When your son is learning to handle the pressures of the teen years, you want to help

him develop good habits.

And a common question that many of us ask is, should I let my son play video games and if so when and for how long and

well we're gonna address that very thing today on this episode I'm John Fuller

in the studio with Dr Danny Werta he leads our parenting department.

And let's go ahead and return to a conversation

we had with Jonathan McKee.

He sat down with Jim Daly and meet to discuss video games.

Video games, you mentioned that and how you use it to teach your boys about learning

from others mistakes you got to tell me how to do this one well yeah no no I mean

obviously I mean this is one of the huge subject is we're talking about the four battles these

four distractions in young people's life probably the biggest complaint I

hear from parents at my parent workshops is how do I get my son to stop playing Fortnight you know where

Apex Legends or whatever the game is at the time you know all night long I cannot

pry them from that and you guys have sons you probably can relate to this I mean

will be the golden answer everybody's waiting for just one more minute dad yeah

yeah exactly one more one more day dad and it's just it's one of. And so yeah, I used a video game example of talking, but something that all young men understand and it's the fact that's very often will go through like, you know, if you're playing a video game and you go through a room and all of a sudden you go through a door and you get demolished by a bunch of bad guys, right?

And it happens, well, immediately the cool thing is if on a video game, if you die, it just says you're dead and it puts you back to that next that

last starting point you know where you were and you just get to have this nice little

do-over you know if only life were that simple right and the thing is I've never seen a young man go, hey, let me go do that same stupid mistake. Again, they learn from that mistake. They're better equipped to walk through that door or avoid that door altogether.

And it's one of those things where we can learn, we can see.

And here's the other crazy thing.

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