Do you know that "Watching TV or playing computer games for more than two hours a day is related to greater psychological difficulties irrespective of how active children are"?
(Angie Page, Lead Author of the Bristol University Research Report - More information is available on the BBC News and Guardian Websites)

Even more worries have been raised by Robert Weis, an associate Professor of Psychology at Denison University in Ohio, who has said "................we can never say with 100 percent certainty that.... playing video games....causes kids to have delays or deficits in reading and writing performance, but ... we can be pretty confident that...game ownership and the amount of time they spend playing that causes these academic delays……………. Video games could affect a child's brain...and it could compromise his or her ability to do well in certain academic activities.”

Another expert, Alan Delamater, Director of Clinical Psychology at the Mailman Centre for Child Development at the University of Miami agrees. "There's only so much time you can give to certain activities, and the more you spend with video games, the more likely you will not progress in academic achievement…………………… parents should be limiting the exposure these kids have to video games."  

Leading United Kingdom expert, Dr Richard Graham has even set up a rehabilitation service for youngsters who have become addicted to gaming, pointing out ".............how seriously their lives can be impaired by unregulated time online, on-screen or in-game."  Dr Graham has come across teenage children spending up to 16 hours a day on gaming machines with, "potentially severe consequences"  for their education and social opportunities.

The issue was highlighted recently in an edition of the highly respected BBC Current Affairs Programme, Panorama, entitled "Addicted to Games?" See the report "Can video gaming cross from innocent fun to addiction?" on the BBC website. Are you worried about the amount of time that your child is spending on gaming rather than on school work or household chores or on more physical activities?

Have you been looking for a way to control your child's use of his or her gaming machine in a way that is both effective and allows them to join with you rather than fight against you?

Read about how one woman took back control of the games in the Mail Online

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