What to do if your child tells you he/she wants to be a gamer, youtuber or streamer

How to educate young people who want to go into gaming or online content creation?

Once upon a time, there were parents who flatly forbade their child to play video games.. Mark was a competitive young man who excelled in various sports and competitions. He won so much that, for winning, he even won a sweepstakes in which nothing more and nothing less than... A video game console!

He grew up and became emancipated, started playing and working for a video game company. Of course, Mark Merril's destiny might seem to be doomed to addiction, but nothing could be further from the truth: he decided to become an entrepreneur and ended up creating what is, to this day, one of the most popular video game companies in the world. ended up creating what is, to date, the most played and competed video game in the world: League of Legends..

Valuing the risks and opportunities for success

This fable based on real events serves to frame three points.

The first is that total coercion in the use of video games may well be counterproductive. can be counterproductive..

The second is that where there is greater use of video games there is always going to be more likely to be more problems, but nothing bad is necessarily going to happen. necessarily.

And the third is that in the 2000s, when Mark Merril began his period of greater involvement with video games, there was no awareness of a successful path with video games; today there is, and moreover, we can channel that motivation into a professional career related to gaming..

The real path if your child who wants to be a gamer, youtuber or streamer: the progressive path

You can't understand the competitive path in video games without reaching out to the general public. As we can see in the graph, most of the benefits of e-sports come from sponsorship or sponsorship invested by certain brands as advertising.

Thus, the creation of content that leads to reaching an audience is above and beyond competitive performance in video games, and creating content involves the need to dive into and learn about the following specific skills:

• Social media management.
• Marketing.
• Market research.
• Graphic design.
• Video editing.
• Technical knowledge of audiovisual and computer infrastructure.
• Communication skills.

These realistic expectations serve to frame the starting point of the progressive path. To put it all down to practice: if we let our youngster play video games for 10 hours a week, he will have to sacrifice the time he spends on those games, he will have to sacrifice the time of those 10 hours to start his personal brand in the world of gaming and content creation..

Accompanying your learning

That he is able to sacrifice play time to raise his personal best is a very good symptom of real motivation. Now, here as parents, we have to put the batteries to really check that our child is taking it seriously, and for this, we have the responsibility to accompany him in this process, especially if he starts as a minor.

To this end, we must take this opportunity to learn together with our children a little bit of each of the a little bit of each of the previously identified sectors, as well as specific knowledge of their gaming field or content creation topic.

Once this first step is achieved in a healthy way, we can agree (even by written contract) that if of those 10 hours a week of gaming, 5 are still invested in their personal brand (and growth or positive feedback is seen) and 5 in gaming, we will be able to value to extend, very gradually, this time of implicationand always subject to school obligations and social, mental and physical health.

The result of this well-directed path is a brutal learning in all aspects; a process that confronts our children with the necessary effort to "make a niche for yourself" and the reality of the market (a market where competitiveness is extremely high since it is something accessible today for almost everyone). What do you bring different and of value?

From Gamewell we have educational courses for parents and gamers The information is done in a pleasant and dynamic way; and if you still need help to manage this world in a healthy way, you can contact a professional. Neither castration nor debauchery, healthy and responsible use. And in fact, healthy use will lead us to persevere more and perform better.