Re: why the kids are inside

 > Retrograde wrote:
 > From the «scary outside» department:
 > Title: It’s not them, it’s us: the real reason teens are
‘addicted’ to video games | Keith Stuart and Keza MacDonald
 > Author: Keith Stuart and Keza MacDonald
 > Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:30:12 +0000
 > Link:
https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/jul/09/its-not-them-its-us-the-real-reason-teens-are-addicted-to-video-games
 > Podcast Download URL:
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 >
 > We criticise children for not going outside – while curtailing
their freedoms
 > and closing their spaces
 >
 > On Sunday the Observer magazine published a sensitive piece[1]
about video game
 > addiction, speaking to therapists working in the sector and one
affected
 > family. Genuine, compulsive, life-altering addiction, whether to
video games or
 > anything else, is of course devastating for those affected by it.
Since the WHO
 > classified gaming addiction as a specific disorder in 2018[2]
(distinct from
 > technology addiction), the specialist National Centre for Gaming
Disorders set
 > up in the UK has treated just over 1,000 patients. Thankfully, the
numbers
 > suggest it is rare, affecting less than 1% of the 88% of teenagers
who play
 > games.
 >
 > The article asked, “why are so many young people addicted to
video games?”,
 > which no doubt struck a chord with many parents who despair at the
amount of
 > time their children spend in front of computers and consoles.
Speaking as the
 > video games editor and correspondent at the Guardian, however, we
think that
 > most of us who are worried about how long our teenagers are
spending with games
 > are not dealing with an addiction problem, nor with compulsive
behaviour. If we
 > want to know why many teens choose of their own free will to spend
10 or 20
 > hours a week playing games, rather than pathologising them, we
ought to look
 > around us.
 > Continue reading...[3]
 >
 > Links:
 > [1]:
https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/jul/07/video-games-why-are-so-many-young-people-addicted
(link)
 > [2]:
https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/gaming-disorder
(link)
 > [3]:
https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/jul/09/its-not-them-its-us-the-real-reason-teens-are-addicted-to-video-games
(link)

It is hot enough to fry an egg outside, it is far more
sane to be inside.
 

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