On the front page of today’s Straits Times – “Young children lead online charge in Singapore”.The annual IDA survey shows that:
- 90% of children under age group 10 – 14 use the Internet to communicate, play and learn
- 64% come from those in the age group 15 – 59
- 20% are those above 60 who were the least Net-savvy
And what are the top online activities that are of interest to these children (10 – 14)?
- 60% send email (42% uses MSN Messenger to send instant messages)
- 58% play games
- 52% use internet for learning
- 33% visit chatrooms
- 27% share personal data in social sites like the Friendster
- 18% download music/movies
In this present era, the Internet is inextricably woven into the lives of today’s kids. Like one student said: “I cannot imagine life without the Internet.” While this may be a fact, parents still need to be aware of the time spent by children on the internet. This is to ensure that they are not addicted to computer gaming. Take note of the following:
- Is your child spending more and more time on gaming?
- Is he/she neglecting his studies, CCA, family and friends?
- Is his/her study or CCA performance deteriorating?
- Is he/she feeling restless, irritable or discontent when not playing computer game?
- Is he/she going to bed much later than usual or waking up 4 am in the morning just to play the game before going to school?
- Is he/she developing health problems such as eye strain, weight gain and backaches?
- Is he/she lying to the family and teachers about his playing pattern?
- Is he/she feeling guilty, anxious or upset because of his habit?
- Is he/she denying or rationalizing the negative consequences resulting from playing too much computer game?
If you answer is “YES” to several of the questions, then your child could be addicted to computer gaming! Want to know more of these ‘danger’ signs log on to http://www.parentingchampions.com/.
” Be Alert! Before Your Child become a Computer Gaming Junkie “
I was very pleased to find this web-site.I wanted to thank you for your time for this wonderful read!! I definitely enjoying every little bit of it and I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you blog post.
Great blog, Just wanted to comment that i can not connect to the rss stream, you might want install the right wordpress plugin for that to workthat.
Hi, Great article! Excellent weblog. Thank you for this specific material I had been seeking all Msn to be able to locate it!
My brother suggested I might like this web site. He was totally right. This post truly made my day. You can not imagine just how much time I had spent for this info! Thanks!
I like what you guys are up also. Such clever work and reporting! Keep up the excellent works guys I have incorporated you guys to my blogroll. I think it will improve the value of my site
Good day! This post could not be written any better! Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept chatting about this. I will forward this post to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Many thanks for sharing!
Pretty great post. I simply stumbled upon your weblog and wanted to say that I’ve truly loved surfing around your weblog posts. In any case I?ll be subscribing on your feed and I’m hoping you write again very soon!
You created some decent points there. I looked on the net for the difficulty and located most people will approve along with your blog.
Extremely recomended! I’m sure this web site is simply too fantastic to have a read. I’ve present it to my friends and so they all spoken very significantly of it.
Your blog is breathtaking. Most of the things on your page are my consent about. thank you for sharing.
very nice post, i certainly love this website, keep on it
Wow, fantastic weblog format! How long have you been running a blog for? you made running a blog look easy. The total glance of your site is excellent, let alone the content!
Have you thought about incorporating some social bookmarking buttons to these blog posts. At least for twitter.
Fantastic post however , I was wanting to know if you could write a litte more on this subject? I’d be extremely grateful in the event you could elaborate a little bit
Nice website. All posts have a process to learn. Your hard work is very good and i enjoy you and wanting for some more informative posts.
I like this web blog very much, Its a real nice post to read and find info .
Magnificent weblog! Plenty of helpful information here. I was looking for this.Thanks for sharing!