Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Changing technology

I was really interested last class when on our video they had a child psychologist talk about how they see tons of patients with ADD or ADHD seeking medication because they can not stay still or pay attention, meanwhile they can play video games for hours on end. This shows two things, that we are doing something terribly wrong with raising our children and they play too much games or that we need to jump on it and make those games educational and beneficial. I personally do not know which way we should go with this. I feel that it is great that the health world is going beyond "Operation" and having realistic surgery games and video games for cancer patients that are actually fighting and beating cancer. That is exciting and if it gives children hope and make them feel better than great, but for the average child that sits on their ass all day and plays video games, I do not necessarily think that they should be given more games that are better (health and educationally wise). They need to get outside, enjoy the air and stop being raised as pansies.

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