When’s the last time you observed the computer and video games your children play?

This article had me thinking if video games cause children to act in certain ways then they should start producing a lot more productive, brain challenging. competitive, and moral video games.  I completely disagree with the author that video game violence makes children more prone to becoming violent that those two are inherently not tied together at all for teens.  Maybe for children who are under the age of 9 who shouldn't be playing games that are rated by the ESRB as for adults only.  The reason that I say this is because kids under the age of 9 are more likely to be influenced by things that they see are do.  They are not out in the real world or close to it so are not dampened down and numb to the video game violence that older gamers are.  Me and my friends could play FPS games for hours and hours and hours on in.  We have killed more people than every war that has ever happened combined in our lifetime in video games but that doesn't make us want to become Serial Killers, or make us want to go around beating people up.  When you are a true gamer you are numb to what is on the screen and are just trying to get the objectives achieved that the game presents you.  I never kill anyone in any game and for a second think about that person being "killed".  I see it as something that needed to be done and on to the next.  If this fallacy logic this Anderson said is true then in every school yard across America everyone would be a bully girls included beating everyone up.  It is another over protective and over zealous parent trying to find another media or societal issue to blame for bad parenting.  If children were that able to take in material, I have a grand idea.  How about since children are going to play video games anyway that we force them to play all the positive games out there?  Reward children for playing video games if they are as influenced and apt as the author says they are at taking in what goes on the idiot box then rewarding them for playing video games is a win-win situation.  If parents are rewarding children for playing games and the kids are playing positive games and be positively influenced then nobody is harmed.  Everything however is a per case basis I am sure there is some children who are gravely influenced by violence on the gaming systems however I would also ensure that this is a grave minority.  The majority of gamers are simply that gamers they are playing games for the sake of playing games not to go mimic what is going on the TV screen.  We have yet to see the crazed many running through Los Angeles stealing cars with a rocket launcher on his back while he picks prostitutes on the way.  Until then I feel that this issue is irrelevant and rest assured I doubt that will ever happen no matter how good of TV it would be.