Family Tips

I cannot divert my 12-year son from a computer. First he only wrote letters to friends, and now plays games from dawn up to decline. Admonitions, requests, threats do not help. I even had tried to take away “the toy”, however I had to return it after his hysterics. My son sleeps less and less, but his studies become worse and worse. What’s happened to my son? What can I do to distract him from a computer?

SUCH questions are raised by relatives of 600 thousand people. There are so many people dependent on computer games in Russia. They spend in front of the monitor from 20 to 50 hours a week. These people, in opinion of the experts, are lost for the society, do not create families and ruin their health. It has also appeared the research where symptoms of the illness are described: the bad mood, the reduced activity, deterioration of state of health down to the depression, the increased level of anxiety. The dependence on games is considered, to be shown much faster, than smoking, drugs, alcohol, an average term of its formation is half-year — year. The actuality of the problem is proved by opening the clinic (first in Europe) for people dependent on virtual games in Amsterdam this year.