Your children are addicts. Well, not really, but according to Dr Alex Yellowlees of the Priory Hospital in Glasgow they are. But why does Dr Yellowlees believe that your child?s XBOX, PS3 or Wii will violently murder your child and then molest their corpse?
The obvious answer is because he's a whole spread short of a picnic, or (more likely) he's just a press whore.
?Dr? Yellowlees, who offers Personal Life Coaching Consultation as well as sensationalised sound bites, believes that our children are at risk of becoming addicted to videogames as parents look to games as a method of keeping their kids quiet for a few hours.
But wait, I'm sure I've heard this argument before about television and the internet. Come to think of it, it was a certain Alex Yellowlees who said all of these things are highly addictive. Who?d have thought the Medical Director of a private addiction clinic would be able to find so many things to declare dangerously addictive?
According to the good doctor parents should look out for the warning signs of gaming addiction include:
?Tendonitis in wrists and neck pain, depression, mood swings, angry outbursts if interrupted or restricted, avoiding normal socialising and being active with other friends, preferring to be in their rooms to being with the family (even for meals), and deterioration in quality of school work and poor attention during classes.?
Aren't these the normal habits of teenagers? Admittedly tendonitis in the wrists would only affect the males and the really slutty females (although where these slutty female gamers would find the time to get out and about so much with all the gaming they're doing is beyond me).
Gaming isn't actually listed as an addiction, but according to the BBC parents and doctors such as Yellowlees (read: fake ones) are growing, ?increasingly alarmed,? at how many children are locking themselves away in their room to play videogames.
None of them seem to see the irony in this as they are the same parent groups and doctors that tell you to lock your child away in some sort of Fritzl like dungeon to save them from paedophiles and items that don't comply with every health and safety regulation under the sun.
Yellowlees does actually have one sensible thing to say, parents should spend more time with their kids. Which is a nice sentiment, even if it is so painfully obvious it makes me wonder whether or not Mr Yellowlees got his PhD from a seaside claw machine.
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Jessica James says
I can see that who ever wrote the pile of crap above doesn’t have children because if they had children who had a gamesole, then he would understand the points that Dr Yellowlees made. Your views seem extremely immature and defensive and I can only see that a teenager with a gaming addiction problem himself would comment in such a way. I read the article from Dr Alex Yellowlees and I thought it was good of him to raise such an important issue, an issue which a vast majority of parents are facing. I don’t remember reading that game addiction can kill. For your information there are more gaming addiction clinics opening up more than ever. My suggestion to you is spend less time on the computer reading articles which you’re obviously too young to understand and quit soundind like a complete immature turd.