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Video Games and Memory Loss

My 12-year-old son has a Sega DreamCast, Sega Genesis, Gameboy, Nintendo, and a computer with over a hundred games combined. He wants to play video games from the time he wakes up to the time he goes to bed. If he is not at home playing, then he is at his friend’s house playing with his Playstation II. When he goes to his friend’s house, I’ll tell him to be home at 8:00pm, but doesn’t come home until 8:30pm. When he gets home, I’ll ask, “ What time did I say to be home?” He will say, “Oh! I forgot!” This is why I think that video games are causing him to have short and long-term memory loss.

For example, when he wakes up he will ask me if he can play his video game. I tell him the same thing every morning, “No. After you get home from school, do your homework, practice your trombone, and we eat dinner, then you can play.” He will say, “Oh! Ok, I forgot!” He will then ask me one more time, as he is getting ready to leave for school. My


I think that I must hear “Oh! I forgot!” at least twenty times a day. And therefore I must repeat myself that many times a day. Consequently, as a result of repeating myself numerous times, I am finding that my short and long-term memory is improving. But I am starting to believe that the video games are affecting his long and short-term memory. Therefore I believe that along with all the other warnings video games have on them such as animated violence, mild language, suggestive themes, and may cause epileptic seizures or loss of consciousness, they should include “May cause long and short term memory loss.”

When I will tell him its time to get ready for bed, he will say, “ Ok! Just let me finish this one thing.” I’ll say, “You have five minutes.” When his time is up, I’ll say, “ Turn off the game and go to bed.” “Oh! Ok, I forgot!” is his answer. After he is done getting ready for bed, he will then ask me if he can play when he wa

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