Computer dependence at teenagers, one of the most widespread problems. How to parents to struggle with this illness?
Instruction
1. Having found out that your child got under influence of computer dependence, do not ignore a problem. Realize all gravity of business, have patience, fight against this illness demands time and forces.
2. The direct bans, strict violent methods, threats and the ultimatum will not help. Therefore you should not tear out in a fit of temper a cord from the socket and to threaten to throw out the computer in a window. The teenager will react also aggressively, to protest openly that will lead to the constant conflicts in family.
3. For a start it is necessary to find a common language with the child, to understand what so attracts it in video games. Communicate on his hobby, ask to show favourite video games, try to play with it together, pay attention to hobby of the child. So you will manage to become closer to the child, he will cease to be under pressure and loneliness which overcomes by means of the computer.
4. Try in all ways, to approach accurately, unostentatiously the child. Encourage him to share with you experiences by emotions. The teenager has to feel care, attention and love in the real world, but not to seek to be disconnected from a negative in the life in virtual.
5. When it was succeeded to improve trusting relationship with the child, try to agree with him about restrictions of time which are carried out at the computer and longer breaks. You say that it will be better for his health and health. You should not limit, reduce sharply stay time at the computer, do it gradually, especially if the child got used to spend at the monitor not less than 4 hours a day.
6. Try to find out, perhaps, the child is weighed by problems in the real world and he tries to disappear from everything in virtual. Problems with peers, estrangement and loneliness, inferiority complexes, all this can become the reason of dependence of the child on the computer, in the virtual world he can feel the self-assured owner of the world.
7. Try to show to the teenager other possible hobbies. Suggest it to choose for yourself sports section, a circle, invite to go with you for the company to the pool, to the gym, the museum, theater. Unostentatiously acquaint the child with other classes, and he will surely want to try something new.