Some people believe that when busy parents do not have a lot of time to spend with their children, the best use of that time is to have fun playing games or sports. Other believe that it is best to use that time doing things together that are related to schoolwork, which of the two approaches do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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of all, I would like to start by pointing out the education that parents give to their children, children usually do what parents let them do, and if they are allowed to play any kind of game,
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as adventure, action, horror, etc,
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they are exposed to any kind of content.
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makes some children confuse reality with what it is not, since they don't yet have reasoning, and
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makes that taste for playing violent games
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as they grow up they think it is okay, but it isn't. The same thing happens with TV shows, if a person without reasoning likes to watch action movies,
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they can confuse these aspects and put them into practice as we saw with many cases in the United States, where people over twenty years old went out on the street and stole, or got into cars in front of everyone on an avenue as they do in video games. I came to the conclusion that it depends on how developed a person's reasoning is
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since it isn't common for a person to think that the things that happen in movies or action games are real
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because they are both fictitious and dramatized.
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