
"This month, I picked up a concerned parent from the waiting room. I walked her to my office and asked how I could help. "My 10-year-old son can't focus on anything. I think it's because of the video games. He won't read because he says it's boring, he won't even play a board game with me. He keeps getting in trouble at school for playing games on his Chromebook in class. The only time he sits still is when he's playing video games.""
"Researchers have proposed several hypotheses that might account for any relationship between video games and trouble paying attention. Video games are so exciting that everything else is boring by comparison. I regularly hear this complaint from young clients. School is boring. Homework is boring. Teachers are boring. How can anyone expect them to sit through class when they know how much more fun they could be having?"
Studies indicate that playing video games has little to no direct impact on attention span for most children. Young children may be more vulnerable to effects from screen time than older children. Gaming-related sleep disruptions can impair concentration and worsen attention during the day. The high stimulation and reward structure of many games can make ordinary tasks like reading or classroom work seem dull by comparison. Excessive gaming can displace activities that build sustained attention, such as reading or learning music. Individuals with attention difficulties, including ADHD, are often drawn to video games because games are easier to engage with than other pastimes. Other variables, like gender, can correlate with both gaming and attention patterns.
Read at Psychology Today
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