Parents are worried if their child becomes addicted to computer games. However, how to develop a healthy passion for other activities in him and what to do if he already “disappears” in the computer? To help parents, InternetUrok.ru has released a series of educational video tutorials.
Parents often complain that their child plays computer games all day long. Psychologists, doctors, sociologists talk about the dependence of children on gadgets, about the negative consequences for a fragile psyche. Reasons for concern cannot be ignored. However, few people ask the question: how does addiction arise?
Addiction is the flip side of passion, which is characteristic of every child. And there is only one way to fight it: to “pull” it into enthusiasm, to teach the child to get involved, so that he carries this quality through his whole life.
Project offers a series of videos “Attention to the child”, which will help parents in their upbringing. It is impossible to live without passion. All great discoveries, outstanding inventions, masterpieces of art were made by enthusiastic people. At the same time, it is important to understand that they were passionate not only and not so much about the end result, but about the process itself.
Passion will never become an addiction if it is stimulated and brought up in a child correctly.
Look at a small child who sat down to draw, and something incomprehensible appears on paper. Ask him what he draws – and often he will not be able to answer, because he himself has not yet decided. For a child who is passionate about drawing, the process itself is important. He does not set goals for himself, does not analyze what he has achieved or can achieve today. This is very important – passion, without it a person cannot become a good employee, a team member. To work without being carried away by the process means just pulling the strap.
Enthusiasm will never pass into the clinical stage, i.e. into dependence, if it is stimulated and brought up in a child correctly. Unfortunately, the modern school does not do this, and here parents should feel a special responsibility. Help your child develop this property, direct him in the right direction, and first of all, in the direction of creation. This is typical of children from birth, you just need to be with them, guide them, throw up new ideas. When a child collects his first pyramid, he creates. Let him create something more and be there.
What is the main stimulus for the development of enthusiasm? Of course, parental love, which is expressed both in benevolent supervision, and in the constant readiness to help, and in pride in one’s child. By the way, be sure to show your child that you are proud of the fruits of his efforts.
Every day, support the child’s enthusiasm, expand her horizons, do not let us concentrate on one thing – this narrows the horizon, complicates the worldview for a small person. Remember the outstanding athletes who, from early childhood, saw nothing but their sport, countless trainings and competitions. When the time comes to say goodbye to sports, a young person is forced to leave for another area, not really knowing anything and sometimes even being not fully socialized. The history of sports is replete with tragedies of people who broke down, not finding a place for themselves in the new reality.
Teach your child to get involved, and you will bring up a person who can live in harmony with the world and himself.
But what about those who missed the moment by letting the child become addicted? It’s not too late to fix everything, even without leaving the computer. Is the child sitting in the “shooters”? Sit down to play with him, watch the process, communicate. Draw his attention to the fact that this is not a senseless firing at everything that moves, but something more. Point out to him the situation, the entourage, try to explain that even the simplest game requires tactics and strategy. If the game is dedicated to some section of history, real events, tell us something interesting about this period. So you can unobtrusively interest the child, take him to strategy games, develop interest in history. The main thing is to transform passion from a state of dependence.
The problem of modern children is the difficulty of goal-setting. They are full, shod, dressed, surrounded by attention, they have everything. The lack of incentives for development creates a void that the child instinctively tries to fill with something. Teach him to get involved, and you will bring up a person who can live in harmony with the world and with himself.