how to break teenage video game addiction

[Palider]

Games such as dota, dota2, csgo and much more caused the teenager addiction nowdays. How to prevent this things happen to our teenagers.

You can't stop them. Addiction is just a normal human trait that we all have. If we like something we tend to do it.

All you can do is mitigate by getting them involved in other things. Sports, book clubs, sniper school, etc.

i agree you cannot stop them in playing online games. because their mindset is just to play because they are too young to work. but they can substitute sports games to let online game go away.

[TheCoinGrabber]

This pretty common with the boys here in my lower-income community. They usually just go from one shop to another looking for people to compete with. It sure does make them easier to search though since you just need to check the net cafes.

Though it might cause some problems, I'd rather have them spending their time playing rather than doing drugs, getting into gang fights or coming home with a pregnant girlfriend.

[Pancho95]

I was addicted. But i stopped playing video games with 20. It was hard to get off it. Now maybe one time in 3 months play it. When you get into life you will stop. College and girlfriends you just say to yourself ok what am i doing here with 20 years and everybody else is going out and enjoy.

[Jgatsby]

it's normal if you will ask me, I mean it we all had some kind of addiction, they'll stop eventually just let them enjoy for a while, though it's a different story if this games will affect their studies. You can try sports, play with them either Basketball, Volleyball or Soccer as a substitute, but to be honest I'd rather have my children play games all day than to see him drinking and smoking, worst doing beyond it.

[aloha99]

I spend more than 4 hours per day on video games when I was teenager. I stopped doing this bad habit by trying to spend my time doing something else more important such as freelancing. When I earned my first cash from freelance activities, I realized that It was a good decision to move on from video games to something more profitable.

[EUROPEANTURK]

Video games are look like a illness for teenage and they spend their many times with it and they lost their control and they dont live real life because of video games , i think parents have to be carefull for this illness and parents have to take out children and spent their time with children .

[erichall]

Anyone who blames video games for their addictions is being ridiculous, no offense. Someone who is "addicted" to video games has an addiction problem; it has nothing to do with video games but rather, the individual.

Gaming is fucking awesome. But like anything else in life, don't overdo it.

[erichall]

I was addicted. But i stopped playing video games with 20. It was hard to get off it. Now maybe one time in 3 months play it. When you get into life you will stop. College and girlfriends you just say to yourself ok what am i doing here with 20 years and everybody else is going out and enjoy.

Girlfriends, the same women who spend their time with reality television, shopping, movies, and full-on media consumption?

Everybody else is going out? Going out and doing what, exactly? Wasting money on alcohol on drunken weekend nights? Watching movies? More media consumption?

My point being, you have a negative impression on gaming, yet you seem to think other people's vacuous lifestyles are somehow superior. Obviously not everyone wastes time with useless media consumption and drunken bar nights, but where I live, that's the general social interaction...I also believe that here in the west, it's the current lifestyle. I'd much rather play video games, spend time at the gym, trade crypto, etc. Gaming is not bad.

[crazylikeafox]

Cut-off your internet and restrict them from using some of the gadgets cause they have alot of free time that they dont know how to use.

[ladadadiweliketoparty]

Cant prevent it teenagers are going to choose what they will. But what you can do is try to educate and show them what their life will be like 5-10 years from now. If somebody had told me at 25 I would stop playing video

games I would have laughed in their face. But funnily enough I no longer want to play shooter and sports games anymore. Show the weak future with too much video consumption and that will change all their minds imo 

[Raline]

if I become a parent who has a child with game addiction especially if my daughter is female I will take her to go to a mall and invite her to play in a garden and most importantly do not show your phone to your child if want to cure his game addiction all in starting from ourselves if we just like to play gadgets that would be the biggest reason why our children also like addicted to the game because he imitate what his parents do if not old enough do not introduce the phone to your child

[xena2]

Games such as dota, dota2, csgo and much more caused the teenager addiction nowdays. How to prevent this things happen to our teenagers.

That was a hard thing to do nowadays.  But i think the most effective way is to ban those games at home.  Even phones should not be used for games.  Force them to interact and not play video games.  Give more time with them,  spend time bonding with your kids. Limit them from playing games.

[SugoiSenpai]

I Myself is an addict when it comes to video games, but I can control My addiction. My secret to a balanced life is having other hobbies other than video games. Sports for instance, I also play Basketball and Volleyball it helps Me boost My confidence as well as practice My cooperation with My teammates. I also go to the gym to maintain a healthy lifestyle and improve My physique. I only go play video games when I don't have anything else to do.

[TheGodFather]

Games such as dota, dota2, csgo and much more caused the teenager addiction nowdays. How to prevent this things happen to our teenagers.

i Think the first step would always be to let the sufferrer accet that he has an addiction problem as that would be something that needs to be done first before anything else. NEXt would be the rehabilitation on where or how to attack it to ensure a recovery

[Pandu Gleen]

if to break the video game addiction it may not be entirely possible but in one way that is to find busy or distract with the new atmosphere

[gabmen]

Take your children out. Kids would cherish the time given to them by their parents. Im sure they'd gladly put down their mouse and keyboard for a chance to go out with their parents

[Xising]

Games such as dota, dota2, csgo and much more caused the teenager addiction nowdays. How to prevent this things happen to our teenagers.

There is no way to fully monitor a teenager’s activities particularly after school. That makes both solving and preventing this type of addiction quite difficult especially if online gaming is their common interest among them. For me the best solution is to educate them about the negative effects of using the computer for long hours. Let them know the facts that there are real teenagers out there who literally became slaves of online games and how their education, health and relationships suffered from it as well.

[diegz]

Take the gadgets away from them. That solves the problem. 

Anyway, video game addiction is almost the same as other addiction. If you give in then you'll get addicted to it. The medication is also the same as what people are doing with addicted people, cut the source slowly then encourage the children to do other things such as outdoor activities or any other recreation.

When parents are not attending to their child's need, that's where addiction would start,  so

[leavolnhals]

Games such as dota, dota2, csgo and much more caused the teenager addiction nowdays. How to prevent this things happen to our teenagers.

Game addiction as well as drug addiction, it all affects our lives (time, money, family, health), it is difficult to give up. So we need to decide. The mind can be relinquished. Specific measures:
- Actively participate in volunteer activities
- Participate in sports activities instead of at home
- Please immediately remove the electronic equipment (computer, ps4, ..) if you want to abandon
- Hang out with friends, create relationships,create joy in life

[Renzyp]

Teenager that’s already adicted is really hard to manage but , if we are a family member or parents we only need, impotey Understanding and guidance ,  i think  that’s the best wAy so that we can’t  push them more to their addiction  ,,