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[quote=Anonymous]Parents who are successfully limiting screens during covid tell me your ways. Or just tell me to chill.

My 13 year old will play the xbox for hours straight if we allow it and with covid slowly taking everything away there are plenty of days when we allow it. He's built all the forts, baked all the cookies, hiked all the trails and watched all the family movies. There's nothing more fun to him than video games.I'm worried now that the habit of video games will be a habit for life because I've seen so many comments about getting a handle on video games while they are young because it's impossible to do when they are older teens. It could be my own problem but I cringe at how much time is being wasted when it could be used learning a useful skill or something.

I understand that I can just turn the computer off to limit video games and let him be bored so that he finds other things to do.

My question though is when he asks why he can't play video games, what do I say to make him understand.  The games really aren't having any negative effect on our house so I can understand why he doesn't see a problem. But what evidence can I give to help him make the connection that so much time in front of a screen isn't good? I'm pretty sure everything I say "it's not good to do too much of one thing," "you want to be a well rounded person" just sounds like the Charlie Brown teacher. Do you just take a hard line and that's it? Or am I overreacting?[/quote]

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