http://www.digitalbattle.com/2009/03/31/michigan-grandfather-says-videogames-cause-deformities/ Game News For the Masses Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:45:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.digitalbattle.com/2009/03/31/michigan-grandfather-says-videogames-cause-deformities/comment-page-1/#comment-60063 Steve Anderson Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:49:31 +0000 http://www.digitalbattle.com/?p=20488#comment-60063 There are a lot of things that are less than ideal for young children--they say you shouldn't even let them watch TV before they're like four--but sometimes you do them anyway. And in fact, trying too hard to keep harmful things away from children does more harm than good--being too clean, for example, doesn't allow a child's immune system to develop properly because it never gets exposed to common pathogens that we take out every day. There are a lot of things that are less than ideal for young children–they say you shouldn’t even let them watch TV before they’re like four–but sometimes you do them anyway. And in fact, trying too hard to keep harmful things away from children does more harm than good–being too clean, for example, doesn’t allow a child’s immune system to develop properly because it never gets exposed to common pathogens that we take out every day.

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