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Your child plays many hours of electronic games and you are concerned? See what you need to know, and also what you can do.
Common symptoms of dependence (Addiction)
* Isolation from peers (stops going out for a walk), and anxious anticipation of the hour they will play again.
* If there is a sudden break of their dependence on the PC (e.g., they find themselves in a place without a PC), then symptoms appear, such as hand tremors, insomnia, hyperactivity.
* Often they refer (in conversations with others) to the “heroes” of the games as if they were real, actual persons.
What to do
* It makes no sense to absolutely ban the PC and games.
* The “forbidden” magnetizes their curiosity, and pushes them exactly to the opposite result.
* The parent must show “mindset adaptation”. To realize that the use of electronic games is a sign of our times!
* However, one should not easily give in to the child's wishes. He must, in a serious, decisive manner, make an agreement (some kind of contract) with them. To choose “together” games with reduced violence, agreeing on the duration of the gameplay.
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Source: protothema.gr
