Video Games Will Ruin Your Hands
According to one Mike Tomich (and a few other doctors), kids under the age of eight years old shouldn’t be playing any video games at all. And children under five shouldn’t be coloring! These grown-up activities will ruin their hands!
Tomich insists that coloring and video games will lead to finger deformities later on in life, because the bones in a young child’s fingers aren’t yet calcified enough.
His book on the subject is titled Our Silent Epidemic. And yes, one of these “silent epidemics” is fucking coloring books.
This guy isn’t that crazy. With all the supposed detrimental effects of video games flying around nowadays, finger deformities is actually one of the saner arguments. However, as long as parents teach their kids not to grip the controller like they’re crushing a man’s skull, I think their fingers will be just fine.
Tomich is currently trying to get a bill passed that will grant funding to research this issue. The bill has been rejected eight times now. Tomlich claims that Microsoft met with Washington last November to discuss the issue and seems to insinuate that Washington and the video game industry are in cahoots now. One can only hope!
