Video Games Seriously Harmful to Children?

Coltron writes "In an article published by AskDrSears.com, medical professionals go over step by detailed step why video games are so terrible for a child's developmental Health." From the article: "A green label suggests the game is suitable for all ages. Yellow or red labels signal the video may contain violence, sexual content, or bad language. While these ratings are a start, preview the 'E' or 'ALL' ratings anyway, since the level of violence the raters consider harmless may not be acceptable in your home." This is a bad sign for the gaming industry if a medical site is beginning to take the anti-gaming studies this seriously.

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Re:A Better Way of Putting It

[TripMaster Monkey]

It certainly does...after all, child obesity is at epidemic levels in America...I really don't see how the author can make the claim that parents have 'tamed' the TV. Of course, the author might counter that this only further proves his point (after all if we haven't 'tamed the TV', we're in even worse shape regarding video games), but it would have been nice to see this argument in the article (especially as it's more persuasive than any of the 'arguments' he actually cited). Instead, he starts out the article with a demonstrably false statement...kinda makes the remainder of his article even less fit for print.