
124- Screen Time Limits & Transitions: Making Sure Homework Gets Done Before Minecraft
ADHD Experts Podcast
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How to Help Your Kids Transition From Games to Homework
Wii games have been demonstrated to enhance executive functions and increase brain-derived neurotrophic factors. BDNF increases the capacity to pay attention, to learn, and it sort of primes the brain to be able to do homework. Sandbox games like Minecraft are particularly difficult for kids with learning disabilities because there's no real beginning or an end. If you can stoddlerly develop reasonable rules and limits in advance so the kid knows what the limits are.
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