In this episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, is a conversation with Scott Novis, a 25 year veteran in the video game industry. We discuss how to choose quality video games, how to manage ending video game time, the problems with free games and games connected to the internet, how too much screen time disrupts children’s development, and how to apply lessons learned in video games to the real world!

We talk about:

9:30 Why you should pay for games and get ones that don’t require an internet connection
13:27 Make sure your kids only play with people they know
15:00 Know how games end and when they can pause
18:00 Flick lights to get kids attention when gaming
19:00 Being intentional about social interaction and applying this to gaming
20:00 Why Scott doesn’t like tablets
26:24 What makes a quality game?
27:45 The problems with the Hook Algorithm
34:00 Why we shouldn’t call video games a waste of time
36:51 Applying what kids learn in good video games to the real world
40:00 Brain science behind why screens are disruptive to kids’ development

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