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Five Year Old Boy "addicted" To Video Games -- How Do I Get Him Interested In Other Things?
Ronny-Lord, 2007-07-30 11:00:42
I watch my sister's kids during the day and I have been for pretty much three years now. The two girls are 10 and 4, and the lone boy is 5.The issue is with the boy. Each child only plays a maximum of 30 minutes a day, one turn for 15 minutes to a game they want to play, and the remaining 15 minutes devoted to an educational game, like JumpStart Learning, Hooked on Phonics or Reader Rabbit. We'll watch about an hours worth of television a day, one show in the morning and another show while I'm cooking dinner. The boy LOVES video games, just not the learning type. When it's time to turn the "just for fun" video game off, he takes an extra 5 minutes, at least, or until I take it away. When he wakes up in the morning, before he goes to the restroom or eats breakfast, he asks about playing video games, and when I say, "Not yet, we'll play games at x", he'll keep asking about it until it's time to play the video games. Continued...He doesn't want to color, he doesn't want to go outside, he doesn't want to go to the park, he doesn't want to read a book, he doesn't want to play anything else other than video games.When he actually does play with friends or his sisters, he only wants to play video games with them, or pretend they're in the video game. They (my sister and her family) went to Stone Mountain (big mountain with lots of family activities and a lazer show) this past weekend, he threw a fit over not being able to bring his gameboy.I'm just not sure of what to do to get him interested in other things. I love him, he's my boy, I potty trained him, taught him how to write and ride a bike and I've been with him. But he just doesn't seem to care about anything else and I miss just running around the yard with him, pretending. Or coloring with him, or reading a book with him. Any advice please? ):I've been thinking about cutting out the "just for fun" video game time for him, but it doesn't seem that fair since his sister's play video games just for fun, but they don't have issues with it.But then, they usually pick out the more educational games over the other.You know what, that comment that I don't do things with the kids is a low blow and I truely do not appreciate it.We go to the park. We color.We read.We practice writing and math.We blow bubbles out in the yard and play in the sprinklers.And it's not that I'm sitting on my ass the whole day just watching them play, not like these other moms I see at the park that are on their cellphones or talking to one of their other mom friends. I'm with them, going down the slides, pushing them on swings, practicing with them, making up games, making things fun, coloring with them, reading to them, having them read to me, doing all of that. He just doesn't care anymore. It's a fight to get his shoes on so we can go to the park. Don't assume things.
2007-07-30 12:52:34 Miguel-Wall wrote: Your the mother take away the video games.
2007-07-30 13:34:44 Josue-Mckinnon wrote: say look There is other4 things to do or,UN pluck The video game and put th3e thing away and tell him go out and play.
2007-07-30 13:38:32 Ariana-Zimmer wrote:
- he'll go a few days just fine, then it will start, and that's when the game is taken away, not for a few hours, but for at least a few days.
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2007-07-30 12:29:12 Toby-Cattley wrote: In my experience boys are a lot more interested in playing video games than most girls. My son would play all day if I let him and my daughter usually only plays a couple of times a week. I would just plan other activities for all of the kids and then go out and do these activities together. Since you are the babysitter, you could even go so far as to say "we don't play video games at my house". He won't like it at first, but eventually he'll get used to the idea.You might let him play as video characters. The kids in my family all used to play like they were the characters in the "Zelda" vidoe games. I can remember playing "Little House on the Prairie" as a kid and I know a lot of the older generation played "Lone Ranger" and things like that. As long as they are playing they are still using their imagination and not just sitting on their butts all day long.
2007-07-30 13:08:03 Aleshia-Hatch wrote: if he doesn't like it too bad, he will get over it. i don't know what we're not susposed to assume. there's no reason to play video games all day. i say take away the video game. you'll have to take it away from his sister too though. then tell him to do something else. you are in charge not him.
2007-07-30 12:26:18 Doretta-Thigpen wrote: maybe get out side ride bikes go to the park take a walk grab a burger or a icecream cone!
2007-07-30 12:25:52 Lyndsey-Branson wrote: Video games cater to the boy's (genetic) one-track mine and minimizes his ability to read - which requires both parts of your brain. Video games are addicting with their constant movement, colors, etc. Read "Raising Boys & Loving It". It explains a lot.
