Azziria's journal

We moved around a lot when I was a child - my dad was a geologist and kept being moved to different mines - so I never really had any friends and also spent a lot of time on my own. I had a Spectrum, and I spent the whole day playing games on it, so I suspect I would have also been addicted to the Net. But I think the major difference was that my parents took an interest in my computer-playing - instead of being tucked away in my room, I used to play on the lounge TV most of the time. And my dad would play games too, so we were always having conversations about it. I think one of the key things is actually being interactive with your kids, regardless of what they're doing. For instance if they're on the Net a lot, you could join a discussion forum together or do something like that, so that the child at least feels that you're involved with what they're doing.