Limit video games

Evrything in excess is not good for our minds. Video games have been somehow linked to violence. If we think about video games they should play a role as a form of entertainment but for some kids it means a complete training.

there are a lot of recomendations to parents one example is the one given by

the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendation that parents limit screen time to no more than two hours per day includes television, videos/DVDs, and video games. If your child currently plays several hours of video games each day, either through a video game console or handheld device, they suggest that you to put a plan in place to limit video games at home and replace that time with other activities. For example:
and parents should allow your child to play for a set number of minutes per day. For example, you might decide that twenty minutes per day is sufficient.

Another alternative is to set two days out of the week as "video game" days. You might choose one weekend day and one weekday and find that the numbers, over the course of the week, even out.

Bring handheld video games to social events only on special occasions. If the device accompanies every trip to a friend's house and each errand you run during the week, it's likely that your child is racking up quite a few hours of playing time.

When your children's friends gather at your house, limit the amount of time they play video games. After twenty-thirty minutes of taking turns playing, suggest that the children move on to something else.

Don't forget to include computer games when you're thinking about how much time your child spends on video games. Even the best educational games shouldn't be played continuously.

I believe that the role of parents are significant but I also think that the governments local ones should get involved with this situation and work on some sort of programme to control the amount of hours that kids spend playing.
Ourdoor activies help social interaction that is something that many kids that were part in violent acts throught the US presented as a characteristic.

In Argentina there hadnt been situations as the ones in US highscools that involved shootings and minors using guns. A recent case shocked a small town a kid who loved video games had to pass the limit of shooting virtual characters he needed to go beyond that and decided to take his dads gun and kill classmates in school.

small towns can be boring but teachers and parents need to work on limits and on understanding that it is not normal to spend 8 hours a day playing over an over a video game that involves violence.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFCUSZ8sDMw