GAMING AFFECTS THE LIFE OF

TEENAGERS
 GENERAL

Games or video games are one of the favorite pastimes of many people, quite a lot of
people spend their free time playing games. Men and women, ranging from children,
adolescents, to adults, often feel entertained while playing games. Games can be found on
computers, laptops or cellphones. Not a few children and adolescents are addicted to
playing games, playing games continuously makes them spend more time playing games.
So far there have been claims that playing games can have very serious negative effects.
But behind the negative effects of playing games there are also positive impacts, such as
helping to reduce stress, comforting yourself, making new friends, making decisions faster,
and being able to help improve foreign language skills. In addition, this positive impact
greatly affects children and adolescents, such as training dexterity strategies, speed of
reaction, sharpening children's creativity, and making children follow technological
developments today, namely devices and the internet. However, children or adolescents
who are addicted to playing games can also have negative effects on physical and
psychological conditions, namely, making them less mobile so that the motor skills of the
child or adolescent will decrease, eventually their body growth is not optimal, causing
obesity in children and adolescents, in addition to That is, a child or teenager who stares at
a screen device, computer, or laptop for too long can make eyes watery or sore, then
experience a minus, thus requiring them to wear glasses, which is worse will cause serious
neurological disease, they are more difficult to socialize friends because they play gadgets
too often in the house, making it awkward for them to talk to each other. As well as making
children and teenagers forget about the time to study.
 OPINION

So that in the end children and adolescents will find it difficult to get their desire for a
successful career, because they have spent their time staring at the cellphone screen to
play games. They also find it difficult to get into university because of their lack of
insight into the learning material they have passed because they are fun to play games.
Therefore, it is better if the role of parents towards children and adolescents puts
limits on playing cellphones, so that they can learn to socialize with their friends and
do positive things that can support them into a bright future.
 EXAMPLE

For example: at this very moment, many children and adolescents often forget
time because they are cool playing games, forget to eat, forget to sleep, forget
to study, and finally they often get sick so that their potential decreases in
learning.