Video Games are good for kids

Let the Boys Play Their Video Games or Else they’re At Risk!

You shouldn’t prohibit your boys or your girls from playing their video games because if you do, you might be putting them at risk. Probably the boys and girls reading this may jump in joy. Some parents or adults may not actually approve of having their boys and girls playing video games. Others may simply limit their kids from playing it. On the contrary, some psychology doctors from the Harvard Medical School actually beg to differ.

According to Dr. Cheryl Olsen and Dr. Lawrence Kutner from Harvard Medical School, playing video games can actually help kids avoid getting into trouble than those who don’t play at all. At the same time, the two doctors claim that it’s not true that those playing video games are more likely to become violent. That notion should be buried as there is no evidence of violent video games turning people into criminals.

According to Dr. Kutner and Dr. Olsen, the violent crimes among teenagers especially in the USA, has gone down over the past 20 years. Teenage crimes has gone down as playing of video games has gone up. Thus, there is no relevance in linking violent crimes to violent video games. This is not just a simple statement that two doctors have claimed. They have researched and conducted tests to prove this. They came up with two years of study on more than a thousand children and five hundred parents to come up with such a conclusion. The US Department of Justice has helped greatly in funding this research to learn whether there is a connection between a child’s conduct to the violent video games they play.

The problem they found during the study is that those who play adult-rated games are those have been in a fight in the past 12 months. The thing however is that they are not sure whether the adult-rated games are the reason for an aggressive behavior or if it was just the other way around, meaning the aggressive children are the ones who are attracted to the adult-rated games. The doctors are just reaching out to parents to set risk markers when allowing their kids to play video games.

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