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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another hard part is my husband doesn't see what the big deal is since he played unlimited video games as a kid and now as an adult doesn't play at all (one of my criteria when dating was no gamers!)[/quote]

My oldest is a year younger than yours, but the neighbor kid plays video games. Unfortunately, my DH plays desktop video games and the kids know it. He has an Xbox, but doesn’t play it while they’re awake. My oldest is in the pipeline for testing for ADHD. Knowing that he’s at risk for addiction, we’ve gone low screens. Ten minutes of screen time before school, and thirty minutes while I cook dinner. Any video game time has to come out of that preexisting screen time. We let them play apps on “the family iPad,” and are careful to point out that it doesn’t belong to them, we have control over it, we are kindly loading it to them, etc. I know the oldest gets more screen time at school. I refuse any game or so that I’m not 100% comfortable with.

I don’t know if any of this helps. [/quote]

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