Nowadays many people have access to computers and a large number of children enjoy playing video games. What are the advantages and disadvantages of playing video games for children?

It is true that these days the majority of people

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easy access to computers and children,

unfortunately

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prefer playing computer games rather than going out and playing with their peers. Since we live in a century of rapid technological development, we should be grateful and thankful actually to its opportunities, but

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there are some drawbacks

of

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this

.

To begin

with, the world is revolving around technology now hereby substituting a stressful life with a stress-free one. One of the main advantages of

this

is convenience. Parents don’t have to take their

kids

out and

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look at them protecting

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dangers,

instead

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they can give them just iPads and be sure that

kids

are in safety.

Consequently

, parents have more time to relax after a tiresome working week.

Secondly

, another major merit to

this

is that it is a way of

distractions

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.

For instance

, whenever a mother is preparing food during weekends, she can always give her

kids

gadgets to play with and to keep them busy, because

kids

get easily distracted by graphs, activities and screenplays, so

this

can help parents to handle house chores and other daily routines. It would be way irritating and tricky if there were no indoor games. Speaking about disadvantages, they are

also

on the surface and easy to detect. The main drawback is that there is an emotional attachment to family members and

kids

don’t learn to socialize with other children and adults.

In addition

, youngsters can lose focus

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school work

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.

For instance

, I had a friend and her son

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due to the number of video games she has at home lined up for her every day after school.

This

can not be underestimated. In a nutshell, technology is advancing ad making an individual’s growth easy for us, but the setback can not be swept under the carpet.