Kids & Gaming. How Much Is Too Much? Podcast # 22

Kids playing video games is so new thing. Even I, who, according to my kids is a dinosaur who knows nothing - used to play Pacman and space invaders. So why are parents becoming more and more anxious and stressed out over the fact that their kids are spending more time on the screen and less time interacting with the people around them?   I am a parent of two kids. My son is almost nineteen (when do we stop calling them kids?!) going on ten, and my daughter is fifteen going on twenty-three. I homeschooled my kids for the past nine years. Our homeschooling schedule had written into it that Friday was a no lesson day, which meant that on this day my kids got to stay at home with their grandma while I met up with friends for some 'me' time. Every Friday morning, when my kids were nine and twelve, I would meet up with two friends, both of whom had boys of a similar age to mine. And every week, without fail, we would all sit and cry to each other about the same thing. The amount of time our kids were spending playing video games.