How to Rescue your Child from Mobile Phone Gaming Addiction

Have you ever though of making out how much time your child spends in playing mobile phone games?

Did you find the question unimportant or rather weird?

Well, it is none of them – neither unimportant nor weird. In fact, it is absolutely important and quite a usual question to ask.

You really need to check exactly how much time your child spends on all those screen swapping, number pad tapping, and touch screen hitting games bringing real flush of excitement and mysterious smiles on the player’s face.The latest lifestyle that most kids follow often include spending an entire day stuck to their smart phones and gadgets playing an array of mobile phone games that include both downloadable games that the user can play all alone and those that are played online with other players.

Gaming has become such an inseparable part of kids’ lives that they just can’t think doing without them. Speaking matter-of-factly, their lives start from adventuring with the Lords of Waterdeep, stumbling upon Fast & Furious escapades, perfectly dangling between Grand Theft Auto and Infinity Blade series!!! But this is not at all a reason to pass silly smiles or funny giggles, the way you’re doing right there — out of the screen, sitting happily. In fact, you shouldn’t sit happily either.

You have a real job to do, go and make out what games your child plays and how long is his screen time for gaming; you need to make out if your child is playing inappropriate games or practicing wrong posture and bad eye-to-screen distance while playing the games.

If you start counting the damages that mobile phone gaming causes, you’ll soon find yourself writing a Ph.D. thesis on the topic! To cut short, let’s check out only the most damaging outcomes of unrestricted game playing.

Simply have a look at the list below and decide what you’re going to do in your child’s case.

Neglecting studies, outdoor games, important activities

Now if your child doesn’t aspire to become a full-time video game tester on growing up and if you don’t own one of the Forbes 500 companies in the gaming industry, neglecting studies will not lead your child anywhere on the career fronts.

Excessive gaming soon turns into a deadly addiction and kids start neglecting all the other important things just for the sake of playing their favorite games. This not only results into bad grades in the exams but also damages the interest and knack for outdoor games and even creates hurdles in the completion of other important activities.

Bad eating habits and poor personal hygiene

Just the way a child afflicted with exam phobia develops nervousness and stops eating properly, an ardent gamer too develops bad eating habits and poor personal hygiene because playing game and scoring high on it appear more important to him than eating nutritious food and having a proper bath.

Lack of proper sleep leading to sleep disorder

In the madness of getting better scores and passing the different levels of a game, kids often wake up till late and continue playing games on their cell phones. The major drawback of mobile phone games is this that they are completely portable in nature. Unlike the gaming consoles, which can be easily located out, mobile phone gaming cannot be located out, if the child switches off the lights and slips inside the blanket with mobile phone in hand!

Improper human interaction and lack of communication development

With the mobile phone in hand and brain totally indulged in some action packed game, kids hardly speak to anybody at all. This minimalizes their daily human interactions leading to under-developed communication skills and ability to interact with human beings.

Mounting child cell phone usage bills

As most games come for a price and every time your child successfully completes a level of the game, there is a need to download the next level, which involves double spending – first in buying the level; second as download charges.

Again, if your child plays online interactive games, it will use up the available Internet data, which will surmount the cell phone usage bills creating deeper holes in your pockets!

Exposure to excessive violence and sexuality

Gaming is a well establish industry that has both child and adult customers. To cater to all its customers, gaming companies produce games for the gamers from various different age groups. So, there is a game for a toddler, for a tween, for a teen and also for an adult and even for a senior citizen. Kids are naïve enough to buy age inappropriate games and thus, they get exposed to excessive violence and sexuality which is completely unfit for the minors.

Danger of online predators and cyber bullies

Online gaming sites are open to all. Some sites do mention lower age limit but they fail to mention an upper age limit, which turns these sites into great hosts for online sexual predators and other criminals who are always waiting to prey upon the innocent kids playing their favorite online multi-player games.

Even when your child is on a safe site, which is specifically meant for the kids, there is a hint of danger as cyber bullies cannot be stopped from using these sites. Any kid can be a victim of cyber bullying on the gaming sites.

Well, now since, you have read all the evil consequences of too much of mobile phone gaming, you must be looking for some way to stop these evil things from happening. Of course, you can make your child’s gaming safer and even take a successful step toward setting your child free from the clutches of gaming addiction – don’t forget: every addiction, big or small, important or unimportant, foolish or meaningful has DEADLY CONSEQUENCES!!

Set your child’s device to cell phone monitoring software and make it safe. By proper monitoring, you’ll not only get to make out what games your child is playing; how long your child is into his gaming escapades; who he interacts with while playing on the gaming sites; what games he is downloading; but also get to know about other cell phone activities like call logs, texting habits, mails, chatting, and various online activities.

Rescue your child from getting addicted to mobile phone game playing and give him a better and safer digital life with proper monitoring!