Solutions of a Problem

It is unquestionable that excessive exposure to the video games does have bad consequences for children, but fortunately there are ways to avoid the danger and improve the situation. I've discovered a helpful report written by Dr Tanya Byron: Safer Children in a Digital World which is about making video games less hazardous for children. The author not only discusses the current game classification/rating systems in Europe, but also comes up with the ways of improving these ratings. The author gives the exact guideline of improving the game classification system and tips on raising the parent awareness on this issue. The article also touches the parental control mechanisms, which are effective tools in monitoring child's activity, though not being so well-known about yet. Above all the author stresses the importance of a one single game classification system that would cause less confusion and be powerful enough to ban some games from release.

I think that the guidelines introduced in this report are helpful and realistic and should be considered by the governmental institutions and the game industries as well.

Aricle available at http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/byronreview/pdfs/Final%20Report%20Bookmarked.pdf