Report on meeting:

Problem: Video games effect on teenagers and kids

Date: Sunday 14^th October, 2012

Venue: W104

Time: 11:20 to 11:45

Chairman: Abdullah Ali

Secretary: Hasan Mubarak

Participant: Hamdan Mohamed, Abdullkareem

Agenda:

Behavior: disorder symptoms

Bad effect on study performance

Social problems

The effect of playing violent games on children

Abdullah (chairman) opened the meeting to find with his group some solutions that will benefit the teenagers and kids.

1) Behavior: disorder symptoms

Hasan mentioned that the parents should take the teenagers and kids to see a psychiatrist to talk with their children and show them the bad effect that will be exposed to them in the future.

2) Bad effect on study performance

Hamdan said that the parents should keep in touch with the teachers to know how their kids are doing with study and if they have bad marks they take the games from them and encourage them to study hard and if they get good marks they return the games but put for them a long time to study instead of playing video games.

3) Social problems

Abdullkareem said that the parents should do a trip at the weekends for their children and take them to the park or to visit their grandmother, grandfather or arrange a trip with the whole family and go to the beach; that will keep the children in touch with the family instead of being alone and playing video games.

4) The effect of playing violent games on teenagers

Abdullah admonished the parents and said they should look after the teenagers when they play the violent games and show them the bad effects of playing these games and advise them that this is just a game and don't practise it on others.

Recommendations:

1) Seeing a psychiatrist is a good idea but our society thinks that anyone who goes and sees a psychiatrist is crazy and because of this it’s difficult for the children to accept this idea.

2) Keeping the parents in touch with the teachers will help the parents very much with their children to know the academic achievement and will encourage the children to study more to get what they need.

3) Out on a trip will benefit the children and parents and the communication between them thus will reduce the time of children sitting alone and spending their time on playing video games.

4) Violent games are harmful and parents should not allow their children to play them .