Computer games: A mother reports how Lennart (10) got addicted *** BILDplus content *** – game news


A mother reports

Lennart (10) was addicted to computer games

How the family overcame the crisis

Photo: Benevento Verlag / Ralph Wentz

The game that drove her son into addiction looked cute and harmless. Funny cartoon characters with imaginative superpowers like flying suitcases, snowballs, bears or bats competed against each other.

When Lennart, then ten years old, asked his mother for permission to play “Brawl Stars” with his classmates, she made the gut decision. “Yes, of course you can play along,” replied Ulrike Wolpers.

It was the beginning of a downward slide. Read with BILDplus how the then ten-year-old slipped into computer game addiction, which path brought him back and what Ulrike Wolper’s advice to other parents.

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