REPUBLICA BOLIVARIANA DE VENEZUELA.
UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADOR.
INSTITUTO PEDAGOGICO “RAFAEL ALBERTO ESCOBAR LARA”.
DEPARTAMENTO DE INGLES.
ASIGNATURA: READING AND WRITING I.
SECTION 851.
ALUMNA: Briseida Sánchez M.


INDIVIDUAL ESSAY

VIDEOGAMES MAY BE HARMFUL TO CHILDREN


Over the last thirty years, playing videogames has become a preferred chilhood activity. Nowadays, children grow up playing videogames in the
morning, in the afternoon and often in the evening. There are some kinas of
videogames that can be good for children because they may be a friendly way
of introducing children to computer’s, and may increase children´s hand-eye coordination and attention to detail, but in spite of there are some kinds of videogames that can be inadequate because their violence content can have negative effects on children. Therefore, videogames may be harmful to children for three reasons : videogames may affect children’s physical health,
may lead poor academic performance and may cause negative effects in children´s personalities .
First of all, videogames may affect children’s physical health, including
Obesity, video-induced seizures, and postural, muscular and skeletal disorders
such as tendonitis , nerve compression, carpa tunnel syndrome , triggering epileptic seizures , heart rate and blood pressures changes. Studies about videogames ill effects in children have found that there are a corelation with
videogames use in thirth dimension and possible disorders in the central nervous system, which does govern the body’s funcionating. The electronic
screen in thirth dimension cause fatigue in few time, if children spend many time playing videogames, they will be force their body to soport this pression
but they doesn´t matter. Pediatrics recommend that children not spend more that one to two hours per day in front of all electronic screens in thirth dimension because may be harm for children.
Second, videogames may lead to poor academia performance. If children
spend too many hours playing videogames each day, when they try to do their homework, probably they will be tired . Also they careless their homework and they can’t conclude their homework on time. Furthermore, reading require concentration and mental processes,if children spend all their
free time playing videogames, they don’t practice enough time to learn how
to read.Videogames attract all their attention and interest, for this reason ,
children careless their school work. Consequently, thet will not learn their
lessons and could even fail in school.
Finally,videogames may cause negative effects in children’s personalities.
Violent videogames can lead to antisocial behavior in children, lead to delin-
quency, teach children that using violence is an appropiate way to solve problems, allow players to become emotionally involved with their character
and take joy in violence. Also videogames play on the user’s emotions.This
may stimulate the brains’s lobe, which does emotion processing, without stimulating the left lobe, which is more retional and puts things into context.
This may be the answer to why violent videogames can be correlated with agressive behavior . Researchers have found,the more realistic the game is the stronger the negative impact.
In conclusion, if children play videogames their health and their persona-
lities can be harmed. Furhermore, their progress in their school can be affected.