When the ＂cigarette brand＂ made of cigarette boxes is popular in primary schools, will it bring adverse effects？ How to correctly understand the ＂smoke card＂ game？

Beijing, April 8 (Reporter Ren Mengyan, Fu Lei, Zhu Yong, Voice of China, General Station of China Radio and Television) According to News Horizon, children’s games are always full of infinite imagination and creativity. Recently, however, a game called "cigarette card" and "cigarette card" has become popular among primary school students in many places. The props of the "cigarette card" game come from cigarette boxes. Children make rectangular cards by folding the cigarette box cover and put them on the ground to take turns to shoot. Whoever can flip the other person’s cigarette card will win the other person’s cigarette card.

Although such games let children go out of the room and stay away from the electronic screen, they also make some parents very worried. Will the children’s premature contact with cigarette boxes have adverse effects? Faced with this phenomenon, education departments and schools in many areas have begun to take action to guide children to correctly understand the "cigarette card" game by issuing tips and carrying out moral education courses.

Children’s "cigarette cards" (Source: Guankou Education Development Center)

"Cigarette cards" are popular in many primary schools. Many parents worry that using cigarette boxes as toys will mislead children. A father stated his concern in the video. In order to play with cigarette cards, children picked up cigarette cases everywhere. "This is my child’s recent addiction to the cigarette card game. As a parent, I am very worried. You (children) are now walking down the street looking for cigarette cases everywhere, right? Are you going to pick up garbage? " The child said, "everywhere?" That’s not everywhere. "

Parents don’t smoke, and they can’t find cigarette cases. Children will also choose to go to small shops to buy specially made "cigarette cards".

Parents: 1 yuan and 2 yuan.

Child: And 1.5 yuan’s.

Parents: Can you still sell this thing in 1 yuan?

Child: There is a rare edition in 2 yuan! The kind that is hard to find.

Parents have different attitudes towards this kind of game. Some people think that it is good to let children go out and play with their friends. Some people worry that premature contact with cigarette boxes will have an adverse effect on children.

Parent A: We were all grounded at that time, but now the games they play may lose that innocence.

Parent B: It seems to be a toy. I don’t think (they) will associate cigarettes with any harm to their health. He is still young and doesn’t understand these things.

Parent C: At that time, the child asked me for it, and I tried not to give it to him. You can’t give a cigarette case. Try to play with something else.

Parent D: (Children) may just like to pick up (cigarette cases) on the ground, which may need attention, and some (children) ask parents to buy expensive cigarettes, which is a bit bad.

In response to this problem, the education departments in many places have begun to take measures. For example, on April 7th, the Education Bureau of Sanya City, Hainan Province issued "Important Tips for Preventing Students from Addicting to" Cigarette Card "Games", clarifying that "Cigarette Card" comes from discarded cigarette cases, and collecting it around and carrying it with you may endanger students’ physical and mental health. Moreover, students may enlighten their gambling consciousness in the game and have interest and curiosity about smoking. Parents are requested to cooperate with the school to prohibit "cigarette cards" from entering the campus. Once the school finds that students bring "cigarette cards" into the school or find that students are playing "cigarette cards" in the school, it can immediately stop and confiscate the "cigarette cards" on the spot, and at the same time conduct oral education and give feedback to parents.

Children playing "cigarette cards" (Source: Guankou Education Development Center)

In Daowu Primary School in Liuyang City, Hunan Province, a moral education class was held. The school distributed questionnaires to parents and students, hoping that they would make their own answers. Most of the more than 1,000 primary school students want to play with cigarette cards, but nearly half of the parents think that at least they can’t play at school. Chen Lisha, principal of Daowu Primary School, told reporters that instead of simply banning a game, it is better to take this opportunity to build a bridge between children and parents. "Banned it, because there are requirements at the next higher level, and parents are worried about playing in schools, but I just want both sides to be seen and understood, so there will be such an interaction. Parents may think that I just won’t let you play this game, and you will have more things to play with, but for children, this is a huge loss, which is what they love. What I fancy is that in this process, there is an interaction between the child and the parents. No matter what age the child is, he can express his attitude by reading this letter with his parents, and the parents can also have a discussion with the children when reading the letter, so interaction is very precious. "

Chen Lisha believes that to look at this problem from the perspective of children, cigarette cards are not allowed to play, so what should we play for 10 minutes between classes? "In fact, I am also very worried. After I banned the cigarette card, they have a new game. The new game will definitely have some negative things. I can’t ban it again next time when parents question it. The school education will become like a whack-a-mole. We still have to look at these things that children love with children’s eyes. "

In response to this discussion, the school also launched a debate contest, from smoking cards to what else can we play during recess? On Children’s Day this year, a flea market will be held to stimulate children’s imagination.

Chen Lisha said: "I promised all the children that smoking cards are forbidden on campus, but President Chen encouraged everyone to make innovations in games. On Children’s Day, we will make a flea market for games, that is, everyone can declare your own innovative games, and we will judge which games are played by more people, attracted more people and praised more people. Therefore, now the children on our campus will innovate and do various explorations. "

Shi Yu, a psychologist, believes that for the "smoke card" game, one thing really deserves parents’ vigilance, and that is the "familiarity effect". When children are used to cigarette boxes during the game, it will indeed increase their curiosity and cognition of cigarettes in the future, which requires timely guidance from parents. "Familiarity effect, that is, when children often see something, even if he watches wrapping paper advertisements, or people often talk about these things, or there are these things in film and television works, he will have more desire to buy when he faces these things. If you play the cigarette card, there is indeed a desire and impulse that they may be more curious about cigarettes, or that I want cigarettes more. In addition, the way children get cigarette shells, like some children even turn over trash cans, so I think this form is good, but there are certain hidden dangers. "

Shi Yu told reporters that when children are young, a lot of knowledge is acquired through games, not only classroom education, but also the interaction between peers in games, which is also essential for children’s growth. "There is nothing absolutely safe, so parents should educate our children. What can they learn from the game? For example, we must abide by the rules. Secondly, we believe that there is a relationship between competition and cooperation, because if opponents want to win each other’s competition, there are some promotional functions of interpersonal communication. " Shi Yu said.