Sometimes a child's video game addiction can be a symptom of a more serious, hiding under this, проблемы. For example, child can get involved in video games as a means of salvation from the serious difficulties in school and great tension, existing between the members of the family home.
Many children, especially on the threshold of adolescence, They prefer to spend time, engaged in video games. Their parents worried about the content of these games, lack of social contacts among children, narrowness of their interests and their complete isolation from home and family.
But where to draw the line between simple interest and this dependence?
When your child is engaged in video games, try to notice, if he falls into a state of trance. This indicates that arose addictive.
If you are trying to limit the time, conducted by a child playing video games, and he stubbornly resisted, drawn into the struggle for the right to engage in video games as much as he wants is a sign of addiction. Ребенок, drawn into video games, find a variety of ways to circumvent the rules and do what, that he was not allowed to do.
The Children, suffering from the disease of addiction to video games, need help. Если вы считаете, that your child is one of them, try to follow the advice, directed at the, to take control of a harmful habit baby.
Develop an incentive system. Use the video as a reward for performance of work at home, successful homework completion or what – the special classes in the house.
Set a time limit on the lesson video games. You can buy a special device to control the time,, which makes the video games for your child. You can install the program, allowed to use video games a certain amount of hours per week – and no more.
Enter program “interruptions to return to reality”. After one hour of video games the child should do “break to return to reality”, during which he is discussing with a family member or a friend, what is happening in the house. It diverts attention from the child's fantasy world for a few minutes of games.
Rest for the weary eyes and muscles. During “interruptions to return to reality” nice to persuade a child to take short breaks every twenty minutes to prevent eye overvoltage. Let him look away from the screen for a few seconds look at something in the distance.
Encourage your child breaks get up and walk a minute or two, to relieve muscle tension. These changes in body position will also help remind your child, that there is a world outside of the monitor.
make changes. changing environment, which I used to be engaged in video games your child, you simplify his task time limit, allocated for video games. For example, you can change the start time of the video game. Do not let him get behind the video immediately after returning from school, and not allowed to do this until, until he eats.
Make it a general measure. Invite your child's friends play video games with him, that it is not doing this alone. Every time, when it's possible, purchase games, in which you need to play together. Even with the singles with two children can play together, alternately, making comments on the success or failure of each other.
If you can not beat 'em, join them. Play video games themselves, so you will understand the meaning of each game and will know, what your child says.
Instead video games are encouraged to develop computer games. Encourage your child to switch to computer games, developing child horizons and increase his level of education. Even if he values most eye coordination and response in video games, There are computer games, providing the same opportunity, and more valuable to the child, than most video games.
Hold the present case. Instead of, to buy a video game, based on some form of sports, let us say, baseball or hockey, take him to a real match. He not only distracted from the screen, but it will give you and your child a feeling of comradely co communication.
