Parents today condone the use of video games by their children in their own selfish interests. These games, which are often of a violent and mature nature, are used by parents as a device to keep their children occupied. Unfortunately, parents are often unaware of the negatives associated with exposing their children to such video games. Technological advances of videos games in our contemporary society today have lured in our nation's youth. This addiction can cause such negative consequences like the inability to focus on school or responsibilities and extremely dangerous, violent behaviors.
Children and teenagers grow a huge addiction to video games causing them to forget or not care about the more important things they need to do. Rather than coming home and sitting down and doing their homework they run straight to the controller. Than, the next day they scramble around trying to get their work done before class. They also feel they can study and play at the same time until they get their tests back and they wonder why they failed. It also becomes such an obsession that they can't even keep their mind focused in or out of school. Their minds are to busy running through codes and trying to figure out what they did wrong to get killed by the "enemy".
Young people get so sucked in by these games they would rather sit inside and beat the next level, than do more productive things, or things they are told to do. If their parents ask them to take out the trash the answer is always "in a minute" or "after I beat this level". Soon enough that minute becomes an hour and that level becomes ten. Than after about the 100th time of being asked, they angrily put the game on pause and pry their bodies off the couch. Grab the trash and bring it out, while bickering some rude comment under their breath about how unfair parents can be. Also, you can forget about the simply enjoyment kids used to get by playing a game of tag or running around doing a sport.
