Andy Chalk said:A new report by The Sun [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2825896/Number-of-kids-injured-playing-computer-games-soars.html] ...
I can agree with that. Even considering the possibility of games having bad sides seems to be a taboo around here, but I do think that it's good for a kid to get out once in a while. Not getting out, hurt and dirty won't do your immunity any favors, and if you spend most of your kid time holding a mouse (or a controller) your social skills are going to fall behind, I can vouch for that personally. I can imagine the increased urbanization will play an important role in that too, but that's more likely a co-factor to the increase in video-gaming than in falling injuries.Andy Chalk said:As Game Culture [http://www.gameculture.com/2010/01/28/repetitive-stress-injuries-falling-out-tree-injuries-down] suggests, it could be caused at least in party by the "increased urbanization [that] has severely reduced the number of climbable trees over the years," but I think it's also quite possible that parents just don't let kids engage in those kinds of "dangerous" activities anymore. Whatever the reason, I'm inclined to go along with Professor Furedi on this one: Kids who don't have at least the opportunity to bust themselves up now and then - and not just by straining their thumbs - are missing out on an important part of growing up.
The_root_of_all_evil said:Andy Chalk said:A new report by The Sun [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2825896/Number-of-kids-injured-playing-computer-games-soars.html] ...
Oh America, please stop listening to our tabloids. We did years ago.
Or getting stabbed.The DSM said:I dont think RSI is as bad as smashing your head by falling out of a tree.
The only really harmful thing about gaming is faceplanting on to a coffe table whilst on Tony hawks:RIDE.
Same here.snowman6251 said:I don't want to sound like the blame the parents guy but I think part of that may come from parents.
The parents where I live, including my own, are so hyper-overprotective that kids live like prisoners. Little kids (I'm picturing around 10 years old or so) can't play outside unsupervised here, like at all, ever. Its ridiculous.
Yeah its ironic too since its not like I live in the sketchy city of Murderville. No I live in upper middle class white people with doctor parents ville and yet they're the ones who think their precious children will get kidnapped if they set foot outside where as people who do live in Murderville are like "watch out for the crackheads".Jagers1994 said:Same here.snowman6251 said:I don't want to sound like the blame the parents guy but I think part of that may come from parents.
The parents where I live, including my own, are so hyper-overprotective that kids live like prisoners. Little kids (I'm picturing around 10 years old or so) can't play outside unsupervised here, like at all, ever. Its ridiculous.