Electronic Games have no negative effect on children, but watching TV does ?
A new study in the UK, involving about 11,000 children, has concluded that playing electronic games was not associated with increased risk of problems in children. However, they did find that watching TV for 3 hours or more daily predicted increasing conduct problems in children. (Read the full report here.)
The study looked at the children when they were 5 years old and again when they were 7 years old. So we don't really know how TV and video games would affect them later in life. The authors also mentioned that there were probably more parental restrictions on the age-appropriateness of the video games, compared to TV.
So in spite of the result of this study, I would caution parents to still exert their control in how long their children can watch TV or play video games. And more importantly, what their playing and/or watching.
Watch and play with your children. Talk to them about what they're watching and playing. Get involved in their life. TV and games are just accessories of life. Use them but don't let them 'parent' your children. Let your children have fun with TV and games but take control.
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