Persuasive Speech Outline

Roxanna White (9)

TOPIC – The Positive Effect of Various Games for Children
GENERAL PURPOSE – To inform
SPECIFIC PURPOSE – To inform the audience of the positive effects of games on children.
CENTRAL IDEA – To inform the audience of the benefits games can have on children with especially avoiding social insecurities and other major benefits, as well as sharing my plan to share gaming with the younger community so that they may benefit in their own way.

I. INTRODUCTION
a. Attention Getter – Children of this day and age are surrounded by technology, but not every aspect of it is bad specifically in that of the gaming world.
b. Reveal The Topic – Games are not detrimental to our younger community.
c. Goodwill – Everyone has their own struggles

Reduces risks for mental diseases: One of the primary benefits of playing board games is reducing the risk of cognitive decline, such as that associated with dementia and Alzheimer’s. Keeping your mind engaged means you are exercising it and building it stronger. A stronger brain has lower risks of losing its power.
5. Lowers blood pressure: Along with laughing and increasing your endorphins, they can help you lower or maintain your blood pressure. This release of endorphins help muscles to relax and blood to circulate, which evidently will lower your blood pressure. High blood pressure is associated with greater risk of artery damage, heart disease and stroke.
6. Speed up you responses: Get yourself a board game like chess, checkers or monopoly, and in time you might be better at being able to find those hard-to-find car keys without having to look for then in the entire house. Scientists at the University of Toronto in Canada assessed two groups’ ability to search for and find an object; their results showed that study participants who regularly played video games were far quicker at locating the target than those who didn’t

MY PLAN/I WILL
i. Organize a children’s Magic the Gathering event at my local comic book store for the children in my family’s neighborhood free of charge. ii. Introduce the game to the kids, invite the children’s parents so I may show them the benefits of the game, and teach the children how to play the game itself inviting them to come to future events.

III. CONCLUSION
a. Contrary to common belief, games do not have to be detrimental to children’s lives and can actual pose great benefits for both children’s social, personal, and family life.
REFERENCES
1. Parkes, A., Sweeting, H., Wight, D., & Henderson, M. (2013). Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 98(5), 341-348. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2011-301508
2. Top 10 Health Benefits of Board Games. (2015, May 15). Retrieved April 18, 2016, from http://www.healthfitnessrevolution.com/ top-10-health-benefits-board-games/
3. Bleiberg, J., & West, D. M. (2014, November 03). Playing Video Games is Fun (and Can Help Students Learn). Retrieved April 18, 2016, from http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/