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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure video games are a waste of time. They may not be your thing but it's a legit hobby for people to enjoy. My ADHD 12 yr old DD is a gamer. The video games give her the hit of dopamine that her brain craves. She spends hours playing and socializing through games on the weekends when she's not engaged in other commitments. During the week she gets 1-2 hours a day if all her work is done. It's her only way to socialize. She can't go anywhere. We don't live near kids her age. All the neighbors are little kids.

But she is also a straight-A AAP student, she's also a black belt in taekwondo, prior to covid she also did travel soccer, she's also an avid cooker, and she is a rule follower who gets her chores done. So long as she gets things done, gets outside, gets exercise, and makes good grades we don't limit her games. Gaming is her life. My DD also takes about nothing but gaming and has lost friends who aren't quite into it but she's also gained new friends who are. Also, as a result of her obsession, do you know what we did? We enrolled her in python classes and now she codes too and builds games. She has recently decided she wants to major in computer science. She used to want to be an architect so who knows if she will revert back. She searches for coding classes and books and is constantly begging us to enroll her in classes or buy the books. I think it's fine to develop new passions, even if it means you lose commonality with some people along the way. [/quote]

^ PP here, my DD has also made money off of some of the games she has developed and won some game development competitions so it's not all terrible. We make her put the money towards her coding classes.

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