Video Games are essential part of our families; parents as well as their kids spend hours in front of their TV’s playing their favorite games. However, their kids’ brains are still developing and at this stage their behavior is being shaped. While society believe that Video Games can cause them to act inappropriate there many other factors having greater impact on their behavior.
People in our world are uninformed about the video games, and many of them believe that video games cause young people to act inappropriate. Moreover, people are often afraid of what they do not understand. Even when they do understand they don’t want to take responsibility of their kids’ behavior. How many times do we see parents blaming everything around from school, friends, and society for their children behavior? While they don’t see, they are the ones who are primary responsible for their children’s behavior. Can’t we link the same situation to Video Games as another reason to blame for their children behavior. On the other hand, we may say some Video Games are violent, and our children are playing those games. Do we as mentors, guardians decide what kind of Video Games are we going to buy for our kid? We see parents buying M (mature +18) rated Video Games for kids who are 12 years old, and the reason why did they bought is because the kid wanted that games. Don’t we are the ones who expose our children to violence, and if anything happens we are trying to get away from our responsibilities and blame everything/anything around? Additionally, there is no proven correlation between violent behavior and video games, also there are many benefits of video games. Many people don’t know that video games have health benefits; by playing “Dance Dance Revolution” a friend of mine lost almost ten pounds. This game require from player to move all the time, by following the steps on a specially designed mat connected with the game