Nowadays, children watch a lot of TV and play video games. However, some think that these activities are not beneficial for a child’s mental health. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

In the modern world young people watch a lot of content on TV or playing games online, spending a lot of times without physical activities, some individuals assume that it might be dangerous for the children's mental health, while others think that it is not a big issue. In the following essay I will consider both sides, but I personally agree with the second group. Wasting a lot of time playing video games or watching cartoons or movies is very popular activity in nowadays, since the world had changed and now this kind of activities can have more pros rather than going outside and play sports. The main argument is that playing video games helps children improve their intellectual skills, as well as watching TV, because young generation can gain knowledge from different educational programs. For example, my little brother has spend his childhood playing video games, but he improved his computer skills and now he is studying at game development faculty. As a result, his experience that he gained from childhood helped him to become a talented student. Young generation tend to be more introverts, since they used to stay at home and do activities there, they might have mental problems because they have lack of soft skills. All the individuals in the world have to now how to act in the society, because being a part of it is a human need. My personal example will be a good illustration of this. My cousin has a mental problems now even when he is an adult, when he was only a 7 years old, he started to feel no need to communicate with his friends, because it was comfortable to just stay at home at maybe talk to online friends. Lack of communication caused problems when he was an adolescent, since he was not aware of accurate communication skills. From my point of view it is better to reduce the time spending with technologies that children spend, since for me there are more disadvantages rather than advantages in this situation. To conclude I strongly believe that parents should control the time that their daughter or son spent a day. Doing some physical activities, talking with friends or reading a book is much better than wasting time looking at screens.