Neovox # 2

Okay so for my second Neovox I decided to talk about the negative effects of video games. I feel as if when most people discuss the advancing technologies, they fail to look at the negative side of things. I also decided to write about video games because I have personally witnessed a lot of the issues that I discussed. When working with children I have witnessed parents who fear their children will become obese because they enjoy playing video games rather than playing outside with their friends. Obesity is becoming a more and more common issue among Americans. The number of obese children are increasing, and increasing fast. I do not mean to blame all obese children on video games, of course there are other important factors that contribute to obestiy like children's eating habbits, but the lack of physical activity plays a role also. I have also witnessed parents who fear that their children does not have that many friends in school because they are always playing video games and this results in them not building on the necessary social skills. Again there are other factors that could play a role in their child's lack of friends but the parents feel as if video games play an important part in their child not having friends. Another huge thing that one will run into when working with children is aggressive behaviors. When someone witnesses an aggressive child and talks to the parent's about what may have caused this behavior, some say violent tv and video games. There has been many cases done that proves that children who play violent video games for more hours are more likely to have aggressive behaviors. When parents are concerned as a teacher or an assistant teacher at the time, I would suggest simply monitoring their child's video game playing. If the parent is really that concerned they can take the video games away completely or they can set a limit of the time their child is allowed to play. Now there are ratings that go on the video games to give parents the opportunity to know what age the game being looked at is appropriate for. There are always ways that parents can get around the problems at hand, all the needs to be done is for the parent to take the necessary action.