In his Father's Day message, published in Parade magazine, U.S. president, Barack Obama, linked videogames to academic underachievement.
"We need to set limits and expectations," he wrote. "We need to replace that video game with a book and make sure that homework gets done... We need to tell our sons, Those songs on the radio may glorify violence, but in our house, we find glory in achievement, self-respect, and hard work."
This marks the third time Obama mentions videogames in the last 10 days. On June 11th he told an audience in Wisconsin that Chinese and Indian kids " watch a lot less TV than our kids do, play a lot fewer video games, they're in the classroom a lot longer."
During his speech to the American Medical Association in Chicago last Monday, the president also said that "[Preventive care] starts with each of us taking more responsibility for our health and the health of our children. It means... raising our children to step away from the video games and spend more time playing outside."
