Feeling Powerless with Video Games? 2 Ways to Take Back Control
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Feeling Powerless with Video Games? 2 Ways to Take Back Control
You don’t have to give in or operate from fear. Kirk shares some fascinating insight into your kids’ brains (it will surprise you) that you must understand first. Then he shares very specific strategies to motivate your kids, build their confidence, and take back control of screens. See the special discount Kirk negotiated with Kinjo below.
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| 1:01.3 | So do you ever feel a little bit powerless and even hopeless? |
| 1:05.7 | Like we're swimming against this tide of technology. It feels like the algorithms and the societal pressure and norms |
| 1:11.6 | have rendered us as parents' bystanders. And so summer's coming and now there's a little bit |
| 1:18.5 | of a dread of like, uh-oh, are we going to be fighting literally all day to get our kids off |
| 1:23.0 | of screens and get outside to do something, anything? It's hard. And I don't want you to bury your head and just hope everything turns out okay. |
| 1:31.3 | I don't want you to give in and just let your kids do whatever they want. |
| 1:35.3 | But I also don't want to be reflexively rigid and fearful and needlessly choose power struggles. |
| 1:42.3 | Because look, we're the ultimate decision makers in our home, |
| 1:45.8 | but I want to give you some tools this summer to build connection, to know how to approach |
| 1:51.9 | technology. So this is the first in a series of podcasts I'm going to do on technology. And I want to |
| 1:59.6 | give you a couple specific tools related to video games. I'm going to do on technology. And I want to give you a couple specific tools related |
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