Meeting Reflection

Meeting Reflection

On Sunday 14^th 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.