Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside

you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

This is a special bonus episode with this week's guest, counselor, speaker, author, David

Thomas.

In this little short snippet, I mean, he and I just kept talking and that's why we decided

to make this a bonus episode.

He's going to share some thoughts on screen time, something that I know in our home of

boys can often become a cause of conflict between myself and them.

And so David has some helpful tips and advice and encouragement for us moms.

Let's get right to it.

Here we go.

Okay.

Help us, moms out because I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate video games, but they love

them.

And I've noticed two of our boys that are constantly fighting actually bond over video games and

have some a common conversation that I find them going to and it's actually positive,

like laughing emotions, like happy emotions and and then again in the pandemic, it was

like the social connection point that they had for months at a time was playing with friends

on video games, but I know it is not healthy for them to be on all the time.

So reduce that limits, but I feel like even the limits are extending.

So help like in your experience, if I could say, Hey, I talked to this counselor and he

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