Video Games Will Ruin Your Hands
by Dylan Duarte on March 30, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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!
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on March 31, 2009 12:53 pm
Heh I like how the news focused only on the video game portion of his theory. If they said he thinks the same for coloring books the world would call him a quack. (well some of the world…) This just in falling from the Monkey Bars during recess could have you break your tail bone if you fall just right! Better take those down and pad the ground as well just in case.
Everything in moderation is key but I think waiting till your 8 to allow people to play games is a-okay. 1-7 you should be using the crazy little head of yours and running around like you are hopped up on sugar anyways lol
on March 31, 2009 5:22 pm
Kids under 8 probably don’t need video games, but I don’t see any reason to deny them. This finger deformity thing is kinda stupid.
I know I was gaming before I was 8, and my fingers are dead straight… show of hands, who else would expect their fingers to be facing backwards if this were true? (and are they?)
on April 1, 2009 3:51 am
Well, all I did until the age of 5 with my hands was color. All I did with my hands from ages 5 to 12 was play video games, and my hands are just fine. What I did with my hands from age 13-now…well thats none of your business.
on May 17, 2009 3:35 am
Nostradavis:
If you rserious about you post, please send me some pictures of your hands as shown on my site. Send to miketomich@yahoo.com
Thanks a bunch.. Mickey
on May 17, 2009 3:40 am
I do not know why errors appear like that. I will repeat the message and hope it works:
If you are serious about your post, please send me some pictures of your hands in positions shown on my site. Send to miketomich@yahoo.com
Yours truly….. Mike