The modern day lifestyle of children makes them loners or worse |
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Children today are over-exposed to electronic entertainment, junk food and over-competitive schooling. This is not exactly news but there's been some growing concern that this trend is detrimental to children's psychological growth. Turns out it is, and it's manifesting in various ways such as an increased number of students who have a problem with interacting and making friends. To further clarify the point, government studies have shown that toddlers left in a nursery for more than seven hours a day caused them to be bossy and disruptive. Other studies show that children who gorge on junk food will more likely misbehave. How often do both of these instances happen today? In addition, 70% of teachers believe that the use of games consoles, mobile phones, the internet, and MP3 players hurt the social skills of the children.
An organization called Save The Children claims that this problem could be very harmful to today's youth when they reach adulthood since it will hinder them from forming long-term relationships and interacting with colleagues at work. Charity school development manager Lorna Redden spoke on the difference between then and now and how it will affect the children of this generation:
Children have always played alone, for example with dolls or train sets, but these activities required a certain level of imagination - they stimulated their brains. That is not the case with modern computer games which do children's thinking for them and put them in their own little world. Without the ability to interact at a young age, they could struggle to form relationships later in life.
A long list of problems that children might encounter due to the modern lifestyle include depression, behavioural problems, autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Now, this is a wake-up call to those who are rearing their children: it has to change. You can read more on this via our read link.
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"modern computer games which do children's thinking for them"
Errr....no. That's a ridiculous stement.
I was thinking the same thing as Hunty. Why do people think we just push buttons for no reason. If they ever played video games they would understand they require a lot of brain power.
This is some old hag that has never touch a game with her old wrinkly hands. Get in a CSS game with 50 people and tell me I'm not thinking when I play...
"Without the ability to interact at a young age, they could struggle to form relationships later in life."
Who the f*ck wrote that bs, since when do games have completely no interaction in them? Some giant noob wrote this.
"but these activities required a certain level of imagination - they stimulated their brains."
Seriously, in games we receive such stimulation that for example, in a bf2 match where 30 people from the same team are making a massive front rush with tanks, helicopters, and mortar fire everywhere, we receive such adrenaline shot that u sonofab!tches cant even imagine it
today's children aren't any more screwed up than the rest of the world. mental health is at an all-time low.
Before games were popular, there was TV. Which do you think involves less mental activity? These scapegoaters really piss me off.