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Friday, April 8, 2011

How To Deal With Teen Video Game Obsession

By Owen Jones


Numerous parents are concerned about the amount of time that their kids are spending playing video games. It is simple to get engrossed in a video game and the competition to become one of the first amongst one's peers to finish the quest is a big inducement. The difficulty can come when children begin to give up their normal healthy routines so that they may play games.

Going to school is like going to work but with long term consequences. If you lose your job, you can get another one (in theory), but if you neglect your education you can never really get to where you ought to have been. Staying up very late or not doing homework to create more time for playing games is a serious error of judgment.

Children can become, well, to be frank, most children are deceptive and by the time they become teenagers they are usually fairly good at it. They have acquired enough social skills and enough about their parents to be able to deceive them quite easily.

This makes it more problematic for the parent who is attempting to find out whether their teenager has a difficulty with gaming addiction or gaming obsession. We all like to think that our children would not lie to us, yet we all know that they do.

Numerous doctors consider it is best to double figures given by a patient: how many pints of beer do you drink a week? Ten. Understand twenty. How much chocolate do you eat a week? Eight ounces. Understand sixteen ounces. How many hours do you play video games a week? Thirty. Read sixty.

Do not forget that anything over forty is a working week. They are throwing away a full-time wage to play games and all adults know how much the pattern of the day career governs the rest of their day. If your youngster is putting this much time into playing video games, something else has to be suffering.

It is almost certainly grades at the moment, but later it could be health or the acquisition of social skills, friends and contacts, all of which help someone to obtain a better career.

If you think that the child is spending too much time at the gaming console and you notice that grades or social life are falling off, then is the time to restrict gaming hours or it could become worse, leading to temper tantrums, which could be mild to severe.

If you think that it is not good for children to watch too much violence on TV because it can have an effect on their character, then remember that most video games involve intense violence, rapid responses and shooting to kill. This is quite an amount of hyperactivity for the brain when you compare it to listening to some Brahms or Bach or watching a Chekhov play.

If you think that your child has got the balance of input into its head out of kilter, then it is better to react sooner rather than later.




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