Positive effects of video games on children

The video games are well known for their anti-social and violent influence in our

children’s attitudes. But some research has proven that these negative effects are due to the

children’s excessive playing time, and more and more studies are being made to prove that the

video games can be an excellent tool for children’s hand-eye coordination, their problem

solving and analytical skills, and they can also help children in the social domain.

We can see some really good positive effects of video games on our children. The first

one would be the improvement of the hand-eye coordination. A player has to watch on the

screen while simultaneously, he is pushing the button of his joystick to make moves. It also

increases the speed, the agility of a person to respond to a stimulus, and moreover, it helps to

improve the motor capacity of a person. We can specially illustrate this idea with the console

wii, which has been released and built a couple of years ago by the brand Nintendo. With its

new gaming system, the wii has revolutionned the world of the video games. Before the wii

came out, the gaming system consisted only of pushing on a couple of buttons in order to

make the moves in the game. But the concept of the wii is different, it consists of producing

our own movement with the remote of the wii in order to make the moves in the game. It has

been so successful, that even some hospitals are using the wii to hill, to re-educate the persons

who suffer from some kind of cardiac accidents, cerebral accidents, or just to re-educate the

people who had an operation.

Another impressive positive effect of the video games is that they allow somehow, the

children to improve their problem-solving, management, analytical and additional skills

without children even realizing it. The need for these skills are obvious for a player because

sometimes, even the most simple game ( like a shooter game