An exhilarating traditional children's physical game which is not played now due to Smartphone technology

There is also this exhilarating game of what we locally call "Harangang-taga" or the "Patintero" which literally means that to obstruct and chop where vigilance and quick maneuvers will determine your team's win or defeat. The game requires drawing a set of lines done on the ground within a rectangular shape and is good enough for the players to be on the safe zone if they would stand face to face with the opposing team between those lines where a member of the opposing team can easily tag them. However, they can easily be tagged if the contender would be able to tag them if they decide to pass the series of horizontal and vertical which is manned by the opposing team. It is really an exciting game because it is full of fun and laughter along the way.

It not a pure fun because of cheating like tagging by not being inside their designated lines of responsibility or refusing to accept being tagged or if frustration would set in leading to confrontations and petty fights. I remember this instance where the rules would include to not touch the neighbor's fortune plant's leaves because it gets torn as the playground for the said game is near to it and the contestants would often inadvertently hold on to the leaves, so if they do so then they would turn into the defendants of the lines and the other team would be the ones that will get the chance to pass the lines. But which ever the teams would do, it is still fun to play it.

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A tagger can only tag when their feet is contacting the line and is one major rule of the game, because otherwise they will be considered as cheating.

These are just some of the games and activities that we played in my time as a youngster. It is of course of lack of ways to have some fun and these games and activities made us more social and physically active and this practiced our sense of obeying rules, getting disciplined, and some of the good traits that in comparison of the negative traits of being isolated which would negatively affect our way of life and thinking if we were like kids of today which I can say are very different compared to my generation.

The health effects for the eyes is one that I am afraid would debilitate the young generations now aside from the other health repercussions of being fat because of being more idle and not playing physically with other Kids of their age. But the die is cast and I guess that we have as parents have the task of controlling our children's activities in that regard so that they would not develop the negative effects of being exposed in using Smartphones which is now a part of their lives to fulfill their need to play and not playing physical games anymore.

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There are two sides of the coin with regards to children's easy access to using Smartphones in general, they can also utilize it for aiding their learning aside from not being bored when there no children around to play with. this boils down to the responsibility of the parents to make a balance to avoid excessive use of such a gadget which can lead to the detrimental effect on the child's personality, physical health, and negatively fashioned traits which they can easily get influenced from in the internet.