Is Your Kid a Gamer? 5 Things Not to Do: Drew Dixon
FamilyLife Today®
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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Navigating the video game world as a parent can be confusing. Expert Drew Dixon starts with five clear ideas of classic parenting mistakes around gaming.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't be ignorant about what your kids are up to. |
| 0:03.0 | Don't be ignorant about the world of video games. |
| 0:05.0 | Don't be ignorant about anything that they're spending time on. |
| 0:08.0 | Get online. |
| 0:09.0 | Watch some videos on YouTube or Twitch of people playing |
| 0:12.0 | whatever game it is your kids want to play |
| 0:13.6 | before you let them play it. Learn how to set up parental controls, but don't |
| 0:18.2 | assume that just because you put some parental controls on their devices that everything's fine. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 0:39.0 | You can find us at FamilyLife Today. |
| 0:42.0 | This is Family Life Today. This is Family Life Today. |
| 0:45.0 | You excited about today? |
| 0:50.0 | You excited about today? I am excited. We got our Friday 5 show where we get five things, five issues, whatever, but we've got Drew Dixon back and he's our resident video game expert. |
| 1:05.0 | Nerd, yeah sure. |
| 1:05.9 | Nurd. |
| 1:06.9 | Yeah, you like you're a video game. |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah, come me nerd. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, I mean you wrote the book, |
| 1:10.8 | Know Thy gamer, a parents guide to video games, which is so helpful. We've had a couple days talking about that. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah. And so today's Friday and we do this with some of our guests. You're in a club that's only a certain number of guests you know yeah well you |
| 1:26.3 | shouldn't but anyway so we sort of have you prepared a little bit to come in you |
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