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Violence effects of video games and TV on children Video games and TV era started in the nineties and made a huge advance in the media and entertainment .As more people started to play and watch, more children starts to be desensitized by them, which lead to serious accidents and deaths like the case of Jamie Bulger. So scientists started to do researches on video games and their effect on children. It showed that children who play aggressive video games become more aggressive and savage and socially uncreative but on the other hand it has also showed that it also improves their thinking skills which are needed for the future. Some people believe there is definite link between the growing violence on television and in movies and the increase in aggressive behavior of people in general, but especially in the young. Video games and TV that distract them from that, not that all but some games contain sex and sexism, violent and gory scenes, partial or full nudity, portrayal of criminal behavior, racism, and other provocative and objectionable material that desensitize children making them more aggressive, brutal and cruel. These effects have been shown by many children that have been experimented on. As the years past there was a growing body of opinion that the high level of violence depicted in many computer games does have a deleterious effect on children, contributing to the increase in violent behavior. In a You Gov survey 300 British parents of children aged 6 to 18 were asked whether they think that playing video games is harmful or not and if they limit their children’s play time, 28% of parents said that playing video games is harmful, 66% of theme disagreed with that. However 62% said that they limit their children’s play time while 37% do not limit their play time which shows that parents are confused about how harmful the games are. In contrast television appears to be less worrying for parents, when asked 83% said that watching television is probably not harmful but there are parents who are worried and made restrictions for their children and limited their children’s time in watching TV to around one to two hours, while one from five parents said that it should be from two to three hours. Just 1 % said that their children spend over six hours watching TV. Children of different ages react in different ways, children from age 2 to 5 are much less able to tell the difference between reality and fantasy and have fear from being separated from their parents and. Most of the bad effects of video games are blamed on the violence they contain. Children who play more violent games are more likely to have increased aggressive thoughts and feelings and behaviors. Psychologists argue that the effect of video games violence in kids is worsened by the games interactive nature and makes them socially isolated and it does not exercise their imaginative thinking which is important in developing creativity. Some may confuse reality from fantasy and they may think what is happening is real and act it on others which is very dangerous. Although there are bad effects, there are also good effects of video games such as giving the child’s brain a real work out, high level thinking and these skills are not even taught at schools. In shooting games, the character may be running and shooting at the same time. This requires the real-world player to keep track of the position of the character, where he/she is heading, their speed, where the gun is aiming, if the gunfire is hitting the enemy, and so on. All these factors need to be taken into account, and then the player must then coordinate the brain's interpretation and reaction with the movement in their hands and fingertips. This process requires a great deal of eye-hand coordination and visual-spatial ability to be successful. The player also learns to manage resources that are limited, and decide the best use of each resource, the same way as in the real life. Some of the mental skills trained by video games include: Following instructions, problem solving and logic and even hand-eye coordination, fine motor and spatial skills. Dr Albert Bandura is a psychologist at Stanford University. Bandura had made a lot of experiments on children’s behavior, and one of the most important experiment is the Bobo doll experiment were a group of children watched a female student hit, kick, hammer, and shout on it then the children were put in a room with a bobo doll and were video recorded their actions, they exactly imitated the student in the same way as they seen her. All of this suggests that watching violence on television can encourage young children to imitate violence behavior and that parents should limit their children’s playing and watching time.