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

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

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The article discusses the challenges of managing screen time and video game habits for children, and offers advice from Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Alok Kanojia, who has experience with gaming addiction and neuroscientific expertise. The book "How to Raise a Healthy Gamer" provides an eight-week, step-by-step program for parents to help establish healthy boundaries around screens and video games, covering communication strategies, dealing with behavioral issues, and parenting neurodiverse children. The goal is to empower parents with knowledge and practical advice to build healthy gaming habits that will equip children for a fulfilling future.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 14 March 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan


Are you concerned about your child spending excessive time playing video games? Or are you struggling to help them develop healthy tech habits? Are games causing conflicts and arguments within your family? Regardless of the reason that brought you here, I am here to assist you.

How much should you allow your children to play video games? How can you encourage them to explore other interests and activities?

Video games and managing screen time have become a modern parenting challenge with no clear-cut guidelines and a constantly evolving landscape. Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former gaming addict, Dr. Alok Kanojia, known as Dr. K to his millions of followers, offers a comprehensive and proven plan to help parents establish, set, and reinforce healthy boundaries around screens and video games.

From communication strategies and advice on dealing with behavioral issues to the neurological reasons behind why tech can be so addictive, "How to Raise a Healthy Gamer" is an essential resource for parents of children of all ages. Based on Dr. K's personal experience with gaming addiction and his extensive neuroscientific and psychiatric expertise, this eight-week, step-by-step program provides valuable insights on how to respond when your child becomes irritable, rude, or seemingly directionless around screens. Specific advice is also offered for parenting neurodiverse children, including those with ADHD and autism.

Written with the intention of empowering parents with knowledge and practical advice, this guide from the foremost expert on video game psychology offers valuable skills, provides hope, and sets out a clear roadmap to building healthy gaming habits that will equip your child for a fulfilling future.

Weight: 504g
Dimension: 241 x 160 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035025886

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