Online gaming, also referred to as mobile gaming could be a good technique to engross the kid or get like – minded people through an online community. Primary school students, High school students, Intermediate college students, you can see all into gaming these days. But it is not easy to judge the line between enjoying the hobby and letting it affect someone negatively. People who play video games frequently must find out at what point playing games become detrimental to them. The World Health Organization has tried to address this issue and has named it ‘gaming disorder’.

Screen time

A survey denotes that screens occupy the kids nearly 50 hours a week. It is said that too much time gaming will lead to poor school performance and it displaces after-school academic activities such as homework and reading. The pupils tend to have a teacher – reported learning problems and drastically lower reading and writing scores than the other boys.

Making the teens aggressive

It is tough to control the violent content in video games. The games comfort the minds since the flickering screens and the different sound levels set off a primitive brain response, they force the people to orient to the media so the children don’t have to pay attention like they do in a classroom. But some off track video games are the reason behind a kid’s school shooting, teasing others, pushing, name calling, rumor – spreading and fistfights instead of avoiding confrontation. They increase aggression and decrease empathy in kids.

 Making the teens vulnerable

Repeated exposure to violence has a lethal effect on children. Video games come with instant rewards for punishing the competitors. These not only develop hostility but also train a brain to retort to real-life problems with aggression. The children have become susceptible to these effects and they might become highly neurotic, less agreeable, less conscientious and unreceptive.

The amount of time spent on gaming is not a concerning point until video games have become meddlesome in life. The issue is ‘When’ rather than ‘how much’. But how much time can a child spend on gaming is still a question and the answer is not yet set in stone. The children can consider it as a hobby rather than an addiction. Once the children get addicted then they will have to face relationship difficulties, social isolation, sleeping disorder, depression, and obesity. But they can easily replace these video games with certain physical activities like jogging or reading a book or learning a musical instrument or even carrying out a science experiment. The children have more opportunities to explore the world and it is the right time for them to write things in the right way.