On January 17, Tencent Games announced that the 2022 winter vacation and Spring Festival holiday for minors can play for up to 14 hours. Tencent said that in conjunction with the Notice on Further Strict Management and Effectively Preventing Minors from Addicting to Online Games and the actual holiday arrangements, minors can log in to the game between 20:00 and 21:00 every day on the specified date, and minors cannot enter the game experience except for the limited play time.
During the winter vacation, minors can only play online games for 14 hours, and when the news came out, netizens were divided, and many parents expressed strong support for this initiative, believing that it was beneficial to the physical and mental health of minor children. But some people do not agree, thinking that the winter vacation is originally a time to relax, so squeezing the children's time to play games is too much, and limiting the game time is only a superficial effort, to guide minors must start from the root.
Blind suppression will bring about the "resistance" of the child. Minors are in a sensitive period of psychological development, excessive restraint and discipline can easily cause their rebellious psychology, and the more they do not let play, the more they want to play. There are still many "cracking" methods under the strict regulations, whether it is buying a game account or "borrowing" other people's identity verification, you can easily avoid the restrictions on play, so that the so-called "limited play for 14 hours" has become a blank piece of paper. It can be seen that pure "limited play" is not reliable, and excessive control will only be extremely counterproductive.
Instead of forcibly depriving your child of time to play games, accompany your child to more meaningful activities. Underage children are addicted to online games, and on the surface the problem is that children lack self-control, but the root cause is inseparable from their parents' families. The lack of companionship and the "bad example" of parents themselves are the main culprits that cause minors to become addicted to online games.
Therefore, it is not wise to treat the symptoms rather than the root causes, and to cure the problem, we must start from the source. "Double reduction" environment, parents have greater responsibility for the growth of children, children's homework burden is relatively reduced, at this time to prevent their game addiction, to promote their healthy growth also need parents to provide a more suitable growth environment, starting from themselves, reduce the mobile phone network on their own dominance effect, set the right example, and guide children to participate in positive and beneficial activities. With the company and demonstration of parents, children can get a positive impact and become more autonomous.
The physical and mental development of minors is regular, they have a strong plasticity, to change their addiction to online games can not only resort to coercive constraints, change their understanding of games, cultivate positive and extensive interests, guide them to establish a healthy outlook on life, values is the fundamental way.
Text/Gao Jiahan (Shaanxi Normal University)
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