Impact of Video Games on Health of Children

Hi Steemians and the Admin of the community Mr. @dobartim!

I have take an observation in my surroundings that every one has a smart phone in his use. People are addicted of using social media, even during their duty hours.
In these days of pandemic as you know that all schools have been closed and only online classes are continued.
Students have been provided smart phones by their parents to attend the classes.
As we are well aware that many companies are hosting versatile video games and making them very attractive for all type of people.

(taken from Forbes)

Resultantly Students has started to play video games all the times. In a research by Newzoo in 2017 it has been established that around 2 billion people play video games word wide. If they are playing for a specific time there might be no problem but playing continuous is a problem.
Today i want to discuss some serious side effects of these games for the students.

Loss of Study

As they are all the time engaged on mobile phone, they spend all the time with their game/games. They dont get themselves spare for their studies. It is a nation destroying problem. This will ruin the coming youth to support the country.

Effect on Relationships

As discussed earlier, companies are investing heavily for promotion of their games and making them very entertaining. People of addicted to play games. When they are playing games they avoid to sit with their family in order to avoid disturbance. This distancing effect the relationships.

Health Problems

Playing video games frequently effect your health by a number of ways i.e.

1. It reduce or eliminate your physical activities and the person is stuck to a seat. Physical activities are necessary for the fitness of body.
2. Looking the screen for a long time may effect the eye sight of the concerned person.
3. The person dont sleep well in order to spend more time for their game. Lack of sleep and continuous focus effect the mental health seriously.

Violence and Video Games

Many games are based on fight with some arms & ammunition like

pubg

(taken from buff.game)

and many are with or without arms like

Taken 3

(taken from APKpure.com)
All of these games are making the impact on the nature of the children. These are up to some extent making them violent in their behaviour. Research show the background of some mass level criminal were addicted of these type of games.

Disturbed Diet and Compromised Growth

In a very recent discussion with my colleague Miss Hina Rafiq who is nutritionist told me that the children who are addicted of video games are much careless in their diet. As these players are mostly from growing age so it effect their growth. And they suffer it for their whole life.

Psychological Problems

In a research by Newzoo conducted in 2007, they took sample of 2734 person including male and female members to check the impact of video games on human psychology.
In their result they concluded that these games have caused depression, hostility and anxiety among the players.

Conclusion

I conclude with a famous quote “ Excess of Every Thing is Bad”
Excessive usage of video games is destroying.
This article has been written in the essence of social responsibility. As i am teacher, i feel if single person read my article and take care about his/her children and take him away of these games, i will think my struggles is paid out.

Take Care of Yourself and Your Children as well

Special Thanks to @healthrepublic @dobartim and @Dr. @enveng for providing this platform.