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   Anonymous Granger, Mar 28th, 2007 @ 3:43am

   
   

   I don't think video games are good for kids. They say they might be, but when they get older, and they need to revise, but their not revising their playing video games, it makes you wonder whether they actually want to pass exams, or to play on video games all their life!!

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   raper1, Jun 7th, 2007 @ 5:19am

   
   

   i raper young gamers!!!!!!!!

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   Re: consideration

   

   teenager, Jan 24th, 2008 @ 5:21pm

   
   

   listen you need to look at this from a non-biased view. you say video games are not good for kids, but your only looking at the negative. yes some kids are violent, but do they ask the kids how they were raised. maybe they had a violent upbringing. there are too many factors that make up how a person acts. you are allowed your opinion but think of this, the number one selling computer game in the past few years has been civilization 4. kids build civilizations. yes they may have to grow a army and attack, but they learn so much from it. all we nee dot do is talk with the kids and be interested in the games themselves. explain why you should not do what they do in the games. but don't let them think what they are doing is bad, instead focus on the positive and try to build from there.

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   Re: Re: consideration

   

   cubaricangorilla, Feb 29th, 2008 @ 6:18am

   
   

   I agree with you. Many games can actually be good for kids, in limmited quantities. Even some of the more violent games can help sharpen quick thinking and problem solving abilities. When games become bad for kids it's usually the fault of the parents for not keeping better control over their kids.

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   you MUST be kidding?

   

   sgt, Mar 22nd, 2008 @ 9:18am

   
   

   I see toddlers screech if you pry them from nintendo ds and gameboys! As kids get older, they become more engrossed with the games and become LESS social or able or willing to do anything else to play. When I have 7 and 8 year olds over to play, they only last for so long, maybe an hour, before they want tv or video games--at which point, the playtime ends. They sulk. There is now a huge PUSH to get kids OUT to play and get active. This wouldn't be happening if we rejected video games; families have let them be virtual kiddie tamers; like TV, just a different medium.

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   R U kidding me

   

   Zack Martinez, Apr 15th, 2008 @ 12:48pm

   
   

   THer is no way that video games are good for kids they are violent and they tend to set bad examples for children !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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   no way

   

   Isacc Holt, Apr 15th, 2008 @ 12:54pm

   
   

   There is many sides to this "complaignt" okay

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   no way

   

   Isacc Holt, Apr 15th, 2008 @ 12:54pm

   
   

   There is many sides to this "complaignt" okay

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   No More Bias

   

   Concerned for Justice, Nov 18th, 2008 @ 3:58pm

   
   

   Anyone who's ever been a parent should not be allowed to post on this topic. In fact, the most unbiased position would likely come from someone who is under 25, has played a very wide variety of games, does NOT play video games as a hobby or profession, is NOT in any way involved with the video game industry, and has lived in an environment not isolated from technology and the internet. The older generations of today are incredibly biased and resistant to change, but a gamer would try to justify himself.
   
   The idea that video games are bad for you (any more than a violent BOOK) is ludicrous. It's just as bad as the argument that Harry Potter is evil, and Columbine was caused by a dungeons and dragons "devil worshiping" session.
   
   Geez...

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    can video games afect your brain

    

    Anonymous Coward, Dec 4th, 2008 @ 1:43pm

    
    

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 10th, 2009 @ 5:59pm

    
    

    make your child have an hour of games

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    Corundum, Oct 5th, 2011 @ 5:32pm

    
    

    Playing video games has children use logic to solve puzzles(Even the most violent video games include difficult puzzles that require logic) or how to defeat the boss of the level, and all games promote perserverance in order to beat the level, win the race, or to defeat the boss. They also promote other skills but i dont feel like listing them all

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