Children Becoming Addicted To Video Game Fantasy Worlds, Teachers Warn
Psychologists have expressed concerns that playing some video games makes children more aggressive, Photograph: Tim Hawley/Getty Images Jessica Shepherd , education correspondent guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 3 April 2012 15.55 BST Article history A growing number of young children are acting out violent scenes from adult computer games in the playground, teachers have warned. Pupils as young as four and five are simulating car crashes and graphic injuries as a result of playing games unsupervised in their bedrooms, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) annual conference was told. A motion at the conference called on ministers to introduce "stringent legislation" to counter the "negative effects some computer games are having on the very young". Primary school teachers said the games were making their pupils far more aggressive and addicted to " fantasy worlds that separate them from reality". Doctors found children who continually p...