The 8-year-old tells how he or she is circulating in game limits

Was the night. Maybe not gloomy and dark, but night just as much.

It was quiet in the apartment block in Tampere as its inhabitants, Sami Koivikko, Maria shoemaker and Sampo shoemaker8, were sleeping.

At one o’clock at night, the silence broke the Minecraft TNT wake -up watch. But only for a moment, because Sampo quickly turned off that the parents would not wake up. For a moment, he listened to whether nothing about the house and then snapped out of the room.

He gently opened the older bedroom door, pawn to his father’s bed and lifted the phone next to his father.

« Really, really carefully, I raised Sam’s hand, » says Sampo, and adds that even more carefully, he pressed his father’s thumb to fingerprint authentication.

The phone opened and Dad didn’t wake up, so Sampo went to the Family Link application and turned off all the screen limits. Family Link is a Google child lock application that allows parents to limit their children’s phone’s use.

Now the road was free to play on the phone games throughout the night.

« The next day, the teacher came to a message that Sampo had a difficult day and he seems tired, » says Sami.

For shampoo A week -of -a -week ban on the rapture, but it was not the first time the child showed exceptional cleverness when he wanted to go around his parents’ screen prohibitions.

For the first time, he toured screening restrictions when he was six years old. Sami had put the restrictions on the computer, but forgot that they could also adjust them via the living room media computer.

« Sampo couldn’t even read or write at this point, but he had realized that the limitations could be adjusted through the Family link. »

Sampo wrote the letters F and A in the browser and the browser complemented the rest.

“Sampo managed to turn off all the restrictions.”

Although Sampo’s cleverness is admirable, causing gaming in parents also worry.

« Sampo was calmer during the ban on the game.

In addition to screen restrictions, parents have tried too much to add to gaming, for example, by giving Sampo positive feedback when they do something else, such as playing with Lego or being outdoors.

According to parents, the habit sometimes works, sometimes not.

Sometimes, when Sampo and the guys are shepherded out, they go to sit in the bottom of the yard.

« There they are staring at the phone. They put on the timer and when half an hour has gone, they come to rumble the doorbell to go outside for half an hour. »

Screen restrictions It is also twisted so that the kids go home to play a friend who happens to have a game day.

With the parents of my friends, this has been attempted to incense by agreeing on the same game days. But:

« Sami has given me restrictions, but breaks those restrictions himself, » Sampo reveals.

Sami admits that he sometimes slips from the rules. He understands the addiction of gaming well because he also plays a lot himself.

« Sometimes I can’t think about anything other than playing, especially if I play a strategy game like Satisfactory. »

Sam, as Sampo calls his father, has three squares in the game cave. Everyone is in use when Sampo plays there with his friends. Picture: Petteri Tuohinen / HS

Indeed, the family has favorable conditions for playing, as the father’s gaming cave has a stunning three squares.

« When you play with your friends, one screen has a game, another youtube and the third Musa, » says Sampo.

So far Sampo’s gaming has been kept under control, as his father’s skills are still over the boy. Sami thinks that as the boy grows, restrictions are becoming increasingly difficult.

« Sampo easily adopts new things on a computer and has a counseling to find detergents. »

« This is a bit of a cat and mouse play. »