Are video games safe for my kid? W/ Ash Brandin

Mama Knows

Cloud10

Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Ash Brandin, EdS, is a middle school teacher living in Colorado. Since 2016, Ash has spoken across the country about how classrooms and academic spaces can mimic game structures to make learning compelling, motivating, and engaging. Ash believes video games, specifically entertainment games, can help us create better teaching, more engaging learning, and motivated life-long learners. In 2021, Ash pivoted their gaming and educational content onto Instagram. Their account- TheGamerEducator- they help guide families to have a relationship with screens and video games that benefits everyone in a family. In addition to teaching and gaming, Ash loves baking, hiking, and going to car shows with their child. Website: TheGamerEducator.com Instagram: @TheGamerEducator________________________________________________________________Did you love this episode? BUY ME A COFFEE for support!Find me on Instagram@balkanina@mamaknowspodcastFind me on TikTokBalkaninaSubscribe to my NewsletterPrivate Facebook Motherhood-Podcast CommunityMama Knows FBDisclaimer: This podcast does not provide any medical advice, it is for informational purposes only! ______________________________Did you love this episode? BUY ME A COFFEE for support!Find me on Instagram@balkanina@mamaknowspodcastFind me on TikTokBalkaninaSubscribe to my NewsletterPrivate Facebook Motherhood-Podcast CommunityMama Knows FBDisclaimer: This podcast does not provide any medical advice, it is for informational purposes only! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys you're listening to m Knows Podcast with your host
0:13.4	Nina Kavagiola aka Balconina.
0:19.6	Join in weekly as she walks alongside you to navigate topics around motherhood, mental health, self-love, and relationships.
0:27.0	The good, bad, and funny. I recently asked my audience on Instagram about video games and when it was
0:38.0	appropriate to introduce a Nintendo switch and I had such a different variety of answers and that got me really
0:47.8	curious like what is it with video games why is it such a hot topic amongst parents and families? Why is there
0:56.0	such taboo around it? And quite honestly, like I don't know much about video games at all.
1:02.0	I personally don't play video games. I personally don't play video games.
1:04.0	My husband doesn't play video games, but we have video gamers in my direct family and my kids
1:10.7	are exposed. So this is an important topic for me.
1:14.0	I want to know how to navigate it.
1:15.0	And clearly it's a very important topic
1:18.0	to many of my listeners because a lot of people wrote in
1:21.0	wanting to know all the things about video gaming, which is why I'm talking
1:26.8	to Ash today.
1:27.8	They are a video gaming educator on social media. They have a website and they speak on all things
1:36.0	video games and how to normalize them, how to introduce them, how to just live with them and make them part of your family.
1:46.2	Without that nasty stigma that's out there about video games, I'm so excited for this podcast
1:52.0	episode. Let's welcome Ash.
1:53.7	Hi Ash, thank you so much for being here today.
1:59.5	I'm so excited to talk about video games.
2:02.4	I feel like it falls in that like screen time
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