This episode contains explicit language.

Welcome to Mom and Dad are fighting Slate's parenting podcast for Monday, March 27th,

the video game educator edition.

I'm Jamila Lemue, a writer and contributor to Slate's care and feeding parents in column.

I'm Mom Tanayima, who is about 10, and we live in Los Angeles.

I'm Zach Rosen. I host another show. It's called The Best Advice Show, and I'm Dad Tanowa,

who is five and a half, and I'm a who's two and a half. We live in Detroit.

I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose,

and the mom of three little, Henry, who's 10, Oliver, who's eight, and Teddy, who's six.

We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Today, we're diving into the exciting world of video games. We have a special guest joining us,

Ash Branden, known as At Gamer Educator on Instagram. Ash is an expert in gaming friends and has

plenty of recommendations to share with us. We'll be answering some of your questions, exploring

the latest gaming trends, and talking about the benefits of gaming. And yes, there are benefits.

So that'll be up first, and after our discussion with Ash, we're going to dull out some recommendations,

and then we're going to wrap up the show by digging into our mailbag. See you back here in a second.

This episode is brought to you by KiwiCo. I have a very distinct memory from when I was seven

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