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 affords a confirmed, examined plan to assist mother and father outline, set, and reinforce wholesome boundaries round video video games and assist children who’ve developed an dependancy to gaming.

“I extremely suggest this calm, structured, and nurturing strategy to raised and fewer display screen use.”—Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, New York Instances bestselling coauthor of The Entire-Mind Youngster and No-Drama Self-discipline

How a lot ought to I allow them to play? How do I get them to be serious about the rest?!
 
On the subject of household guidelines round video video games, most mother and father are at a loss. In spite of everything, our technologically invasive world is one thing earlier generations didn’t need to wrestle with, so now we have no mannequin for how one can information our households by the quickly altering panorama, no blueprint for setting wholesome gaming boundaries and holding them in place.
 
A former Harvard Medical College teacher and one of many foremost specialists on online game psychology, Dr. Alok Kanojia—often known as “Dr. Okay” to his tens of millions of followers—has firsthand information of this contemporary difficulty: 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. Okay’s skilled specialization in working with folks of all ages and ranging levels of dependancy, and the latest analysis from neuroscience and psychology, Easy methods to Increase a Wholesome Gamer teaches mother and father a brand new ability set for negotiating gaming tradition and affords 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 downside.
• 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 usually accompany sport use: ADHD, spectrum issues, and substance abuse.
 
Whether or not your purpose is to organize your little one for a wholesome relationship to expertise or to curb unhealthy quantities of time spent gaming, Easy methods to Increase a Wholesome Gamer will aid you higher perceive, talk with, and—finally—empower your gaming fanatic to reside their finest life.

From the Writer

Writer ‏ : ‎ Rodale Books (March 12, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593582047
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593582046
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.4 x 1.08 x 9.43 inches