Video Games and Your Kids: A Review

A review of Video Games & Your Kids - How Parents Stay in Control by Hilarie Cash, PhD and Kim McDaniel, MA Like many parents, I'm concerned about my kids not spending too much time in front of a screen. Whether that screen is television, computer, or video games matters little. One reason for this is because I have seen how screen time interferes with other, more important activities. Activities like reading, spending time with family, helping around the house, even daydreaming. It seems that boys in particular have a hard time accepting limits around video gaming and computer time. Since I have two sons, I didn't want any part of the constant fighting over the video game system between themselves and refusing to accept

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