Protecting My Daughter
My at-the-time ten-year-old daughter was showing addictive signs with a computer game on her phone. (She had wanted it because all her peers at school were playing it.) So I took it away, explaining why. It didn’t seem right for her to have even a little of it, if it created that strong an urge to keep going. She was upset, but that was okay.
Once in a while at a phone shop she’ll play something on the display phones and act like she is desperate to keep playing. Then I can see that that kind of game is addictive, and I don’t let her have a game like that.
She plays chess and Sudoku on her tablet, and that’s about all. She doesn’t get addicted to those.
Thanks for mentioning Minecraft [see previous article]. I’ve been concerned about letting her play it, but perhaps I’ll try what you have done.
Reprinted from the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of parents
(Present Time 198, January 2020)