Locked in their bedrooms, playing video games into the small hours, children as young as 10 years old are now addicted to their consoles. Tim Lewis hears how the compulsive games can be impossible to resist – and meets the experts tackling the issue
I live in a city outside of the US, it’s not particularly safe for kids to play outside as there is crazy traffic and nowhere to really go.
There are just a few small parks in the city and they are not easily accessible.
When I lived in the states, I played outside with friends in the suburbs, but stopped around high school, as there were very few kids in my neighborhood and previous friends moved away/outgrew playing as they were older than me.
parents are less involved in their kids livesit’s no longer safe for kids to play outside in many placessocietal distancing is worse then everthere’s a mental health crisis that has been ignoredthere’s a lack in healthy role models and an abundance of toxic onesall across the world there’s political turmoil caused by politicians convincing the people to hate eachother rather than those in poweraddiction has been normalized, kids watch their parents glued to their phones and they learnkids are taught that they can become anything but will need to come to grips with the reality that they simply cannotVideo game addiction is a symptom of multiple societal issues, you cannot simply solve it dealing with the symptom.
Thanks this is far better then the posts blaming parents like they’re the only vector in their child’s life.
While parents certainly have a part to play societal issues are the underlying cause.
And making their parents lives better would address most of those societal issues.
Of course but that would require threatening the capitalist class and the politicians cannot allow that for obvious reasons
But it’s so much easier to just blame the one thing, pretend to do something about it, and claim we’ve made progress.
It’s not just that it’s easier to not fix the fundamental societal issues, it’s that the politicians make money from not fixing them.
By “no longer safe to play outside” are you referring to the people operating child murdering trucks?
I live in a city outside of the US, it’s not particularly safe for kids to play outside as there is crazy traffic and nowhere to really go.
There are just a few small parks in the city and they are not easily accessible.
When I lived in the states, I played outside with friends in the suburbs, but stopped around high school, as there were very few kids in my neighborhood and previous friends moved away/outgrew playing as they were older than me.