How to Raise a Healthy Gamer with Dr. Alok Kanojia

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Is my child addicted to video games? How do I know? What is a healthy amount of video game playing? Today Dawn visits with Dr. Alok Kanojia, also known as Dr. K, to discuss practical steps for preventing video game addiction. Dr. K, a former gaming addict and Harvard-trained psychiatrist, shares insights from his book "How to Raise a Healthy Gamer" on how to identify and manage gaming addiction in children. How to Raise a Healthy Gamer Book: https://amzn.to/3x3zJdP IN THIS EPISODE 00:00 Welcome Dr. Alok Kanojia 01:13 Can we REALLY raise a "healthy" gamer? 03:58 What about gaming addiction? 04:59 How have video games changed over time? 10:00 Sense of virtual identity 13:46 Are there actually benefits to playing video games? 15:47 Practical steps to getting video games under control 16:50 Get on the same team 22:09 25% rule 24:52 Can kids learn to manage video games on their own? 26:20 Ideal age to start playing 31:06 What if my spouse is the addicted gamer? 33:15 Do first person shooter games desensitize kids to real life? 36:04 Is there hope if I feel like I've ruined my child? MORE ABOUT DR. K: Follow Dr.K's podcast HealthyGamerGG https://open.spotify.com/show/6VaJwyS2KXxiXqR77jqzmP Healthy Gamer Website https://www.healthygamer.gg/ - Instagram: @healthygamergg - X: @dralokkanojia - YouTube: @HealthyGamerGG - TikTok: @healthygamer.gg ABOUT THE MINIMAL MOM: Hi, I'm Dawn, if we haven't met before, I'm married to Tom and we have four kids ages 8-13. We live outside of the Twin Cities in MN and have called ourselves minimalists for 8 years now. We got rid of 85% of our stuff and don't miss ANY OF IT! If you'd like to see more instructional videos about minimalism and decluttering, be sure to check out my YouTube channel!

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0:00.0	I think the real tragedy is we've not regulated based on addictive potential.
0:04.0	We don't worry about the addictive potential.
0:06.0	Parents are not concerned when they look at a video game, what they look for as a gun,
0:10.0	there can be flowers and pots and kitty cats, and your kid can still be addicted to it for 20 hours a day and it can still ruin their life.
0:17.0	And no generation in the history of humanity has ever had to deal with something as invasive and addictive and pervasive as technology.
0:25.9	So this whole generation of parents, this is a very unique challenge that we're all dealing with.
0:30.0	And no one knows how to fix it.
0:31.4	Welcome to the Minimal Mom podcast.
0:33.9	Don reaches a million women each month with practical tips to simplify your home.
0:39.0	Today, Dawn is joined by Dr. Kanagia, a former gaming addict and a Harvard-trained psychiatrist
0:44.5	who has developed evidence-based programs that help tens of thousands of gamers overcome their
0:49.7	addiction and reclaim their attention and time from technologies that consume it.
0:54.3	His new book, How to Raise a Healthy Gamer, will equip parents with the tools to fight back,
0:59.9	an understanding of how technology affects the developing brain and a child's developing psyche,
1:05.4	and more importantly, a toolkit for parents helping a child have a healthy relationship with technology.
1:11.6	Dr. Kay, I have to say when I saw your book, How to Raise a Healthy Gamer,
1:15.6	one of the first thoughts that came to my mind is,
1:17.6	oh, can we put these two words together, healthy and gamer?
1:21.6	Because I know for many of us, our personal experience and then that with raising kids at our house these days,
1:26.6	is that there
1:28.0	is conflict, there is tension, there are screen time battles, and we don't always like the impact
1:33.7	that we're seeing these games have on our kids. And so I'm really looking forward to having this
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