During the winter vacation, the most headache for parents is that their children are addicted to online games.
Recently, Tencent Games released the "Winter Vacation Limited Play Calendar", announcing the limited play time for minors during the 2022 winter vacation and Spring Festival holiday.
The details are as follows:
Combined with the "Notice on Further Strict Management and Effectively Preventing Minors from Indulging in Online Games" and the actual holiday arrangements, minors may:
Log in to the game from 20:00 to 21:00 from January 21 to 23 (Fri, Sat, Sun), January 28 (Fri), January 31 to February 6 (Chinese New Year holiday), and February 11 to 13 (Fri, Sat, Sun).
Minors will not be able to enter the experience for the rest of the time, except for the maximum play time. Special reminder, of which January 29-30 (Saturday, Sunday) is a ban date.
At the same time, Tencent Games' "face recognition" has been strengthened, and all accounts suspected of being operated by minors will trigger face recognition when logging into the game, recharging abnormally, and multi-device login.
In addition, Tencent Growth Guardian Public Account launched the "Recent Login Game Account" query portal, and parents can set their accounts to "minor mode".
For this "limited play regulation" of Tencent Games, as a parent, do you support it?
"Game" scramble
Whenever the holidays come, the battle between parents and "games" begins.
In order to pull children out of the "game addiction", parents can be described as racking their brains:
It has to be said that this method may be effective, but it is inevitable that some "kill a thousand enemies and damage eight hundred."
If we want to help children completely quit "online game addiction", we must know that the game itself has its own addiction.
Timely feedback
In the game, every step of the child's operation will get an immediate "response".
This response may be dazzling animation effects, scene sounds, stars symbolizing victory, flowers, various treasures symbolizing harvest, equipment...
Each one seems to be saying to the child, "You're doing it right," "Come on."
This will give the child a feeling of "being focused and accompanied", which is simply wonderful.
Progression and reward mechanisms
The game will design layers of levels, and the difficulty will be evenly and slowly increased.
Then, according to the "record", give the players (children) different identity positioning, such as bronze, silver, gold, kings in a game...
This is constantly giving children a "sense of accomplishment"!
"Sunk cost"
"Sunk cost" translates into the vernacular: irreparable payment. For example, time and energy.
The operation skills in many games are very simple, and after mastering, playing again is nothing more than "boring copying".
Children are not necessarily enjoying the game itself, it may just be a concern: this number has been played to a high level by me, and now give up, is the previous hard work not in vain?
Sense of gaming experience
Many children like to play online games, and they like the tense and exciting feeling brought about by the game.
The wonderful virtual world built by the network also provides a carrier for the emotions that children have nowhere to release during adolescence.
Relax in need
For older kids, online games are more like a decompressing "transition space." A space to alleviate academic anxiety and soothe inner conflict.
When the desired result cannot be obtained in reality, or there are many troubles in reality that cannot be escaped and cannot be solved, the child will want to hide back in the online game, after all, in the online game, almost all the "experiences" that are difficult to get in reality can be satisfied: being valued, recognized, rewritten, repeated, group combat, the same goal, intimate relationship, encouraging the rule to be broken, advocating attack to be released, no judgment, no blame.
Give "online addiction" the right medicine
Only by knowing oneself and knowing the other can we win every battle.
We understand the reasons why children love online games, so that it is possible to "prescribe the right medicine".
Parents lead by example
No matter when or what happens, the power of example for parents is always the most important.
Similarly, if you want your child to stay away from "online games", you can only "quit addiction" first. Parenting first raises themselves, when parents live a "meaningful life", children are more likely to get rid of the temptation of "online games" under the influence of their ears.
Giving children "self-worth"
Parents should sincerely appreciate their children and affirm every advantage and every bit of progress of their children.
The advantages of children are not only "test scores", "school performance" this set of evaluation system, parents should be good at discovering the growth and progress of children, so as not to push children to the "game", to the game to find a sense of achievement.
High quality companionship
"Online games" are very attractive to children, but in fact, they are far greater than the company of parents.
A Kou father in Hebei is busy with work on weekdays, leaving early and returning late every day, sometimes even spinning, and can't go home for a few days.
As the years passed, Kou's father found that he and his children had less and less communication, that father and son were becoming more and more strange, and that what worried him most was that his son was obsessed with mobile phones and televisions.
Worried about his son's vision, Kou's father decided to "grab" the child with his mobile phone and TV!
The first step starts with "playing with you":
Kou's father bought a small excavator van for his son, but he did not expect that after buying it back, both father and son were addicted to playing.
Planes, artillery, tanks... After all the toys were ready, Papa Kou began to upgrade the game:
Sand tables were built, rockeries were piled up, meandering rivers and ravines were dug up, and my son was asked to use small branches as railings. Until a miniature battlefield is set up.
Ready, father and son officially "go to war"!
The scene of the online game is completely illuminated into reality, which not only satisfies his son's preference for "thrilling" and "exciting", but also exercises the child's hands-on ability.
Before it was over, Papa Kou unearthed a new "knowledge" from this game - animation.
In order to record the "results of the battle", Kou's father had a clever move, set up his mobile phone, and began to shoot the "war film" with his son.
During the entire filming process, the son completely "quit" the mobile phone, and both father and son also learned a lot of new knowledge.
Scripting, filming, dubbing, guest actors...
More than 200 episodes of "toy war films", every time they are made, father and son are fully engaged and happy.
Guide your child in finding a playmate
Invite your child's friends to participate in "offline games" together, such as basketball, table tennis, roller skating, jump rope, playing marbles, etc.
Return to the era of games without online, let children get the experience of "competition" in reality. Or take the children on a short trip to get close to nature and feel the beauty of the real world.
Don't underestimate, don't "demonize"
I believe that many parents have seen this news:
So they became anxious, as long as the child played online games, they worried that it was "game addiction".
But in fact, there is no need to panic like this.
If children like to play games, instead of forcibly eliminating them, it is better to cultivate children's self-planning and self-management, so that children can play in moderation.
During the holidays, parents can agree in advance with their children on the daily learning time and content, exercise time and game time.
Finally, the rare holiday time is still more encouraging for parents to lead by example, give the baby high-quality focused companionship, interact and play with the child, and let the child gain a sense of achievement in reality.
Source: Liaoshen Education