Nowadays, all kinds of video games and videos are very attractive. Sometimes even adults delay eating because they play games and watch videos, not to mention children with weak self-control.
Children holding mobile phones, tablets and game consoles all day long will not only affect outdoor activities, but also affect rest and study, making many parents very distressed.
Ding Ma happened to see an article written by an American mother, which told her how to keep her children away from video games. Let’s have a look.
Like many parents, Erika, who has two sons and is growing up, is distressed by her child’s addiction to playing games. Although playing games is not necessarily harmful, it is always bad to spend too much time on electronic products.
1. The Temptation of Rewards
Let children take part in housework and other work, and give them some rewards, pocket money or go to amusement parks.
As long as the work is paid, my younger son will enjoy it. Let him do some things that parents don’t want to do at ordinary times, such as tidying up the books at home, washing dishes and other relatively simple activities. After the child finishes, he will pay a little salary as pocket money, which will not only let the child take on some housework, but also let the child leave the video games.
Of course, children should not be allowed to develop the thinking that housework is just for the sake of money. If children want money to buy snacks or toys, they can give these things to them, but if they use money to buy game coins or the like, forget it.
2. Take your children to miss the past.
Most children are curious about the past:
[What did I look like when I was a baby? ]
[What was Mom like when she was young? ]
[Do I look like my father when he was young now? ]
Looking at the previous photos, let the children go back to the past and talk about things they cannot experience, which can not only improve communication with the children, but also bring the children back to the real world.
STEP 3 Make something to eat
Whether baking biscuits or making cakes, children can participate together. Steamed buns and dumplings often made by Chinese families can also let children participate together.
Many children like to play with flour and look forward to the food coming out of the oven while making trouble in the kitchen.
Or make a dinner, let the children wash the dishes, set the dining table, or even let the children wait in the kitchen to taste the taste, is good.
Let children participate in daily family life, instead of cooking well every day and calling dozens of times to children addicted to electronic products.
Slowly, children will realize that the fun in life is far greater than the fun in games.
Step 4 Play Outside
Take the children outside to play with mud, fly kites and take pets out to bask in the sun.
If conditions permit, it is also a good choice to take the child on a trip. When you go to a strange place, the child’s curiosity will be magnified and you will naturally not remember to play games.
Step 5 Play with friends
If there is only one child, not allowing him to play games may spoil the child. However, if the child has small partners, let the child play with friends more, not only can he move his body, but also he can communicate with his peers more.
You can invite children from the community or kindergarten to play together. It is very good to play at home or out. Although when I was a child, a group of children playing together may cause some minor troubles, but who didn’t get into trouble when I was a child?
Childhood playing together is the best memory for children in the future, not games or videos.
6. Play with your kids
When shopping in supermarkets and food markets, you can compete with your children to see who knows more vegetables. The winner can do what he wants to do. The loser has to help cook dinner at night.
In fact, children certainly don’t know as much as their parents, so they must be sure to win this kind of competition, because if they lose, it is a legitimate reason to play games for children.
For example, the time to get up in the morning can be shortened by comparing who wears clothes faster.
If the child is faster, he can give some small rewards. If the child is slow, he can naturally agree not to play games today.
In fact, many things in life can be turned into small competitions to cultivate children’s sense of competition and to make children have more fun in real life.
Step 7 Attend parties
Taking children to parties is also a good opportunity to keep children away from electronic products.
For birthday parties and festival parties, the title is not important. What is important is that children can get together. A group of children can play and play together, which also achieves the goal of staying away from video games.
8. Give them a camera
Many families will choose to have their parents take charge of the mirror to record their children’s growth, but if they are given a camera to take pictures of what they like or make a small family movie, there may be unexpected surprises if the perspectives are different.
In this way, children can not only have something to do, but also have a sense of accomplishment to make films. It can be said that it can kill two birds with one stone.
Step 9: Laundry
Children can wash close-fitting clothes by themselves from an early age and learn to use washing machines. When the clothes are washed, they can take their children to dry them together.
However, you should be prepared to answer all kinds of strange questions from children, such as “Why does mother have so many clothes while father has so few?” [Why are Dad’s trousers so big that they can fit me in].
Folding clothes can also call on children, although not too much hope, but as long as they stay away from the computer ~
10. Exercise
Whether children play basketball, swimming or badminton, they can stick to one or two sports accompanied by their parents, which is not only good for their children’s growth and development, but also can form healthier living habits, and they will not always sit at home and play games.
Having said so much, the reason is very simple. Diverting attention is the most effective way.
Choose one or two things that the child is interested in, accompany the child to stick to it, guide the child patiently when he is addicted to games, and succeed when the child finds that there are many things more interesting than playing games.