From the previous years, many reports already stated the increasing number of children who are inclined to video games. They say that children are already losing their focus on to how they should meet with their requirements in school or to how be socially acquainted with others. Unfortunately, despite of the increasing reports about the said problem, psychiatric associations still do not treat the addiction as an official diagnosis as a problem or hindrance to their development.
Children nowadays are bombarded with projects, activities, and involvements that push them to their limits until such time that they fail to enjoy and have some leisure time for themselves. Parents give their children time to relax in a way that they can cope up with such activities. Children use this time of relaxation in playing video or computer games. But, because parents also have activities of their own. They fail to recognize the growing addiction of their children to video games until such time that these children already neglect their social life just to win a battle in a video game. There are also time when children apply their 'video gaming' in real life. For example, a child becomes physically abusive to his playmates because he is a great warrior from the famous game "Warcraft" of DOTA or he literally shoots another boy because he thinks that this boy is a terrorist from the game "Counter Strike". On a deeper level, children tend to be socially isolated from others in such a way that they do not know how to react to daily news or cope up with the 'talk-of-the-town'. For example, an 18-year old boy acts like a 9-year old one because he spends all his hours playing and playing games. Lastly, the effect of gaming addiction that totally bothers the people especially parents is the fact that children are willing to sacrifice or lose a life of another person just to satisfy their wants to finish and be the "champ" of the game. Research says that more children addicted to gaming are ready to risk their life in order to play. In accordance, a kid kills or burns his parents because his parents tell him to stop playing. With these reports, many are still in surprise that such organizations still tend to ignore it.
Children are now threatened to lose their social life because of video games. In conclusion, even if organizations ignore this problem, it is up to the parents' responsibility to control their children from the said addiction. It is up to them on how they will assure that they can change their children's way of thinking. And last, these children should also think to themselves if what will happen to them if they will continue playing. They should also have the courage to do their part in controlling themselves so that they can stop or prevent it form ruining their life until the end because it will be their loss if they let video games to overcome their life. These children should make sure that in many ways, they can balance their gaming to any other activities of their life which are school, family, friends and relaxation. You, yes you. Will you let gaming ruin your life?
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