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Online games making youths violent

Parents should spend more time with their children


Bangladeshpost
Published : 18 Jun 2021 08:12 PM | Updated : 19 Jun 2021 12:37 AM

Playing online video games on PC, mobile phones and other gaming consoles is something maximum children grow up with. Nowadays, children play aggressive online video games very often and consequently develop violent psychological nature.

Experts opine that games like ‘PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)’, and ‘Garena Free Fire’ make the participating players lgradually addicted. Exposure to such games eventually develops violent behaviour which often may reflect into real life behaviour, like supremacy and tendency to become powerful.

According to a report published in this daily on Friday, at least five murder incidents of youths took place in Savar recently all believed to be linked to similar games incidents where reckless behavior were reported. 


Parents should spend more time with their children 

rather than handing over a phone or a gaming 

gadget to them just to keep them busy


Lack of proper moral education, mutual respect, and family supervision are mainly responsible for such unsocial behavior. It is time to take this matter seriously. Government should consider creating more playgrounds for children in every community where they can play and concentrate more on physical activities rather than confining themselves in mobile, laptop based online games.

Not only government, parent should also take more responsibility and do their parenting right. They should spend more time with their children rather than handing over a phone or a gaming gadget to them just to keep them busy.

Teens and children find it difficult to differentiate between the real world and the virtual world. So an all inclusive approach from family, educational institution and community is needed to watch them properly and make the children realise that they should be rather focussing on their studies and other creative activities than engaging themselves in this deadly online gaming culture.