Video Games: Impact on Children.
                     VIDEO GAMES: IMPACT ON CHILDREN
POSITIVE IMPACTS 
Working Together As a Team
• Most games today are played online and often involve several players from across the country 
or world, which encourages the child to play with others. This will help your child build the 
skills required to work together as a team and solve problems together.
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Better Decision-making Skills
• Games function in real-time, and most games are fast-paced and require the player to make 
quick decisions in a short period of time. 
• This helps in sculpting decision-making skills that are valuable in real-life fields such as sports 
or medicine, where split-second decisions under pressure are often required to be taken.
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Maintaining Accuracy in Quick Decisions
• Video games can help your kid maintain a good level of accuracy by learning to calculate all the 
dependent parameters fast. 
• This is an extremely useful skill, which is why even soldiers and doctors are advised to play 
video games to sharpen their decision-making skills.
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Coordination Between Hands and Eyes
• By playing video games, kids understand hand-eye coordination they begin to learn how the 
movement of their limbs affects the space and visual references around them. 
• Good hand-eye coordination is essential for daily life activities; it is also required in nearly all 
sports activities and can even be beneficial in puzzle-solving.
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Better Cognitive Functioning
• When a certain skill is repeated multiple times, the brain starts developing a structure and 
creates new neural pathways and transmitters to optimise its functioning. 
• In times when intense concentration is applied, the brain mould itself to be able to solve 
problems faster, which can ultimately also help in solving issues in real life.
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NEGATIVE IMPACTS 
Health Issues
• Spending a lot of time playing video games instead of indulging in physical activities can be 
detrimental to a child’s health in several ways. 
• A child’s cognitive development may get affected if he doesn’t get out and socialize in the real 
world.
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Socially Disconnected
• Even though multiplayer games exist, most kids end up playing them by themselves in their 
own rooms. This severely limits their interpersonal skills in real life, and they may prefer being 
by themselves and interact digitally. 
• Such kids fail to strike up conversations and feel bored and out of place at social gatherings.
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Aggressive Behaviour
• The violent content in video games and the instant gratification that they provide can cause 
the kids to be impatient and aggressive in their behaviour.
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Academic Issues
• The fun that video games provide is in stark contrast to a typical day in school. This can cause 
kids to prefer video games over anything else, thus pushing them to not pay attention to 
school work. 
• Even outside school, they may skip homework or studying for tests and choose video games 
instead.
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