Dealing With Teen Video Game Obsession

Many parents are worried about the amount of time that their kids are spending playing video games.
It is simple to become engrossed in a video game and the competition to be one of the first amongst one's peers to finish the task is a big incentive. The difficulty can come when children start to give up their standard healthy routines so that they may play games.
Going to school is like going to the office but with long term consequences.

If you lose your position, you can get another one (in theory), but if you neglect your education you can never actually get to where you should have been.
Staying up very late or not doing homework to create more time for playing games is a significant error of judgment.
Children can become, well, to be frank, most children are deceptive and by the time they get to be teenagers they are normally fairly polished 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 difficult for the parent who is trying to find out whether their teenager has a problem 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.

Many doctors reckon 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.

Read sixteen ounces. How many hours do you play video games a week? Thirty.
Read sixty.
Do not forget that anything more than 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 job governs the remainder of their day. If your child 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 become health or the acquisition of social skills, friends and contacts, all of which help someone to obtain a better job. If you think that the child is spending too much time at the gaming console and you become aware that grades or social life are falling off, then is the time to curb gaming hours or it could become worse, leading to temper tantrums, which could be mild to serious.

If you think that it is bad for children to watch too much aggression on TV because it can affect their character, then remember that most video games involve extreme 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 do something sooner rather than later.