Rachel Kowert

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 068: Video Games and Your Child's Physical, Social, and Psychological Well-Being · 1 Aug 2017 podcast

It's about this is their social time.

This is the time they are connecting with other people.

And so it's it's not quite the same as let's put your book down and go eat dinner, you know.

So it can be they have a lot more of a pull in these games and they're more invested.

They're emotionally invested.

They're socially invested.

Their time is invested.

So in that sense it's slightly different from other activities.

And I think that's part of what contributes to it being so difficult and the kids being so connected to being engaged in these spaces.

Yeah, I mean, the best advice I can give is treating it as any other kind of activity that they would be very invested in.

So for instance, if I was playing, you know, basketball in my driveway with my neighborhood friends and my parents would come out and be like, All right, you know, thirty minutes and then we gotta go.

I mean, I think I would equally scoff at the idea of coming inside in thirty minutes I'm having fun with my friends, you know.

So I think it's just about setting limits, making sure that children know, you know, okay, it's six o'clock, we're gonna have to eat dinner, or, you know, oh, thirty minutes and we have to, you know, get off.

And it's still gonna probably be a struggle, but at least they're mindful of the limits that are being set so they can sort of mentally prepare like, okay, in thirty minutes my mom's gonna come back in here and yell at me.

I better, you know, wrap things up and try to get off.

Yeah, it's difficult now because it's not formally a diagnosis by the APA.

So there are not too many resources out there.

Um the advice I would give parents is go seek a mental health professional, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, maybe someone who specializes in behavioral addictions, which at this point is gonna be gambling.

That's the only one, as I mentioned, formally recognized.

And that will set you on the right path in terms of what steps should I take to try and treat this and try and address this, which is usually some form of cognitive behavioral therapy.

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