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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn't a new thing. My friends and I played games late at night even in the 1990s. Studies show that kids who play a lot of video games are actually better socially/cognitively adapted on average. However, when it starts interfering with school work or sleep then you have a problem. Rather than disciplining screen time for the sake of itself, I discipline based on grades and sleep. You must be in bed by a certain hour so I take all screens at that time. If grades are bad, screens/allowance goes away.[/quote]

+1 I prefer video game to what kids were doing in our neighborhood in the 80s -- climbing out the window and meeting in the woods to drink, etc. I'm grateful my kids' worst vice is a late night game of Smash Bros. :)[/quote]

Very much +1.  When my kid has free time, he's online.  He knows that if he stays up too late, he'll be tired and cranky the next day, so he makes sure he gets what [b]he [/b]considers enough sleep.  But he loves games and is good at them.  He also gets straight As (to be fair, it's 8th grade, not Harvard), plays team sports, and is generally amenable to spending time with family offline.  I'm not going to tell him how to spend his free time -- he's doing what he loves to do.[/quote]

+3 His free time is his free time.  DS gets straight As, plays sports everyday, has hobbies that he does at a high level and goes to bed by 11 during the week.  I am not going to dictate his free time.  My parents tried to dictate my tv watching when I was growing up.  Why?  It was just stupid and I did well enough to go to an Ivy League college.  :P [/quote]

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