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/^t/The last but not least argument is the amount of time spent by children in front of computer monitors. Video games are in fact very time-consuming and when one starts playing the time does not matter. Even people who are not very keen on these games claim that it is difficult to stop playing and the situation usually goes out of control. They say that it is like a kind of addiction. Hardly any parents control how much time their children spend playing games and it is sometimes a great amount of time. As a result, children neglect their school duties and fail to develop their personalities. Psychiatrists claim that a considerable percent of young people with school problems spend too much time playing video or computer games. Children of the computer age read fewer and fewer books, which must lead to the impoverishment of their personalities. Taking this into consideration one must agree that anxiety about the whole generation appears.