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Interesting Statistics About Video Games
Submitted by community on Tue, 29/01/2008 - 9:11pm
However, 23 percent of youth say that they have felt "addicted to video games," with about one-third of males and a little more than one in 10 females reporting the sensation, according to the survey by Harris Interactive. Forty-four percent of the youth 8 to 18 also reported their friends are addicted to video games, the survey said. The average child 8 to 12 plays 13 hours of video games per week, while teens age 13 to 18 year play 14 hours of video games per week, according to the survey. These statistics raise some interesting questions. While the majority of kids who play video games don’t become addicted, what does it say about our culture when one third of our boys have felt addicted to video games? How do video games and other stimulating products prepare our kids for the future? What child, after the excitement of 14 hours of video games each week, doesn’t get bored when faced with “spending time with grandma”, or some other activity that doesn’t provide intense stimulation? Furthermore, Japanese researchers found that playing computer games stunted the development of the frontal lobe of the brain in teenagers, which is a crucial part of developing impulse control. The tendency to lose control is not due to children absorbing the aggression involved in the computer game itself, as previous researchers have suggested, but rather to the damage done by stunting the developing mind. The full article can be accessed here... I don’t know about you, but when it comes to decreasing the chances of my kids’ developing as well as they can, I don’t like to take any chances. I don’t like to allow my own denial to impact their development—socially, physically, or any other way. Letting your kids play video games for hours each week? Their brains only have one chance to develop. Can you really live with that? Warmly, Mark Brandenburg Mark Brandenburg MA, CPCC P.S. Sign up for a free newsletter. It is free, they will get a free copy of the popular article, "150 Things Dads can do for Their Kids", and it never hurts to become a better parent! |
Greetings! According to a recent study of 1,178 children in the US, almost 9 percent of child gamers are pathologically or clinically "addicted" to playing video games. 
Is this true?:L
Is this true?:L
Actually it's today's biggest
Actually it's today's biggest worry. Because Child in every house is being addicted for game. They needs only video game. It is entertaining but some limitation should be there. Otherwise Children become lazy and it will impact on all the country.
i think that video games are
i think that video games are the future of learnig and that you are more capable of furiguing out problems u deal with in live because u already had to deal with some of them in a game so u know the outcome... btw email me if u are ready to play diablo-3!!!
Thank you for this article
Thank you for this article definitly put things into perspective and it was very interesting. Some people may not agree, but no matter what everyone is going to argue with the facts. And i have played a few video games myself but not many. You do see a difference in the children I have worked with that do nothing but play video games. A moderate amount is great. But the real problem is how long we let the children in our society play them. This was much appreciated and helped me a lot with a papter I was doing. Thanks agian.
Yet you may have better
Yet you may have better social skills if you weren't always on video games. Yet you may be the one that isn't on it all the time. And if that is it good for you.
Wow, you have to love the
Wow, you have to love the haters of video games. Video games have helped me connect to a dear group of friends that helped me get through school. We would meet at the local library then go to one persons house and play video games for a while. thats not all we did, we played football and other sports together and stayed out of trouble. This bond proved better then any training anyone could have when we entered a church flag football tournament and beat a varsity football team. None of us ever played for our schools or anything, yet the bond of video games brought us together.
Suck on that you dumbass parents who take away the fun of video games for kids.
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He died from lack of sleep
He died from lack of sleep and food. Seriously think logically. And dont pull the "my friend" thing, online when you say that it just means you are making it up.
Yeah this article is not very
Yeah this article is not very factual. A Michigan State professor did a survey on children that play videogames and it showed that child intrest and interaction with videogames actualy helps land a high paying job in the technological field
i dont really agree. actually
i dont really agree. actually video games can be great. they can be used as a learning tool that is alot more fun than doing one of those work sheets at school. i collect old consoles and i enjoy it, i dont completly agree with this article. where/how did u find out this information? i need proof before believing what u wrote. i think video games are great, and can make education fun!
thats not true some dude died
thats not true some dude died because he sat in front of the Tv playing video games for three days. and another friend of mine went into a coma recently and it was due to excessive video game playing.
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