This document discusses ideas for parents to set limits on their children's internet and video game usage. It provides 50 potential solutions from obvious options like disconnecting the computer to imaginative ideas if laws of nature could be controlled. The document selects the most practical, disruptive, and favorite ideas. The most practical is having a schedule limiting computer time to 1 hour per day. The most disruptive is using monitoring software. The favorite is checking the computer usage schedule and setting time limits with a timer.

1. IDEATE
Design thinking action lab

2. Problem statement I crafted last week
 PROBLEM:
◦ Facing the new
situation that has
brought home the
incorporation of the
computer, many
parents live the
conflict of not
knowing how to set
limits on their children
in relation to the use
of Internet and video
games.

3. HOWTO SET LIMITS ON
THEIR CHILDREN IN
RELATIONTOTHE USE OF
INTERNET ANDVIDEO
GAMES.

4. Obvious solutions
1. Disconnect the computer
2. Do not install games
3. Put password to the computer
4. Not having internet connection
5. Checking the schedule computer usage
6. Play computer together with parents
7. Hiring a nanny to distract children
8. Put password to the computer
9. Not having a computer at home
10. Having a schedule of activities for children
including 1 hour for the computer (only 1 hour)

5. 5-year-old child think
11. Play computer games short
12. Playing with toys
13. Prefer sweets in exchange for not playing in
computer
14. Homework Contents
15. See books of fairy tales
16. Playing with your parents
17. Play with friends
18. Go to a kindergarten
19. Sleep instead of playing computer
20. Helping the mother in household chores

6. If I had an unlimited budget
21. Having an educational game room
22. Registering your child to different courses (music,
sports, drawing, etc..)
23. Being on vacation all year
24. Traveling to different places
25. Hire people that distract children
26. Buy software to monitor computer use and games
27. Not work and devote my time to be with my
children
28. Buy lots of toys
29. Go with the kids to the amusement park
30. Buy all children want to play does not change
computer

7. Without spending any money
31. Ask grandparents to monitor children
32. Talking to children not to play a lot with computer
33. Not having computer
34. Do not buy game CDs
35. No internet service contract
36. Place the computer usage time on a sheet
37. Check the schedules of children
38. Among parents collaborate with us to control our
children
39. Control exists between siblings for computer use
40. Disconnect the power

8. If I had control over the laws of nature
41. Control the minds of children
42. That computers do not operate more than 1 hour with games
43. Back Invisible computers and visible only for 1 hour
44. That there is power outage
45. That children always want to play physical exercises and
computer-
46. That children's arms become weak after 1 hour of play in
computer
47. That there child mental fatigue after 1 hour of play in computer
48. Climate change according to the number of hours played on
computer
49. That children telepathically send a signal to parents if exceeded
in the use of computer
50. To see in our mind that children do every moment and be able
to communicate if they are not fulfilling their schedule

9. IDEA SELECTION

10. The most practical idea
 Having a schedule of activities for children
including 1 hour for the computer (only 1
hour)
◦ Most child development experts recommend
that the total time children spend at the
screen (which includes watching TV and
movies and play video games or computers) is
limited to one or two hours a day.

11. The most disruptive idea
 Buy software to monitor computer use
and games
◦ In the market various types of content filters
special children, which also function as
antivirus and antispam content provide
protection against disadvantages.
◦ These filters can select content, according to
a schedule and provide records of sites
visited.

12. My favorite idea
 Checking the schedule computer usage
◦ Set a time limit before our children start
playing. For example, if you want your child to
play only 30 minutes, tell him it will be its limit
and set the kitchen timer.
◦ When will ring the bell to end the game,
without protest.
◦ If you complain or try to negotiate to play
longer, quietly Keep telling what your time
frame. If he refuses to stop playing, and save
off the game for the appropriate time.