Protecting Your Family from Gaming Addiction with Cam Adair
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
We are just beginning to understand the impact of video games on child development and behavior. Never has our culture been so immersed in gamification. Games like Minecraft and Fortnite have become part of social culture.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has documented that violent videos games cause children to show a greater propensity to be aggressive in real life. Frequent gaming also results in poor grades and a difficult relationship with parents.
So how can we protect our family from gaming addiction?
Today we are grateful to have Cam Adair from GameQuitters.com back on The Dad Edge. He is a former gaming addict who now helps kids and their parents find solutions for gaming addiction. He tells us how we can set healthy limits and boundaries around video games, and what activities we can implement into our daily lives to make sure our kids are fulfilled and less susceptible to compulsive gaming.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:28.0 | Hey, what's up guys? Hey, what's up guys? |
| 0:29.0 | It's Larry Hagner here with the Dad Edge podcast, formerly the Good Dad Project Podcast. |
| 0:34.7 | I hope you guys are doing well. |
| 0:37.2 | Here we are, man, talking about video games once again, and this is by actually popular demand that I have a return guest. |
| 0:47.2 | This is a huge topic and I guess as parents man we have no idea what we are up against here when it comes to these |
| 0:54.3 | crazy ass video games I don't know about you guys but I grew up on |
| 0:58.8 | asteroids and Donkey Kong and Space Invaders I mean come on, blowing up rocks with the triangle. One button and the stick. That was, that was it. Then Nintendo came out, that was pretty cool. Super Mario Brothers, all that fun stuff. Now we got some crazy video games, crazy |
| 1:16.4 | video games out there. We have Minecraft, we have Call of Duty, we have Destiny, Grand Theft Auto Roadblocks, Call of Duty Black Ops Medal of Honor, |
| 1:30.5 | Mortal Kagan, Mortal Knee, Hit Man, just all kinds of just like crazy, crazy games, right? |
| 1:36.2 | And while these games are fun, and they can be cool, right? |
| 1:41.2 | And they're games like, I mean, even as like an adult kid. |
| 1:44.7 | That's what I like to call myself every now and again. |
| 1:47.0 | Some of these games, man, they just fascinate me. |
| 1:49.2 | Like they reel me in, they suck me in, I want to play. |
| 1:51.9 | I remember being in college, immortal combat came out and I just thought that was like the badest coolest game ever and now it's like even crazier right but here's the thing it's no secret that video games are having a negative impact on today's generation of kids, but I mean do we really know how bad it really is? I mean there's some statistics out there that are just going to shock you |
| 2:15.8 | because they shocked me. One being the average length of time spent playing video games |
| 2:21.6 | was approximately 20 hours per week for a kid for a young |
| 2:26.0 | adolescent. It's crazy. It's also estimated that about 72% of all American households play video games. |
| 2:35.9 | Video game addiction statistics show |
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