Computer games, tv, portable gaming devices including phones and ipods and DS's are a curse in disguise. This is like a blessing in disguise, only backwards. It seems like fantastic entertainment for kids or yourself, it gets kids out of your hair, it makes boring times less boring, it is mindless entertainment when you don't feel like thinking at the end of the day. It removes the need to talk to your friends or family when you are tired, bored or not interested, it is an easy way to get children to lay still to rest, or to while away hours spent alone.
It removes the need to think of something creative or interesting to do, to interact with family or friends, to even make friends, to go out and meet up with people.
After playing them for a while alone, when your family forces you to go out and socialize, you either take the device with you or spend the whole time wishing you were playing them.
After a short time, we get so addicted to screens, when we are with a group of friends, we get out our phones, or ipods and play with them. We get so addicted we spend hours each night playing computer games with imaginary friends instead of real games with our real friends. We get so addicted all our children can think of is playing their video games and a request for them to do anything different results in a day of grizzling. Children fight over their games, devices, space whatever. They blame each other when they lose, they yell and scream at each other and they don't even realize. Whoever is having a turn feels like it is only 2 seconds, whoever is waiting feels like it is hours.
In theory Screen devices are a good thing for convenient entertainment but they go a long way to destroying relationships, current and future possibility.
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