Why is Playstation playing worse than watching TV?

I'm 13, have good grades in high school (1.9 average) and still my parents don't let me play during the week. What really upsets me is that my smaller siblings (11 and 7 years old) are allowed to watch TV almost indefinitely.

When they come from school and in the evening from 7:00 p.m. To 8:00 p.m.

The joke is that they don't even watch any knowledge programs, but something as spongebob. Pure entertainment program.

If I then ask if I should maybe play during the week, I'm immediately rejected and then when I ask why television is allowed, something like this comes up:

1st, television has always been there "

2. "What about school?"

3rd, you will still be addicted to it "

4. Playing TV and Playstation is not the same "

My opinion on the arguments:

1.Is that a good thing now?

I do my homework and study beforehand, as I'm home at 2:00 p.m. So I would easily manage it in time.

3. I can only gamble on weekends. I then play a maximum of three hours a day. And not even in one go. I have no withdrawal symptoms 🙂 and I feel the need to gamble every day. I just think it's just unfair, that my siblings are allowed to watch so much television, I just want to play for two hours after I've finished school.

4. Why does television have such a halo? After all, you just let yourself be sprinkled by the senseless program (still talking about children's television) and don't do anything yourself. You are active in gaming.

Therefore, you have any contra arguments against television and keep in mind that I start from pure entertainment stuff for children and not from things that may expand a child's horizons (Feel that this makes it rather stupid).

Do you have any arguments for gaming?

Television is no better or worse than daddling. I also find the regulation somewhat unfair.

TV has always been there? Well, clearly yours for your parents. Ok, there were game consoles at their age, but there were fewer children than today. The consoles are normal for you.

I think it would be fair if there was "media time" for everyone. It doesn't matter how and when he uses it. I would only limit it in this respect: First, homework is done and not after… O'clock.

If your parents would ban television, they would have to ban it themselves… If the television is on, somehow others will automatically watch. Although there's a lot of garbage on TV and I wouldn't even watch it without sound!

When you play games, PC, Playstation etc… Time flies by! Unfortunately, it's also a lot of fun.

As an argument, you could bring that you have a total headache from all the learning and would need a few minutes of distraction:-)

Otherwise hold out! Better times keep coming!

You have noticed it yourself, it is not entirely logical. Your parents are overprotective. You hear again and again what a bad influence computer games have on young people. You may also have a friend over five corners who has had an addiction. And apparently they are also notorious TV viewers, there are always some killer game documentaries for safety vest parents.

The thing with television is probably because they grew up with it. They therefore think that they can better assess the consequences of consumption. Logically speaking, television demands much less than a game: telly on, head out and let yourself be drizzled for hours, every day.

You will hardly be able to change anything about that. Maybe you have to go to friends and play there. You can decide for yourself in a year or two. Seek the conversation with your parents!

In the end, they mean it well and don't want your school performance to deteriorate as a result. But why you have to be a single student at 13 is not entirely clear to me. In this age, your own interests take precedence, after all, you don't have the time later. Well, not my beer.

ps: I spent a reasonably large part of my youth playing computer games and still did a one-cut in high school. You have to be able to set priorities when it matters. Playing helped me a lot with English.

Here are a few contras:

1) Damage to health: eyes are damaged, tempted to snack - one gets fat, lack of movement

2) overlooks time, no interest in learning

3) Social contacts with family and friends decrease

4) Parents have little control. You can watch what you want when parents are not there.

In the end, your parents do what they want anyway and probably don't listen to you anyway, most of the time you can't teach older people, that's because of their pride.

What I did at that time is: I played strategy games from time to time, really played games in which you learn something and showed you that it definitely makes more sense than sitting in front of the telly.

What you can still do, I decided with my parents back then.

Make a schedule:

08: 00-14.00 = school

14: 30-15: 30 = arrival at home (have a bite to eat), be with family.

15: 30-17: 30 = doing homework, learning

17:00 - 19:00 = gamble

etc…

Maybe that will help you if you show your parents that you are doing your job, that you can manage your time, maybe you can look for newspaper articles on the Internet that prove that a healthy level of gaming can also have a good effect on you there are umpteen studies.

Life as a child is always difficult, you can do it somehow!

Thank you

Thank you, I will do it

Great answer. Comment on the schedule: This is very German. Can you really manage to check your daily rhythm like this?

I think that's a good way to persuade the parents first, it doesn't have to stay that way forever ;-)