Parents' Guide to Video Game Addiction with Cam Adair
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This is a hugely important episode. Video games are part of almost every kids life, but there is a difference between playing for fun and using them to replace real life. Games like Minecraft and Fortnite have become part of our popular culture and make up a large part of kids' social lives.
According to the World Health Organization, video game addiction is now an official mental health condition. It changes a child's brain chemistry and can lead to depression and isolation.
In this episode, TEDx speaker Cam Adair talks about his experience with gaming disorder. He also talks about why video games are so addictive, how to recognize the signs of video game addiction in our kids, and how parents can set healthy boundaries for gaming.
For the show notes, links, and resources mentioned in this episode go to gooddadproject.com/179.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:15.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? There are 2.6 billion gamers in the world right now. |
| 0:29.0 | There are 2.6 billion gamers in the world right now. |
| 0:35.8 | There are also 60 million gaming addicts in the world right now. |
| 0:46.1 | So guys, if you are having issues with your kids playing Fort Knight or Destiny or Hit Man or all these other games, |
| 0:53.6 | listen up, stop what you're doing, |
| 0:56.2 | listen to this show because I have |
| 0:58.8 | the world's expert on gaming addiction today and his name is Cam a deer. This show is packed with so many |
| 1:07.7 | facts, so much knowledge, it's insane. Let me tell you guys something right now. |
| 1:14.0 | We are dealing with an epidemic and we have no idea |
| 1:20.0 | how bad this epidemic is going to be, how bad it's actually gotten, and what the ramifications are going to be 10, 15, 20 years from now. |
| 1:30.0 | Some of the statistics that I have for you guys today are going to blow your mind. |
| 1:36.0 | Now, I'm not trying to be the bad guy and I'm not trying to say, hey, no gaming, no nothing, but at the same time we have got to create some serious boundaries |
| 1:47.8 | when it comes to how much time our kids spend on iPads how much time they spend on, how much time they spend on PlayStation, how much time they spend on |
| 1:55.2 | Xbox, all these are the games because we are dealing with something that is literally rewiring the brain of your kid and I am talking to a degree that it's almost |
| 2:08.9 | irreversible. I mean there's even a point where we have to detoxify and there are withdrawal |
| 2:15.9 | symptoms and all kinds of other things but check this out. For men in their |
| 2:22.2 | mid to late 20s, 75% of the time they used to spend working is now spent on gaming. That is an actual statistics. 13% of 7th to 12th graders report problems that |
| 2:38.6 | are associated with too much gaming like depression and anxiety. |
| 2:42.5 | 13%. |
| 2:44.8 | It may not seem like a lot, but when you have 2.6 billion |
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