After reading the article, I think that parents should do something to help their children to control the amount of hours they play video games. One key factor that causes the rise in the number of hours playing is the advance in technology. In the past, Maplestory and Warcraft are gaining its popularity because of its addictive game factor. Now, facebook comes introduce games that are played in a way that is similar to real life situation. For example, a farming game, that requires the player to water their plants every 8 hours etc. If that’s the case, the user will keep on playing every 8 hours just to water the plants.
Video games are harmful as they put more stress in our eyes. The eyes are not rested for so many hours of looking at the screens. This will affect the eye sight and worsens it. As such, parents can choose to place their computers at the living room so that they can monitor their children’s playing time. Next, children who have already addicted to the games should be sent to councilors for treatment. But if the children are still at the stage of able to control to stop playing but plays for several hours, I suggest that the parents should stop them for playing for 1 week to weaken the urge of playing.
Playing video games for 27 hours a week is like spending 4 hours every day just to play video games. I wonder how much time Singapore students spend on studying. Let’s take a simple example, a student comes back home at 6pm, and he or she started playing video games till 10pm. How possible they can manage their time well and study?
To conclude, I think that parents’ plays an important role in ensuring their children is not addicted to video games. They should always remind their children about the negative impact for playing video games and let them stop themselves.
SAMSON AOW
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