Saturday, 29 October 2011

Teenagers' Obsession With Computer Games

By Owen Jones


Many parents are worried concerning the amount of time that their kids are wasting playing video games. It is simple to become engrossed in a computer game and the competition to become one of the first amongst one's peers to finish the quest is a big inducement.

The difficulty may come if people start to give up their normal healthy routines so that they can play games.

Attending 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 will never actually get to where you ought to have been. Staying up too late or not doing homework to create more time for playing games is a serious error of judgment.

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

This makes it more difficult for the parent who is trying 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, but 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 consume 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 their career governs the remainder of their day. If your youngster is putting this mucht time into playing video games, something else has to be suffering.

It is probably 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 it is the time to curb 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 a lot of aggression on TV because it may affect 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 if you compare it to listening to some Brahms or Bach or watching a Shakespearean play.

If you believe that your child has got the balance of input into its head out of kilter, then it is better to do something sooner instead of later.




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