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How to Engage your Child in Their Games
It is a never-ending struggle to get children out of the game they play, so why not get into their world and understand what they are doing? Intimidating as it sounds, it is not too difficult to connect with your gaming children. Here are three tips to help…
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#PlayApartTogether Family Gaming Fun During COVID-19
WHO recommends video games as an effective way of stop the spread of COVID-19 and working with the gaming industry to launch the #PlayApartTogether campaign. Below are a few links to the news releases: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/who-video-games-playaparttogether/ https://www.businessinsider.com/who-video-games-coronavirus-pandemic-mental-health-disorder-2020-4?IR=T In response to this campaign, our Esports Coach Ruth Lim picked a few…
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My PSLE and O Levels Regrets
My PSLE and O Levels Regrets I had two regrets growing up. The first was missing out on one question in my Mathematics paper during PSLE. This question cost me 8 marks. The second was missing the last page of my A Mathematics paper for O Levels, this…
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Game Addiction in Singapore
Game Addiction in Singapore as Reported by Media Today Online published an article about a gamer with an addiction problem and “It took a US$48,000 (about S$67,000) overseas detox programme for 23-year-old Bernard Lim (not his real name) to kick his gaming addiction.” This raises the question if…
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The Beginning of COMEBACK
Community is the focus of SOOS OIO. In SOOS OIO, we love running TeleTrips and engaging the gamers. I never thought we will have a program on game dependency. This was not part of my plan. In fact, the problem of game addiction was brought up to me…