How to Raise a Healthy Gamer: End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids

A former gamer and Harvard-trained psychiatrist provides a confirmed, examined plan to assist dad and mom outline, set, and reinforce wholesome boundaries round video video games and assist children who’ve developed an dependancy to gaming.

How a lot ought to I allow them to play? How do I get them to be curious about the rest?!

On the subject of household guidelines round video video games, most dad and mom are at a loss. In spite of everything, our technologically invasive world is one thing earlier generations didn’t need to wrestle with, so we’ve no mannequin for how one can information our households by way of the quickly altering panorama, no blueprint for setting wholesome gaming boundaries and conserving them in place.

A former Harvard Medical Faculty teacher and one of many foremost consultants on online game psychology, Dr. Alok Kanojia—often called “Dr. Ok” to his thousands and thousands of followers—has firsthand data of this contemporary challenge: He wanted skilled assist to interrupt his personal gaming habits in school, an expertise that fueled his curiosity in studying how one can assist others. Drawing on Dr. Ok’s skilled specialization in working with folks of all ages and ranging levels of dependancy, and the latest analysis from neuroscience and psychology, The right way to Elevate a Wholesome Gamer teaches dad and mom a brand new ability set for negotiating gaming tradition and provides options rooted within the science of treating dependancy, together with:

An eight-week, step-by-step highway map for setting, imposing, and troubleshooting wholesome gaming boundaries.

Recommendation on how one can react when your little one turns into irritable, impolite, or seemingly directionless.

Important communication methods for reaching children who’ve developed a critical gaming drawback.

The neuroscientific and psychological causes that kids gravitate to video video games and how one can assist them meet these wants in actual life.

Insights and recommendation on coping with behavioral points that always accompany sport use: ADHD, spectrum issues, and substance abuse.

Whether or not your objective is to arrange your little one for a wholesome relationship to expertise or to curb unhealthy quantities of time spent gaming, The right way to Elevate a Wholesome Gamer will provide help to higher perceive, talk with, and—finally—empower your gaming fanatic to stay their finest life.

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