Tablet or pads? Talking with a psychologist on Tuesday in "Gazeta ... - Gazeta Wyborcza

Marta Diplomacy: Are computer games harm children? Dr. Urszula Sajewicz-Radtke: It depends on what the story is based. In the U.S. studies have shown that playing prosocial increase the desire to help others. It has been proved by experiment that was, that one group of children playing in the so-called. “Shooting”, and the other in a game that consisted of something good, such as saving a herd of lemmings death, or help the victims of the accident. After I recorded the kids invited them to the room where the experimenter accidentally scatter like pencils. Children who virtually helped gather the scattered objects, those in the second group, which was in contact with aggression on a computer monitor, no. This is a very strong signal that tells about what affects us.

Games perpetuate certain patterns and only parents and their choice when purchasing depends on what the child will assimilate.

Perhaps the safest way to buy educational games

Unless you are boring, yes. Let us remember that even simple game can teach, if appropriate story and communicate the desired patterns.

A friend told me that her six-year-son frequently after 30 minutes of play in Angry Birds is edgy, yet this game teaches precision and could pass for education.

In this case we are not dealing with the problem of technology. If the board in Mahjong he would not come out too upset. Parents devote much attention to the development of cognitive and emotional development forget. The situation described above is the result of the fact that the child can not cope with setbacks. Well, my mom or dad playing together with his son, and when the voltage increases, intervened. They showed that here can not work out right away, but the previous board went great. Parents should also remind you when your child has been successful. If you still do not go out, you have to translate the excitement of the game to real life, and recalled that at school, and never left the letter “B”, he wrote it 40 times, and so it may be a given a board that will have to be a little more to practice. Thanks to showing that the emotions that a child feels playing experience also in other situations, we go to cope with them.

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