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At noon on August 13,Tencent has launched a new function for querying game accounts linked to ID cards. Children can instantly check when they use their parents’ accounts to play games or make top-ups.

It is reported that this function can be used to query the login and recharge status of all Tencent game accounts under a certain ID card account within a month, and it can also provide real-time notifications.

For example: If Xiao Ming logs in or recharges the game using his father’s account, Xiao Ming’s father will receive a notification.

Many netizens expressed their support, saying, "It's so necessary!" "It's a very practical function" and "I'm going to check it out right now." Some netizens also raised questions, "What if the child uses grandma's phone to play? The old lady can't understand it, and the parents don't know about it." In response, Tencent said that the elderly's account can be set up as "banned from playing and charging + self-management + green phone reporting" on the Growth Guardian applet. In addition, some netizens asked, "How to ensure that the person entering the information is the individual himself?" Tencent replied that the identity card authorization requires face verification.

Games are attractive and children are easily addicted

How parents can help their children

How to stay away from game addiction?

Understand that it is a child’s nature to love playing.Playing online games can bring happiness to children and promote peer relationships. Playing online games may improve children's cognitive abilities and enrich their knowledge.

Understand the psychological needs behind your children’s online games.For example, adolescents in puberty are in rapid physical and mental development and crave recognition from others. At the same time, they face multiple challenges such as increased academic pressure. Playing online games may become an outlet for children's emotions.

Teach by example.Parents can set the best example for their children by practicing what they preach. If you ask your children to control the time they spend playing online games on their phones, parents should also reduce the time they spend playing on their phones.

Avoid stopping your child from playing online games at a critical moment.Because playing online games can satisfy children's need for a sense of achievement, if parents confiscate their phones or shut down their computers at a critical moment, it will cause strong emotional reactions in children, and may even lead to physical conflicts; if children say they want to play online games for a while longer, parents can appropriately extend the time they spend playing online games. Afterwards, parents should calmly discuss with their children the compensation measures for not putting down their phones at the agreed time, such as shortening the time they spend playing with their phones next time or reducing the number of times they use their phones to play online games.

Give your children respect.For adolescent children, parents should respect their autonomy, give them more freedom, and reach a mutually acceptable set of rules with them. In the process of determining the rules with their children, parents also meet their children's psychological needs for autonomy, that is, "I have the final say in my own affairs."

Attach importance to parent-child relationship.During the communication process with the child, if the parent finds that the child is in a bad mood and clearly expresses the willingness to refuse to communicate, the parent should find another opportunity to communicate with the child. Parents communicating with emotional children often damage the parent-child relationship.

How to live in peace with your cell phone

1. Fixed time and location.During the summer vacation, parents should arrange a variety of extracurricular activities for their children to avoid a monotonous and stereotyped extracurricular life. If the children are at home, parents should accompany their children to make plans for playing online games on their mobile phones to prevent them from playing with their mobile phones for a long time. For example, they should take a 5-minute break every 30 minutes of playing with their mobile phones, and the total time of playing games per day should be less than 4 hours.

2. Avoid playing online games on your mobile phone in dark environments.If you play online games on your phone in a dark environment, the contrast between the phone screen and the ambient light is large, which can easily cause ciliary spasm, causing visual fatigue, eye soreness, foreign body sensation, and worsening myopia. The short-wave blue light from the phone will inhibit the production of melatonin in the human body, and the reduction of melatonin will affect the sleep-wake cycle and affect sleep quality.

3. Turn off your phone before going to bed and put it away properly.Turning off the phone before going to bed can create a quiet sleeping atmosphere, avoid the influence of the phone's notification sound at night, and avoid checking the phone at any time. It is recommended to place the turned-off phone in a public area or the parents' room. Because the brains of minors are still in the development stage and their self-control ability is relatively weak, placing the phone in a public area or the parents' room is convenient for parents to supervise.

It is important to note that everything is excessive or inadequate. Parents and children should be flexible in implementing all the above suggestions.

Sources of the Political and Legal Channel: Comprehensive China Economic Net, Tencent WeChat, Securities Daily, Weiyan Education, etc.