The Positive and Negative Effect of Video Games on Children -- Oscar

Regarding the video games, there are numerous kinds of video games such as sport games, first-person shooter games, and crime games. More that half billion people play video games or computer games for at least an hour everyday. In the U.S.A, about 183 million of people play video game everyday. Therefore, playing video game becomes a most popular active around the world. There are a number of positive and negative effects of video games.

As regards as negative effects of video games, I would like to talk about playing video game leads to physical problems on such as obesity. There are two reasons why playing video game winds up in obesity. First of all, because children usually have more free time, they have more opportunities to play video game. If they play video game without outside activates, which help children releases energy, they will gain weight very fast. In addition, children usually don’t like eating green vegetables, which can help children vitamin supplements, and children usually eat fast food when they play video time because they don’t want to stop playing video game.

Moreover, many people argue that playing video game ends up in psychological problems, which means video games make children more unsocial, and violence. If children spend lots of tome to play video game, they won’t have really friends in really world. Also, children will have low speaking skills because they spend too much time to play video game. Also, video game leads to juvenile delinquency. Violence games such as shooting games and mafia games can affect children’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Now, juvenile delinquency is a major social problem in every country.

However, I believe that playing video game still has many positive points even though most people believe playing video game is bad for children. Regarding positive effects of video game on children, I can mention communication skills. First, children can improve them teamwork skill, which very necessary in children’s student life and professional life, because children have to communication with other players. Moreover, playing video games, especially online games help children improve them language skills such as specking, reading, and grammar. Those are very good for children’s future life. In addition, video games also good for children’s hand-eye coordination. 

Fortunately, playing video game also has some positive psychological effects. Many people argue that video game contributes to many psychological problems, which leads to juvenile delinquency. I can understand them because nobody wants to see juvenile delinquency, however, in my opinion; playing video game is good for children’s growing up. For example, if children win praise in a game, they will much build self-confidence. Also, children will learn how to take risks, which is a very important ability to become a good leader, when they play video game with other players.

To sum up, I believe playing video game is good for children because it has many positive effects such as improve them communication skills and good for them growing up. However, to the best of my knowledge, many negative effects also root in playing too much video game. Therefore, children shouldn’t play too much video game even though it is good for them.