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Computer Games in the Child’s Life |
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Contributed by Francis Dower
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People play different games. They like it. Maybe because we all are inborn actors and want to be more than we are in our real lives. Among a great variety of all the games we play once in a while, my special concern is about computer games. Their primary meaning was to give us a sort of rest from a monotonous routine life. Sometimes this rest grows into psychological computer addiction. Not to let this happen with your child, observe some simple rules. Do not let him/her play the same game for a long time. Any person and especially children must have rest after playing computer games. The rest should be two or three times longer than the time spent at the PC. So, let’s do some Math. If you child is ten years old, he should spend no more than 20 -30 minutes at the computer with the time off for an hour or two. Never let your children play before they go to bed and of course night is meant for sleep not for sitting at the computer.
There are two opposite opinions concerning the effect of computer games on children. The first consider that virtual reality contributes to development of child’s mental abilities, forming useful skills for future work in an informational society. Then I do not see why so many students prefer to order custom research paper instead of using their own heads. They prefer to apply their brains in virtual reality than for practical use. I believe this is the psychology of many modern young people. Surely between writing a political essay and online games they will choose the latter. The others believe that computer games are the main source of juvenile violence. A lot of computer games contain the episodes with violence in their worst form. As a result a child does not distinguish the line between the virtual and real life. A teenager committing a serious crime does not understand why the killed can not be revived with a single click of mouse.
The most urgent and important issues of children and computer’s coexistence are discussed in the article by Jennifer Burg and Beth Cleland “Computer- Enhanced or Computer – Enchanted”, which can be found at imej.wfu.edu/articles/EDMEDIA2001paper/index.asp.
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