Playing Video Games

As we know, now, video game is very popular in society. Whether your child, family, and friends play video games on a portable unit, a television or the Internet, excessive gaming can affect their life. As we know, now, video game is very popular in society Video game addiction can be as problematic as gambling and affects players as young as 8 years old, notes Keith Baker, director of Smith and Jones Addiction Consultants.

The first one is video games addiction can be harmful if your child is unable or unwilling to participate in any interests or extracurricular activities other than gaming. The On-Line Gamers Anonymous website notes that it may be a sign of an addiction if your child is constantly thinking about his next video game session, devising ways to get back to the game, abandoning former hobbies that don’t relate to video games or declining social events with personal interaction because he's spending time discussing video games on the Internet.  (Lakhdar Hagi, 2015)

The second one is relationships with friends and family members may suffer if your child is spending more time gaming than he is talking to or going out with loved ones. It is caused that every family and friends also need spend time together, not only that because they also believe game gives negative effect. The On-Line Gamers Anonymous website notes that gaming may be negatively affecting your child's life if he only wants to talk about video games, lies to cover up the amount of time he spends playing, and argues with you over his excessive gaming. (Danar, 2015)

The third one is video games that feature violent actions and scenarios may lead addicted players to be desensitized to the violence. It happens is caused childs cannot think complicated, they just copy what they look. Richard Gallagher, director of the NYU Child Study Center’s Parenting Institute, states that players who become engrossed in first-person shooter-style video games, for example, may adopt a detached view of society or develop aggressive thoughts and tendencies. (rafli yaumil, 2015)

The fourth one is long hours playing video games can negatively affect your child's performance in school if he's preoccupied with video games. He can fail to work at his optimum level because he's exhausted from a late night of video game playing. If your child devotes more than one or two hours a day to television or video games, he may have trouble falling asleep, have problems paying attention and have lower test scores than other children who don’t spend as much time in front of a television or video game console.(arizkifdanto, 2015)

Video games are very useless for developing soft skills and hard skills for your child.  All of effects from playing video games give damages in the future without we realize. So, for child do not waste your times for playing video games, your future’s life is very important than just waste your time.

NAME  : ARIZKI DIDIN FIDANTO

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Source:http://www.livestrong.com/article/278074-negative-effects-of-video-game-addiction/