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Obsession with video games has risen to the level of addiction worthy of possible listing as a psychological disorder, according to psychotherapists Cash and McDaniel. They explore the addictive nature of many games and offer assessment tools for parents to determine if the games are presenting a danger to their children. They examine research on the physiological effects of too much gaming, particularly for younger children, as well as negative effects on academic and social skills. Drawing on vignettes from their own practice, they look at various development stages and how children are affected by excessive video-game playing, from console games to group online games and social networks. Each chapter ends with practical advice for parents on setting limits. The final chapter is aimed at families in need of intervention beyond the book. Whether parents think games represent as extreme a danger as do Cash and McDaniel, who cite action taken by the Chinese and Korean governments to curb gaming, they will appreciate the information, including a glossary of computer-game terminology. --Vanessa Bush
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Moderation is key to all things, including video games. "Video Games & Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control" is a parent's guide to the world of video games for children for their parents. Discussing age appropriateness, how much a parent should allow their children to play video games in general, it also discusses problems children may have already, like existing addictions to online games. "Video Games & Your Kids" is a solid choice for parents of young gamers. --James A. Cox Editor-in-Chief The Midwest Book Review<br /><br />Obsession with video games has risen to the level of addiction worthy of possible listing as a psychological disorder, according to psychotherapists Cash and McDaniel. They explore the addictive nature of many games and offer assessment tools for parents to determine if the games are presenting a danger to their children. They examine research on the physiological effects of too much gaming, particularly for younger children, as well as negative effects on academic and social skills. Drawing on vignettes from their own practice, they look at various development stages and how children are affected by excessive video-game playing, from console games to group online games and social networks. Each chapter ends with practical advice for parents on setting limits. The final chapter is aimed at families in need of intervention beyond the book. Whether parents think games represent as extreme a danger as do Cash and McDaniel, who cite action taken by the Chinese and Korean governments to curb gaming, they will appreciate the information, including a glossary of computer-game terminology. --Vanessa Bush - BOOKLIST
Moderation is key to all things, including video games. "Video Games & Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control" is a parent's guide to the world of video games for children for their parents. Discussing age appropriateness, how much a parent should allow their children to play video games in general, it also discusses problems children may have already, like existing addictions to online games. "Video Games & Your Kids" is a solid choice for parents of young gamers. --James A. Cox Editor-in-Chief The Midwest Book Review
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- Paperback: 191 pages
- Publisher: Issues Press; 1st edition (June 30, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1930461054
- ISBN-13: 978-1930461055
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I strongly believe that video game addiction is currently one of the biggest threats in America today. It affects people of all ages. Nobody is too young to become hooked to games. And nobody, when heavily engaged in playing games or surfing the internet, is powerful enough to overcome the addiction. Video Games & Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control is a great book that stays relevant and to the point. I am particularly surprised in several details from the book. One is that research has proven that video games do worsen gamer's intelligence. Two is that kids learning from educational programs tend to learn less words than they would from print. Three is that just because one becomes pretty good in skills in games doesn't translate well in reality, which makes total sense to me. There have been claims that video games do make kids smarter, but I strongly disagree with that. Playing video games as well as being on internet does not use as much of brain muscles as it would be used in simple math computations. Rather, the brain is more stagnated. One obvious reason to it is that a huge number of games is extremely repetitive. Anyone who played Nintendo games will tell you that these games are almost never random; it's always in patterns, and memories will have to be formed. Thus, playing a level has to be done over and over and over until it's perfectly mastered to reach new levels. But is it constructive in a positive way? An experienced gamer myself, I have to say no. I come from the Atari age of early 80's and have been a major part of the NES generation, and I can pretty much say, with certainty, that NES wasn't that addicting back then. Large part of this has to do with how challenging these games were. So, it became pretty easy to be tuned out from it.
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