Nowadays video game addiction has become one of the most popular problems, especially among small children and teenagers. This addiction strongly affects someone's behavior. Addiction makes someone quite aggressive, hard to concentrate and doesn't even have time to eat or sleep because the only concern is video games. This addiction has been noticed even between adults, and that might be quite dangerous, someone could lose a job or even family just because of computer games.
One of the main solutions is parents should advise their children. Parents should control their child’s gaming and actively involved in their children’s video game usage. Parents need to take control of the situation by monitoring the current amount of time the child is playing games, reduce the time through close supervision and schedules a time for playing. Another way how to get rid of video game addiction is to try to find any alternative activities, for example, sport. Small children and teenagers should spend more time with their friends, in the best case outdoors. The more fresh air, the better for their health, and it will help them to forget about this serious addiction.
In conclusion, video games is a good way how to kill time when one is bored. However, someone should be very careful not to get addicted because between addiction and cure from boredom is a thin line. Someone should understand that there are more things in life than video games and then everything will be all right.
By : Erdie Abdi Abady
