You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Write about the following topic:

Nowadays many people have access to computers on a wide basis and a large number of children play computer games.

What are the negative impacts of children playing computer games and what can be done to minimize the bad effects?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own experience or knowledge.

Write at least 250 words.

• less real world learning, unablity to relate to real world
• possibly more violent

• time wasting/ tend to be repetitive

• more emphasis on real activities

• more support for learning games

Computers nowadays comes in many forms and shapes, some are portable and some are stationed. However nearly all of them can run some sort of a game, that can hook you to it. Children are the most affected by this trap, as studies show most of these games tend to be addictive and targeting adolescents.

Their impact is clear on teenagers where they end up living in those virtual worlds created by games, ignoring their actual life in the real world. affecting their ability to properly learn or even interact with others, as they are overly consumed by their game. That seems to be apparent with those games involving a lot of repetition in actions just to accumulate virtual reward points that gives a fake sense of achievement. To add to that unfortunately, these games are often violent, promoting the kid to be more aggressive in his actions. Leading to even more difficult problem to deal with.

One possible solution which has to start from parents themselves is to force some kind of balance, between the time the kid can spend playing computer games, and the time where he actually has to participate in real life activity where he gets to interact with his peers and do things other than computer games. Also parents, should help choosing games where its more directed to simulate the creativity and learning aspect of the kid’s mind.

Computer games are not all that bad, it is just that we need to be careful in our selection. Some games might be the reason in enhancing kid’s thinking skills, and some can lead the kid to adopt some bad behaviour. Companies should definitely make some more room for more useful games targeting brain stimulation in a beneficial way.