Video game is a monster should be tamed

Video game play is positively correlated with children’s well-being. It helps enriching children’s actual life. But how?

Because today’s children are tomorrow’s leaders so video games encourage children to plan, search and try different approaches to advance. These skills qualify children for problem solving and taking the better decisions. That’s great.

Does that mean the video games are 100% good for children?

No. the problem here when the child is addicted to play video game long time so video game is transformed into a monster which controls child’s mind exposing him to repetitive stress injuries and other health risks, emotional suppression and reduction in motivation.

So how could we tame this monster for the best interests of children?

First of all, child should be kept away from playing video games long time especially the violent ones that increase his aggressive thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

Although children of today are more advanced than previous generations, they can’t use video games correctly for their own sake without the direction of their parents. Therefore the parents are the only ones who could control this monster especially after it has grown up due to pandemic lock down boredom that deepened the passion of children for playing video games long time while staying safely at home.

Parents should reduce screen time to prevent their children from playing video games long time as well as encourage them to play in groups with their peers or their families to prevent them from being disconnected socially.

But there is an important thing to tell you here, parents should teach their children ethical values emanating from the goal of playing video games with their peers. They should not enjoy watching their peers’ fall. In contrary they enjoy only their gain while sadden for their peers’ loss. This behavior makes kids keep healthy friendships for long time; they enjoy passing their time playing video games with their peers while accepting the gain or loss.

When kids play video games side by side with their parents, they benefit their parents’ existence a lot. They are encouraged to share their personal problems and small secrets with their parents in a joyful gaming environment.

Sometimes; Kids can’t separate what they do via video games from reality. For example they think when they speed up with their fast car on video games they could do the same in the real streets when they grow up. They ignore that the real streets have their speeding rules. Here parents ‘role appears, they would teach their children that the real life has its own instructions that they must follow as they follow the instructions of video games.

Is there a need to renew the passion for old games alongside video games?

Yes, in past decades, old generations were used to gather around a table playing dominoes, card, chess, building cube blocks.

All these games teach old generations how to take the better decisions and maximize their positions during the game and consequently in their real life. Therefore we need to renew the passion for these old games alongside video games to benefit from the variety that allows children to experience a broad range of emotions and gain many skills.

Is it true that video games create a kind of laziness to do sports?

Not all the time, only when kids play long time video games. There are kids lazy to do exercise ignoring that sports are beneficial for both their mental and physical well being. Sometimes, video games encourage lazy children to do exercises through learning new moves from sports video games.

Final words

Video game is a double edged sword, it has its pros and cons. Parents are the only ones who could make their children benefit from playing video games without being exposed to its dangers through following the advises given here.

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