Gaming has become part of some peoples everyday life and the media only encourages it more. The Playstation 3 commercials maybe funny but they are there to grab your attention and to make you think about it for long periods of time. You may not notice it until you are seeing it again with your friends and are telling them how funny it is. Then you choose to ask them questions and do some research on the item itself. Media is a bid influence on gaming but it alone doesn’t lead to an obsession or an “addiction” for video gaming. The only one responsible for that is the player and in some cases the parent.
In five minutes of walking down the toy aisles in a store you could easily find the aisle with the toy electronics. If accompanied by a child you’ld find out what is cool and not. There are four education gaming systems that target children between the ages of three to ten. Even with four systems, combined there are 30 or more games for them. Parents encourage this kind of gaming but then as they get older they think other gaming systems are okay.
Even with the parent’s permission to play games kids now have free reign and parents slowly start to agree with what the kid wants. It is only after the kid has been playing for multiple hours on end that they think something is wrong. What do they look at first… the internet. There is no medical term as video gaming addiction but parents read articles from other parents who have had children with similar problems and they say that IT IS video game addiction.
Kids learn to use things around them to cope with other thing and video games are readily available to solve all your problems…for the time being. Parents don’t tend to see that their child has a problem, so if there is nothing wrong then don’t fix it.