Video: Pyschologist: computer games hinder children from 'learning about being human' Dr Richard House, Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University's Department of Pyschology and an advisor to the Save Childhood Movement said growing numbers of children are failing to develop properly at a young age because of the pressures of modern life. He warned that computer games and social media "displace the real experiential learning that's essential for children to learn about being human." Dr House belives it is crucial that society tackles these problems. "The way in which children grow up today will be the decisive influence on the kind of society that we have in the future," he said. The group warns that British schoolchildren are among the most stressed, unhappy and "sedentary" in the developed world, due to a combination of spending too much time sat unsupervised in front of televisions, games consoles and the internet instead of playing outdoors.