For these reasons, Iraqis encourage their children to play popular games

Auspicious Basil-Diyala

Sumaya Mohammed is trying to encourage her five children to leave electronic games where they spend most of the day and night, and get them out of isolation of those games to the spirit of popular games; because they are more useful in the refinement of their minds.

Sumaya (39 years) of the island Net that she is one of the most opposed to the possession of children electronic devices, but she was forced to buy them because of their murmurs and to have children uncles and uncles those devices, pointing out that after two days of possession of the devices began to appear inactivity on them, especially males, and did not They hear my call, do not eat on time, and do not feel hungry until the electronic device runs out of charge.

She added that she also spotted movements and actions that she had not seen before; prompting her to take serious practical steps to guide them towards the safer popular games and the development of their minds, and began to withdraw electronic devices from them gradually.

"Her five children, aged between three and nine, have been spending eight hours from waking up to five o'clock in the electronic game," said Sumaya, an electrical engineer and government employee.

`` The children started to return to the popular and ordinary games that we, as young people, played and were handed down by generations.The father played with them football, swimming and other popular games such as astigmatism, running behind other children and others, with the aim of keeping them away from the danger of devices that stole their childhood and their most beautiful days. ''

She stressed that the provision of alternatives to them, such as registration in a children's club and courses of Quran memorization in mosques, and the participation of playing at home and even outside, strengthened their confidence in leaving their electronic devices dangerous.

Academic opinion
Academician Mekdad al-Samarrai told Al Jazeera Net about the need to encourage children to play popular games and stay away from electronic games, but noted that the factor that encouraged the child - especially the Iraqi or his family - on these games after the US invasion in 2003 is the danger of playing in The streets or areas open to their lives.

Samarrai, a university professor at the University of Tikrit, pointed out that the other thing is addiction; the fact that the games achieve a state of satisfaction and imaginary because the nature of the progressive composition - especially the teenager - loves excitement and victory and draw attention and drain the focus through the mental effort in useless , So the children's minds have gone out of school.

Here is the difference - according to the Iraqi academic - between the games of childhood in the past and the present; , But electronic games have no time limit, and they undermine family communication.

But Samurai stressed that this does not conflict with the need to communicate with the language of modern times and modern techniques, provided that there is a smart scheduling to save the child's life, intelligence and social communication, and this is what I did with my children from rationing play time and diversification and care for popular games and not to forget.

Child behavior
Many studies confirm the existence of a relationship between violent behavior of the child and the scenes of violence that he sees on television or in electronic games, and has shown that violence is compounded by playing the high-tech games that characterize today's games, as well as affect his educational level and his escape from school to play electronic games. , Especially those who spend more than five hours in those games.

Dr. Asmaa Abdul Jabbar, head of the Childhood and Motherhood Research Center at Diyala University, recommends that children be encouraged to play natural games at home, on the street and in parks, because they increase their mental abilities and love for the group instead of playing on their own. Complexity or isolation from the rest of the family and friends;