Can Children Play video game?!

    Video games are more and more popular around us, especially attractive to the children. Some of these can be educational, some of these are role player games to let children to know other worlds, and some of these make people cooperate to achieve some goals together…etc. Although here are many benefits in video games, children still shouldn’t be allowed to play video games for long time.

    Some people say that video games can help children understand the real world which we are living. Have you ever thinks the world in the video games is really the same as the world we living, or just the game companies’ delusions? Besides this, sometimes video games demonstrate to children how to bully others. Then, children will have bad image to the world and also imitate to humiliate the people they don’t like.

    Many claim that video games can help children to get many friends in different places or countries. Some parents allowed their children to get new friends in the virtual world; even they have no time to do the homework. Most of them spent lots of time to play video games and meet people who have different backgrounds, but they have no time to understand their own culture or folk games. Moreover, they didn’t have interactive with their family or classmates in the real world; they may forget how to communicate with people in the real world one day.

    Many experts say video games just a way to reflect the real world. But, in fact, some of the stories in the video games are not real happened around the world. These may conduct children to structure a wrong world in their brain and they may also learn the wrong system of values.  In another way, some people also argue that the video games can improve the children’s interpersonal relationship. On the contrary, children spent too much time in virtual world would forget how to connect and communicate with real person.

    Many parents always think that let children play video games could reduce the troubles which children made. But we need to notice that children spend too much time on video games would have misunderstandings and ignorant to the world we are living, and they even have no ability to chat with real people or express their real feeling and thinking to others. So, let children to spend too much time on video games would have potential threats to children is a very important knowledge to parents.