society contain violence and mature content that is
bad for children
.These two phrases will be discussed in detail below
Firstly
, the majority of the computer
games
introduced in the 21st century contains mature subject matter,drugs and violence, these affect a child
's brain adversely, resulting in brain cells slowly dying,leading to headaches, inability to think,depression and worst cases suicide.For example
, It was reported in a newspaper from India in 2018 stating that a child
has killed his own father for not letting him play continuous hours of Player Unknowns Battlegrounds, which is an open-world shooting game
, this
news went viral and gained everyone's attention, India had to ban this
game
from its borders. Where certain video games
can really be brain-damaging to a child
, obstructing their logical thinking capacity.
However
, Some games
have a positive effect on a child
's brain, It enables children
to think outside of the box because these games
stimulate their thinking patterns and analyzes how creative these wonderful children
are, Irrational game
,developers tend to focus more on this
genre of games
than the ones that are brain-damaging.For example
, A child
from New Zealand named Tom became an interior designer at the age of 15, he said in an interview that it was a game
called home simulator that enabled him to think that creatively about how the interiors of homes are built and designed, that was where Tom started his journey to success. Hence
playing such
creative games
will no doubt increase the thinking capacity of children
while boosting their creativity and intelligence.
In conclusion, The disadvantages of playing video games
outweigh the benefits because only one out of ten children
like creative games
, majority of children
want shooting games
, violence and other mature content , leading to harmful consequences and behaviour,suicide to the extreme. It is the duty of parents to look into what their child
is playing in
the Change preposition
on
computer
and set restrictions on such
violent games
that gives a bad unethical influence.Submitted by sithumrandiya35 on
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