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Kids Contests: A Cure for Video Games this Summer

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Kids contests are a great way to ward off the damaging effects of non-stop video game playing, something kids are sure to be doing if parents don't step in to intervene. Imagine that, video game intervention. Who thought this would be necessary? Nothing destroys childhood summertime memories more than being holed up in a dark bedroom, hour upon hour, day after day, wasting away before the mind-numbing, non-interactive control of video games.

With technological advances, it is pretty much certain that if a family has video games in the house, they should also have a digital camera. Kids should be encouraged to use these things to take pictures of the world around them, and go online to enter them into children photography contests. This would include taking pictures on family vacations, a day at the beach or swimming pool, trips to the park, or just hanging out with their friends. It'll teach them to look more closely at the world around them, and to realize there is life outside a video game console.

Picture contests are similar to photography contests, but instead of using a digital camera or cell phone to take pictures of the world around them, kids would take pen or paint or pencil to paper to draw their interpretation of the world around them, expressing themselves as only they know how. The pictures could then be scanned into the computer and uploaded to online picture contests.

Perhaps your child's talent leans toward the written word? Poetry contests, essay contests and short story contests are wonderful ways to tap into this creative reservoir. I even came across a contest online, where kids wrote short adventure stories which took place in foreign countries. What better way to teach a child about world cultures and geography than to have them enter such a contest, using their imaginations and having fun along the way. There are numerous such contests online. A search using Google will reveal all these wondrous opportunities. These are events that video games cannot hope to teach your child.

If the internet is not your style, or you would like to limit your child's access to it, then by all means, take a trip to the local bookstore or library, and seek out the many contest magazines housed there. There are complete magazines that cater to contests of all sorts, from writing, to drawing to photography. And it would get your kids out of the house once in a while.

Don't forget, while you are making the rounds of contests, in the real world or online, your youngest child. You know, that cute, adorable baby? Cute baby contests are still run all the time, and it would be a chance for you to enter such contests, win a few of them (if not all of them), so that you can go to your relatives for Thanksgiving, if only to brag and say, "I told you so!"

The possibilities are in endless supply thanks to the internet. The internet does not have to be considered a dangerous device in which your children should be kept away. There are numerous resources that can be used, with proper parental supervision, to explore our world and the people in it, and encourage the blossoming of promising early careers.

Kids contests are a fun, exciting way to keep kids from wasting away their summer break on mindless, useless, nonprocuctive activities. It is also a tremendously enjoyable way for parents and their kids to come together in a creative way, to secure the bonds of childhood memories in the hearts of their loved ones forever.