A lot of parents are ready to throw out their hands about video games.

I think you see one or two things. Parents either around the video game

conversation they're like, okay we're done. I'm fed up every video game is going

in the trash like I've heard stories of parents running over video game consoles

of the lawnmower.

But there's another temptation to just be like, well, fine.

You want to play video games?

Play them all you want.

It doesn't work.

Kids don't know how to self-regulate,

and that just makes the problem worse.

So they need you to lovingly step in. relationships that matter most. I'm Shelby Abbott. Your hosts are

David Ann Wilson. You can find us at family life today.com. This is family life

today. All right, you know my favorite moment of Thanksgiving last year? You have no idea. No idea.

It's in the kitchen. You watched it. I watched it? Yeah, so our oldest

son, CJ, came over with his wife Robin, and he brought Oculus. He owns it. And if you're listening, don't know what that is, it's VR. It's virtual reality. You put it on. And I literally was playing Detroit

Lions versus the Kansas City Chiefs at Ford Field.

And I'd never done this, you know, with this technology.

Do you remember?

I mean, I put it on, and you're standing on the sideline in Ford Field, which I did every Sunday for 30 years.

And it was actually like it was, I mean, I turn, you know, you turn and look, there's the crowd behind you you look at the

scoreboard I played quarterback and threw a couple touchdowns but anyway wait wait wait

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