There are teen boys in Britain Play more time Video game According to research, compared to being in one class.
Average 15- to 17 year old boy spends almost 34 hours a week on video gamesA new report of Mumsnet has been revealed. In comparison, students are expected to be School 32.5 hours a week.
While boys play more video games than girls constantly, average overall time Children spend Gaming The last year has increased by 16.8 hours to 20.4 hours a week.
Mumsnet founder Justin Roberts said: “Mumsnet users are rapidly worried about their children spending the amount of time spent on screen, and with limited first hand experience of gaming, many Guardian It is challenging to understand business and bands between risks and rewards. ,
A study by more than 1,000 parents of children between seven and 17 years old found that about eight out of ten parents are concerned about their baby’s gaming screen time, and two-thirds of the risk of gaming addictions.
The pole was held in collaboration with YGAM, focusing on the prevention of a young charity gaming and gambling loss. Interim Chief Executive Officer Helen Martin said: “There is an essential role of education – not only for young gamers, but also for adults who take care of them – to help children protect and keep coordination with our fast -developing digital world.”
Parents are calling for more preventive education in schools, with 91 percent support on gaming horms and 83 percent support on gambling dangers. Most believe that it should be in primary school, but only 40 percent said that they knew about their children that they had received any such education.
Additionally, children are being rapidly exposed for in-app shopping, as 52 percent of parents have seen elements such as gambling in their children’s game. These usually take the form of mystery boxes (33 percent) and loot boxes (30 percent), which mimic gambling because they include a transaction in exchange for a chance result.
Although 90 percent of the parents set the spending limit for their children while playing video games, the parents of 15- to 17 years old were the lowest compared to other ages.
Nevertheless, the vast majority of the parents – 96 percent – also recognized some comfort benefits that gaming may be in terms of reducing stress levels and digital literacy, solving the problem and encouraging important thinking.
Gaming is more than just one hobby for something, in which one in four boys aspire to have professional e-sport gamers in the future of nine or ten years of age and two-thirds of parents supporting the path of this career.