2 articles

http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html

-This article is about the myths of the affects of video games on the youth. Honestly, I've been a holder of many of these myths, due to the effects I've seen on my baby brother. According to the research on the article, many of the popular ones are debunked. The biggest part was about the violence and the effect on the youth who play the violent games. But according, "federal crime statistics, the rate of juvenile violent crime in the United States is at a 30-year low" and that takes into account the nintey percent of boys and fourty percent of girls who play games. These statistics show that, many children who play are capable of determining between play and real life, but readers have to take into account the growing minds of these children. Children at ages of say 12-15, playing these violent war, first person shooter games, are essentially growing up physically and mentally watching and learning the qualities of a fighter/assasin persay.



http://www.theparentreport.com/resources/ages/preteen/kids_culture/130.html
-Basically this article talks about the so called 'addictiveness' of video games and what you can do about saving your kids from it. Depending on whether or not you think it's a bad thing, like in the previous article, you cna introduce games to your children earlier and as an educational tool and provide time limits. This way, so when your children are older, they already have ground rules and such. This also helps to get kids off the games that play them for hours on end. Time limits and required outside time is one idea that seems to work. Kids who don't do it on their own need their parents to sometimes force them to do other things for their own good.