Meeting Reflection
On Sunday 14th October,
2012, at ADMC room W104 at 11:20; a meeting was called by Abdulla Ali Al Hosani
(chairman); present at this meeting was Hassan (secretary), Abdul Kareem and
Hamdan (participants).
I started
the meeting in an appropriate manner by, first of all, greeting the
participants in the group and saying good morning everyone. Then I proceeded to
thank them for attending and being on time. Then I went on to introduce the
members in the group underlining their respective roles. Finally, I stated the
subject of the meeting: Video games and one side effect on child, teenagers and
adults and how to prevent it from happening. The problems which were discussed first were behavior: disorder
symptoms. In which Hassan mentioned that the parents should take the teenagers
and kids to see a psychiatrist to talk with their children and show them the
bad effect that will be exposed to them in the future but Mr. Hedley had a
comment that seeing a psychiatrist is a good idea but our society thinks that
anyone who goes and sees a psychiatrist is crazy and because of this it’s
difficult for the children to accept this idea. The second point were bad
effects on study performance. Hamdan said that the parents should keep in touch
with the teachers to know how their kids are doing with study and if they have
bad marks they should reduce their kids playing time from them and encourage
them to study hard and if their study performance gets better they should reward
them by video games but set for them a limit of time of not more than an hour.
Other side effects were social problems; Abdullkareem said that the parents
should take their kids for a trip at the weekends to communicate with
people or another solution will be to join their kids in clubs which arrange trips
and other activities in which they will meet people of their age which will
make them enjoy talking to them.
The last point was the effect of playing violent
games on teenagers. Abdullah admonished the parents and said they should advise
their teenage children that this is just a game and they shouldn’t practice it
in real life or on others .At the end of the meeting Abdulla ended the meeting
and thanked his colleagues for their good solutions and for discussing and wished
them a great day. For a first- time experience I had a lot of benefits as to how
to arrange a meeting and how to put forward the main points. Discussing
problems and finding a solution also gave me self-confidence to start any type
of meeting. 