Thai parents told: Find alternative activities for kids suffering gaming addiction

[webfact]

Thai parents told: Find alternative activities for kids suffering gaming addiction

 

Picture: INN

 

The head of the Innovation and Inventor Association of Thailand has told parents of children addicted to gaming to find alternative activities for their youngsters. 

 

Panawatnan Kramat's comments come after the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) added the condition of "Gaming Disorder" to its list of diseases in a latest revision. 

 

Sufferers of the condition lack control over their gaming habits to the point that they prioritize gaming over all else and continue gaming despite negative consequences. 

 

Gamers have been advised to take at least ten minute breaks per hour or risk succumbing to the condition.

 

Panawatnan thinks that is all well and good but parents should really try and introduce other activities to their children to stop them playing endlessly on computers and smart phones. 

 

INN did not specify what those activities should be. 

 

Source: INN

 

 

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[johng]

"INN did not specify what those activities should be."

Maybe some good wholesome "kite flying" at least once a day ?

[PatOngo]

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

INN did not specify what those activities should be. 

Maybe watch a good Thai soap opera....Zing, kapoww, ding, ding ding!

[overherebc]

12 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Maybe watch a good Thai soap opera....Zing, kapoww, ding, ding ding!

Wheeeeeee

[overherebc]

Here is your starter for 10.

[overherebc]

Or buy one of these and tell them it's their new X box.

[gk10002000]

the problem is finding other things to do.  So many families live in crowded apartments.  Kids don't walk to school any distance anymore.  There are less fields and playgrounds to go to.  Have you ever seen an overcrowded local library?  Not likely.  Tv and tv and more tv, with a little internet thrown in.  Gosh growing up we would play card games, board games, hang at other kid's houses.  Not doing drugs or anything, just hanging out, radio on, etc.  But if the kids don't have that mentality or encouragement for learning or reading or other intellectual things, well, the old saying was "The devil finds use for idle hands".  So few rural activities or chores to do in general these days.  Sheet in the 60s we had to at least actually dial the phone (rotary dial)!

[CGW]

3 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

the problem is finding other things to do.  So many families live in crowded apartments.  Kids don't walk to school any distance anymore.  There are less fields and playgrounds to go to.  Have you ever seen an overcrowded local library?  Not likely.  Tv and tv and more tv, with a little internet thrown in.  Gosh growing up we would play card games, board games, hang at other kid's houses.  Not doing drugs or anything, just hanging out, radio on, etc.  But if the kids don't have that mentality or encouragement for learning or reading or other intellectual things, well, the old saying was "The devil finds use for idle hands".  So few rural activities or chores to do in general these days.  Sheet in the 60s we had to at least actually dial the phone (rotary dial)!

Plenty of country side where I live, but who would send their kids out in 40c heat to "play" better they stay home and slowly bake in the house ????

[connda]

My generation put their kids in front of TVs to shut them up.
The millennials in turn hand their kids Smartphones or video game controllers to shut them up.  
We won't have to worry about another generation, as our kid's kids probably are too brain damage to reproduce.

[marcusarelus]

Teach them to start posting on Thai Visa where they will meet many English speaking children. 

[connda]

8 hours ago, CGW said:

Plenty of country side where I live, but who would send their kids out in 40c heat to "play" better they stay home and slowly bake in the house ????

Yeah, out in our village, the disenfranchise youth of today take part in constructive activities, like stealing, to support the yaba habits.  
The most successfully raised kids I've seen are those who have been taken under the wing of a mentor and taught various trades.  The one's I've watched grow up over the years are now making good livings and basically don't have time to waste doing stupid stuff.

 

 

[csmith]

These suggestions might help ....

http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/Psychol/Addict/

 

 

[csmith]

Some more suggestions on how to help the kids (and adults)

 

http://shambles.net/pages/school/HealthIT/

 

 

 

[DrTuner]

Yeah like doing yaba or trying to get the girl next door pregnant. 

 

It's a bloody wasteland for hobbies, especially if you're somewhere in the sticks.

[CGW]

1 hour ago, DrTuner said:

It's a bloody wasteland for hobbies, especially if you're somewhere in the sticks.

Outside now kids go play tennis or football, be great for them on a hot day when its close to 50c in the sun. Would help them breed character, while recovering from heatstroke 

[mok199]

Please Thailand ,try and keep up!

[Nsp64]

The only flaw in this proposal.is the fact it would take parenting skills and a bit of imagination.

[elliss]

4 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

Teach them to start posting on Thai Visa where they will meet many English speaking children. 

 

 Senile children , my smartphone and me . 555

 

 

[DrTuner]

4 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

Teach them to start posting on Thai Visa where they will meet many English speaking children. 

Not a bad idea, we'll beat the snowflakiness out of that generation in 0.000001s flat. Will have a skin like an elephant after a couple of months here.

[Isaanbiker]

12 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

the problem is finding other things to do.  So many families live in crowded apartments.  Kids don't walk to school any distance anymore.  There are less fields and playgrounds to go to.  Have you ever seen an overcrowded local library?  Not likely.  Tv and tv and more tv, with a little internet thrown in.  Gosh growing up we would play card games, board games, hang at other kid's houses.  Not doing drugs or anything, just hanging out, radio on, etc.  But if the kids don't have that mentality or encouragement for learning or reading or other intellectual things, well, the old saying was "The devil finds use for idle hands".  So few rural activities or chores to do in general these days.  Sheet in the 60s we had to at least actually dial the phone (rotary dial)!

It's quite difficult to tell the students that they should slow down on their phones when many teachers are updating their Facebook page in class, during a lesson where they copy something of the board. 

 

    Shouldn't "educators" play a big role in it? Not many kids read books, other than some strange comic books, more for adults. 

[gk10002000]

On 5/1/2019 at 9:23 PM, CGW said:

Plenty of country side where I live, but who would send their kids out in 40c heat to "play" better they stay home and slowly bake in the house ????

No argument there.  I grew up in a northeast USA with weather and seasons.  In winter still played out in the cold with jackets.  Summer was hot with some short term heat waves.  But we also had no AC in my house.  Yes I be old and summers were hot and only a window fan in my room.  Thailand heat and humidity is much worse.  

[gunderhill]

Stupid idea,  the parents are  far too  lazy.

[stanleycoin]

On 5/2/2019 at 11:08 AM, overherebc said:

Here is your starter for 10.

Or just , save yourself a fortune and loads of headaches for 20 plus years. 

 

 

[overherebc]

48 minutes ago, stanleycoin said:

Or just , save yourself a fortune and loads of headaches for 20 plus years. 

 

 

Even better.

[Sir Dude]

The kids here (and elsewhere) these days are idle, unmotivated and lacking vital skills like the communication/organizational ones for the future whether at work or in their social lives and a lot of them seem quite isolated with the path of least resistance always winning out (most teachers would probably agree). Going to be a nightmare for businesses in like as little as 10 years as finding anyone decent will be really hard. As for this person in the article casually telling parents, that have a laissez-faire attitude to bringing up children, to find other things for them to do might have forgotten the parents are mostly too busy with financial acquisition in an ever harder to survive society where money has overtaken all else in importance. And that's not before we could get started about how resistant to participation and entitled teens are these days plus completely unable to use their imagination to read books or have fun.

[ZeVonderBearz]

I don't see any activities offered by the local government in CM over the school break to keep kids from gaming. Actually with the traffic, rabid dogs, lack of playing fields, teenage pregnancy, underage drinking, availablity of hard drugs, pollution, heat etc I would say that sitting inside playing games is one of the safest environments offered to Thai youth, they could be doing things far worse.

[55Jay]

Young Thai guy's parents decided playing drums was a good diversion for their spawn.  

Moved him in to a small townhouse in my moo baan. 

He plays every day, all day.

Parents live miles away.  I wonder why.

 

[Wilsonandson]

Lead by example. Ban phones from schools. Not just kids but teachers and parents too. Provide safe places for families to exercise or just hang out such as parks. Ban phones from shopping malls and supermarkets so children learn to focus more on going out and having fun rather than walking around with their head in a phone. Associate phones with other activities such as online learning. Making the phone a homework device rather than a pleasure device. Have more games that encourage exercise such as pokemon go.

There's lots of ways to discourage phone useage. Reward children who use their phone less each day with an app. Have a diet and exercise routine that parents can install and check to see their child is health and fit.

And here's a biggy. Why not on hot days such as today have a parent or even a street club set with board games, puzzles, toys, activities to keep children occupied instead of playing on their phones.

In the summer holidays when I was a kid we went to scout club twice a week. In my teens we went to cadets and in my late teens we worked in a part time job.

[marcusarelus]

6 minutes ago, Wilsonandson said:

Lead by example. Ban phones from schools. Not just kids but teachers and parents too. Provide safe places for families to exercise or just hang out such as parks. Ban phones from shopping malls and supermarkets so children learn to focus more on going out and having fun rather than walking around with their head in a phone. Associate phones with other activities such as online learning. Making the phone a homework device rather than a pleasure device. Have more games that encourage exercise such as pokemon go.

There's lots of ways to discourage phone useage. Reward children who use their phone less each day with an app. Have a diet and exercise routine that parents can install and check to see their child is health and fit.

And here's a biggy. Why not on hot days such as today have a parent or even a street club set with board games, puzzles, toys, activities to keep children occupied instead of playing on their phones.

In the summer holidays when I was a kid we went to scout club twice a week. In my teens we went to cadets and in my late teens we worked in a part time job.

I see you have never been to a Thai school.  Might want to go sometime. 

[kevvy]

Playgrounds are a important part of a child's up bring .There should be an area for small children and , playground equipment.E.G sand box , swings , slides .There also needs to be a grass area with the older ones can play soccer and other sports .  Services for adults need to be included, such as benches, a grass area where they can sit and relax or have a family outing .Thai cities are lacking in this area of recreation for families. This is not the answer to the problem , but it is a start