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The twenty-first century has made massive improvements regarding technology. The internet plays a vital role for schools, businesses, and humans. With the improvement of the internet, thousands of video games have arouse and gaming addiction has grew tremendously. These video games are at the tip of one's fingers. Video games are indisputably harmful to adolescents because they harm an adolescents' intellectual and social development.

Addiction is another highly debated issue. Several studies have proved that video games contribute to unhealthy activities. According to Buckley, obesity among the children had increased tremendously over the years (19). They argue that there exists a connection in extended video play and the development of physical pain. There is a belief that there will be decreased effect in education, termed “displacement effect.” As such, it shows more time is spent on playing games rather than studying or doing course work. Additionally, playing video games may result in attention deficits, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. As highlighted by Brook, a greater percentage of individuals suffering from obesity are highly involved in video games (22). Most children do not engage in healthy and physically demanding activities. It is evident that children involved in sports tend to meet new people and make new friends.

Most children today have access to devices such as television, smartphones, computers, and tablets. These devices can be used in a variety of ways, with both positive and negative outcomes. For example, preschool aged children may use a device to learn letters, numbers, or colors. School aged children may use a computer to conduct research, or watch an educational show. A child may also sit in front of the television for many hours, reducing physical activity, and become obese. I believe it is important for the parent or caregiver of the child to monitor the amount of screen time, as well as the content to optimize the benefits these devices can offer.

Technology has been part of our daily live more frequently than before. Screen time has been more popularly used on kids and adolescents. On a daily bases many kids seem to spend more time inside on their tablets, instead of having to spend time with other kids. This is a problem that is becoming more popular over the years,on whether kids need to spend that much time on technology or not. Parents either seem to have strict technology usage, or they either don’t. There has always been a huge controversy with experts, who either think that screen time is beneficial or could cause problems later on in life. There are many views towards this topic, from hurting kids brains, to helping them during school, and socially.

In the article, Attached to Technology and Paying a Price by Matt Ritchel, Kord Campbell’s family is an example of a family who is addicted to their devices. In the afternoon, the squad all completes in a video game showdown. They all sit around the TV, playing a video game on their Wii. Their youngest daughter has an ipod touch, and all she does is use it. She also has a laptop. Researchers worry that “digital stimulation like this creates attention problems for children with brains that are still developing.” When we start to use the device over and over, it becomes a routine. Not only is it a routine, it could be considered to be a habit to keep checking things over and over again. For example, somebody who relies on their emails for their job checks their email constantly. This could be up to 50-100 times a day, something clearly too much and to distracting from the outside

In her article titled “Are You Addicted to Your Phone? ...not to mention video games? (Psst: They're designed to do just that!)” she validates the position that video games are addictive. She mentions multiply cases where high school students failed to study or attend extra-curricular studies because of their addiction to video games. Scharper writes about several kids to have had negative effects from social media, from losing sleep, to skipping out on help at charity events, social media and video game addiction. After explaining the problem with video games and app, Scharper gives a few helpful tips for beating the addiction. She ends the article with a few victory stories from kids who learned to limit their use of video games and social

“Electronic games are now an everyday part of childhood and adolescence” (Olsen, 2010). Considering children and adolescence are our future, parents need to consider and monitor how these electronic games are affecting their child. There are more studies afloat that report the negative affects of video games over the positive effects until recently. Children and adolescents become addicted to video games easily so it is important to monitor what they are playing and how it is affecting them and their character. A recent study on many boys and girls reported why they are

“Electronic games are now an everyday part of childhood and adolescence” (Olsen, 2010). Considering children and adolescence are our future, parents need to consider and monitor how these electronic games are affecting their child. There are more studies afloat that report the negative affects of video games over the positive effects until recently. Children and adolescents become addicted to video games easily so it is important to monitor what they are playing and how it is affecting them and their character. A recent study on many boys and girls reported why they are

Children from two years old to the age of ten years old can be effected in a negative way. Sometimes parents give their children a tablet or their cell phone to entertain them while they try and get something important done. Sometimes they are out in public and their child is being too loud so they pull out the phone and let them watch T.V. on it so they can become quiet. The American Academy of Pediatrics explains, “Screens are distractions, not tools to soothe children. Television is not a “babysitter,” so parents should enforce rules about media use” (Roman). From the start of a child 's life parents should be careful about letting kids have the ability to watch too much tv or spend too much time staring at any type of technology. Parents tend to use their technology to keep

As the time passes, technology is expanding and developing many creative ideas. Unlike past, nowadays we have computers, TVs, internet, and many inventions that contain bad and good effects on us. Children used to interact with society by hanging out and playing sports with each other, but now as we can see a big percentage of children who play video games for many hours daily. Addiction controls life of people, there is addiction to drugs, cigarettes, alcohol or gambling, and there are some forms of addiction associated with modern life, such as Internet and video games.

Video game addition is a serious problem in many parts of the world today and deserves more attention. It is no secret that children and adults in many countries throughout the world play video games. According to Jennifer Seter Wagner, studies show 92 percent of under ages of 18 play video games frequently in the United States. A video game is an electronic game that needs the players to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or a computer device. There are two concepts that people have about addiction to video gaming: some people believe video games benefit children mind, but most people consider video games have negative side effects for all ages. I strongly believe that addiction to video gaming has negative side effects for teenagers such as wasting money, disobeying parents, skipping class to play games, and others.

Adolescents that play a lot of interactive games are less social and outgoing. “Several respondents mentioned that gaming online provided them the opportunity to get away, to flee from their everyday problems” (Frostling-Henningsson 4). These young people use their time to play games instead of facing their problems and fixing them. Instead they let their problems stack up and interfere with their lives severely. “Interest in other activities such as listening to music, art, or reading (57.0%), watching TV, DVDs, or playing video games (48.1%), and using electronic media including internet and texting (47.8%) were the most common reasons for not spending time outside” (Larson 1). Almost fifty percent of the reason children do not go outside is because of console games. Technology has interfered with teen’s outdoor activity times and reduced their hours outside. Video games are taking over many adolescents’ childhoods. Imagine if the only memory a child had was only about video games, they would probably regret wasting a lot of their time. Moments that cannot be replaced wasted right in front of TV and digital devices. This decrease in spending time outside and being with friends creates problems in their social skills. But going outside is not the main concern,

Video game addiction is a serious problem in many parts of the world today and deserves more attention. It is no secret that children and adults in many countries throughout the world play video games. According to Jennifer Seter Wagner, studies show 92 percent of under ages of 18 play video games frequently in the United States. A video game is an electronic game that needs the players to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or a computer device. There are two concepts that people have about addiction to video games: some people believe video games benefit children mind, but most people consider video games have negative side effects for all ages. I strongly believe that video games should avoid because addiction to video gaming has several negative side effects for teenagers such as wasting money, disobeying parents, skipping class to play games, and others.

Over the years many people say video games is hazardous for a child’s health. Even though there has been evidence linked to it, there is also evidence that video games can be beneficial and educational due to it training the brain. The problem with video games is that it can be addictive and can possibly ruin your health, or can it. “Video Games are highly beneficial because they give children a unique interactive learning environment” (Deutsch 1). With that being said, to some people video games might be a problem because it stop kids from going outside and doing activities, but the upside is that they can be interactive with kids around the world who suit the same interest. Interacting

The addictiveness of technology can start at a young age. Young toddlers are fascinated with moving objects from a screen. The easiest way to calm down an upset kid is to just give them a phone with a game or sit them down in front of a television. Now the kid is hooked, and the parent has an easy way to calm their kids down. If the parent isn’t careful and limits the use of technology, these kids will become dependent on technology. Manufactures even create technology targeted for kids. Tablets with built-in rubberized cases or smaller devices like cell phones that don’t have cellular capabilities like text messaging or phone calls. There’s no better way to get a young child addicted to a screen.