A dangerous hobby: 5 activities that can harm a child

Adolescent children go through several stages of personality formation. At this time, the child is looking for his place in the world, makes friends, he has idols. The teenager is overwhelmed with energy and interest in life, so he seeks to try different activities. Some show their talents by doing music, dancing, sports. Others find expression through potentially dangerous hobbies, including extreme ones. If these hobbies are not controlled, the child may suffer.

Computer games

Even adults often become addicted to computer games. In the eyes of a teenager, this hobby looks even more attractive. Indeed, in the game you can become a brave hero. Virtual reality is always full of bright events, adventures, adventures that do not happen in life.

However, adolescents easily lose their control, so they begin to disappear in virtual reality around the clock. This quickly leads to problems in their real life. Scientists have found that computer games cause addiction of the same strength as alcohol with drugs.

A computer replaces everything - communication with friends, study, development of intellectual abilities and talents. In fact, virtual reality robs the teenager of the future. He runs the risk of growing up as a closed, notorious and uneducated person who will have difficulty finding a job and arranging his personal life.

However, excessive enthusiasm for computer games is fraught with the development of not only psychological problems, but also a deterioration in physical well-being. For adolescents who spend a lot of time in virtual reality, spinal diseases are characteristic:

• osteochondrosis;
• scoliosis;
• pinched nerves;
• intervertebral hernia.

Games are so addictive that teens often forget about food. They drive themselves to exhaustion and hungry fainting. There is a reverse situation: some teenagers, sitting at the computer, constantly chew chips, sandwiches, sweets. As a result, they are gaining excess weight. In both cases, irreparable damage to the stomach is caused.

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Since the teenage gambling addict practically never happens in the fresh air, he has a deficiency of vitamin D. As a result, immunity is weakened, the child begins to get sick often. During games at night, the high contrast of the monitor increases the load on the eyesight. Violation of the regime of the day and rest causes problems with sleep.

Many read the news about how a high school student died after playing a 22-day fantasy strategy game. The teenager was recovering from a leg fracture. To pass the time, he decided to play a computer game. The blood clot that formed at the fracture site was named as the official cause of the boy’s death.However, cardiologists said that such phenomena are characteristic of those who live in virtual reality. If a person who has spent many hours in a sitting position stands up abruptly, the blood clot may come off. This leads to blockage of blood vessels, subsequent stroke or pulmonary embolism.

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Extreme sport

Teenagers often turn to extreme sports, believing that risk is an easy way to attract attention, to make others respect themselves. In addition, snowboarding, base jumping, climbing, rope jumping allow you to get vivid emotions and adrenaline. However, these sports are expensive, so children cannot practice them without the consent and help of their parents.

The greatest danger is for teenagers to tickle their nerves and demonstrate their courage to their peers. It is much more difficult for parents to control such hobbies. So, among teenagers, parkour is popular. Tracers overcome various obstacles: climb walls without insurance, jump over fences, railings of stairs. The risk of injury in parkour is very high, and not only for beginners. Even experienced tracers have accidents.

Now an even more dangerous hobby is becoming popular - hooking. Teenagers cling to the last car of the train, climb the roof, and the whole process is filmed on the phone. Among the hookers, riding on the roof of a train through a tunnel is considered particularly prestigious. Of course, such a hobby turns into a huge number of accidents. Teenagers fall from the roofs of cars, dying as a result of electric shocks. Daredevils try to cling to the high-speed Sapsan. However, for most, this trip becomes the last.

Among the potentially dangerous activities can be identified weightlifting. Teenagers certainly need to play sports. However, when lifting weights, it is important to observe safety precautions and control loads. It is better if the teenager is engaged in the supervision of a coach. Otherwise, he risks stretching the ligaments, damaging the spine.

Military sports games

Games related to motor activity certainly benefit. However, some of them are traumatic.

So, the military-sports game of hardball is popular with adolescents. It involves the use of very realistic weapons that shoot accurately and at high speed. Instead of bullets, balls of metal are used. However, in the absence of proper protection, such a projectile can penetrate the body to a depth of 1 cm.

Hardball is played in conditions close to combat. Participants must show miracles of endurance, accuracy, dexterity. All this requires moral and physical exertion from the adolescent, for which the growing organism is simply not ready. Game grounds are set up on abandoned wastelands, in the ruins of buildings. It is worth being distracted for a second - and you can stumble, dislocate or break a leg.

Airsoft and paintball are lite versions of hardball. Although the probability of injury is lower during these games, they cannot be called safe. Participants often get bruises as well as eye damage.

Fashion and beauty

Girls in adolescence are actively interested in fashion, cosmetics, try to look beautiful. This is a natural stage of growing up. The problem is that teenagers often get hung up on their appearance, and for other hobbies in their life there is no place. Nowadays, even teenage boys begin to apply makeup, go on diets to improve their shape, and select fashionable clothes.

The desire to look beautiful can turn into a mania. Popular among teens tattoos and piercings cause a negative reaction in most parents. Therefore, children go to underground salons, where the masters agree to carry out any procedures for a minimum payment. In such conditions, sterility of instruments is rarely observed.In winter, teens often wear light clothes because they look more stylish. In the future, this threatens kidney problems and other diseases.

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Girls in pursuit of ideal forms sometimes completely refuse to eat. There are even forums on the Internet dedicated to anorexia. There, girls share tips on how to endure hunger, how to punish themselves for food. Such mockery of the body does not pass without a trace. In addition, using a large amount of cosmetics from a young age, teens run the risk of causing premature skin aging.

Beauty is costly, and children begin to beg for money from their parents. Faced with failure, they become even more moody and uncontrollable. This affects the atmosphere in the family.

Selfies

The craze for selfies only at first glance seems harmless. In fact, this hobby is fraught with dangers for adolescents, so he was dubbed "self-confidence." Trying to take the most original photo in order to get more likes and comments, children forget about safety.

Passion for selfies is sometimes fatal for teens. They die under different circumstances: some try to take pictures on a motorcycle and get into an accident, unable to cope with control, others are broken as a result of a fall from a height, and others accidentally injure themselves. At one time, the news about a girl who was photographed holding a traumatic gun against her head and accidentally pulled the trigger was widely discussed.

What to do if a child has a dangerous hobby?

Bans, notations and punishments - all of these methods are ineffective in educating adolescents. At this age, children consider themselves independent, all have their own opinions and are very sensitive to criticism.

The best way is to try to redirect the indefatigable energy of the teenager in a different direction. Try to engage him in safer activities, which may also be interesting. Communicate more with your child, take an interest in his problems, tell him that he is talented, beautiful. If he feels self-confidence and the support of loved ones, he will not have the need to prove something to his peers in risky ways.

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