The Cause And Negative Effects Of Video Games

Are you concerned with your son or daughter playing too much video games? Well, you should be concerned. Researchers confirmed playing to much video games cause mental breakdowns and depressing activity. Also, video game addiction can cause health issues such as backaches, headaches, eye strain, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Lastly, long hours on video games can negatively affect your child’s performance in school. I believe gaming is terrible for you because, it can cause mental breakdowns or depressing activity, video games can cause health issues, and video games can negatively affect your child’s performance. First of all, video games are very unhealthy. Mental breakdowns and depressing activity is a serious thing. Children experience this
Video games can cause many bad health issues, such as, backaches, eye strains, and carpal tunnel syndrome. In paragraph 3, it states, “Video game addiction can negatively impact his health… Children who spend more than two hours a day in front of a television or video games in lieu of participating in physical activity may suffer from childhood obesity.” (para. 3 Christopher) Also, in the paragraph it states, “Pain and numbness that you child may feel in his wrists, hands shoulders and elbows.” (para. 4 Christopher) I believe kids need to stop playing video games and go outside and enjoy life. Spend time with their family instead of being in the virtual world. Virtual is a fantasy, not real life. Children need to learn that and take video games less seriously. Secondly, when I play a lot of video games a day I always get headaches and backaches. The pain usually makes me lazy and tired. Also, in paragraph 4, it states, “Video games that feature violent actions and scenarios I don’t get to spend time with my family when I’m lazy. Also, your kid will start failing classes if playing to much video games. Failing at school will become instant and hurt your child in the long run. Lastly, video games can give carpal tunnel syndrome, which could cause surgery. To many video games can put a bunch of pressure on your hands. This is why I believe video games are atrocious for you because video games are very bad for your
You definitely should be. Researchers found that kids who play too many hours on video games lack of their work in school. In paragraph 6 it states, “Long hours playing video games can negatively affect your child’s performance in school if he’s preoccupied with video games.” (para. 6 Christopher) Next, in paragraph 6 it states, “He (kid) can fail to work at his optimum level because he’s exhausted from a late night of video game playing.” What this means is the kid is not getting a full 8-10 hours of sleep. This can definitely affect how the child acts in school. He could be grumpy and tired. Also, the kids will have behavioral problems in school as well. Do you want that for your child? Then think about getting rid of video games. I would definitely not let my child play video games all night. So should you. Do you want your kids to lack school work and grades? Do you want your kids to pass high school? Make it through middle school? Make the video game stop