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The Gamer Dad's Guide to Healthy Screen Time
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The Gamer Dad's Guide to Healthy Screen Time

As a Gamer Dad that plays games with his son since age of 5... there is one thing that has increasingly bothered me about the usual screen-time conversations... How often everything gets reduced to:
“How many hours should my kid be allowed per day?”

So... to properly tackle the question, l joined hands with Cristina Iancu (psychologist and psychotherapist with 16 years of experience with children and families), resulting in the below article & guide, which is more of a Gamer Dad perspective, but also vetted by a professional. 😁

Check it out here: https://ropname.substack.com/p/the-gamer-dads-guide-to-healthy-screen

We talk about parental involvement, playing together, talking together, balance, creativity, age-appropriate progression, social media, AI, and the relationship between the child, parents and screen.
But, most importantly, we talk about something I’ve experienced myself, and from which I learned a lot.

I hope you find it as useful as me, even guides you on your parenting path, for the betterment of all our young ones.
PS. As always, personally recorded narration by me and Cristina is available, if you prefer to listen.

u/ropname — 1 day ago

Dad watching Horror shows

My whole life my dad always watched first 48, South Park sometimes. I didn’t mind the stuff when I was younger but now it’s just so creepy to me. I absolutely hate the shit. Like why does anyone like murder shows that talk about murder and rape in that creepy dialogue behind the elevator music. He’s an old man now and I’m 26. I have my own house and he comes over, I go to sleep he’s watching first 48, I wake up and it’s first 48. Now it’s late at night and I told him like man if you’re in my house you’re going to have to turn that shit off like seriously. I’m tired of hearing about girls getting raped, people getting buried, people getting beat to death. Like who wants to hear that shit? Does anybody blaming me? And he gets all mad at me like oh I can’t watch what I want, like no dude you can watch WHATEVER you want JUST not THAT SHIT please. Like I even say please. I try to reason with him, I tell him that shit just makes me so uncomfortable. It causes me anxiety. I already feel like people want to kill me. I think it causes anxiety. Like hella fucking anxiety you know? I watch cop videos, They might have some fatalities but it’s mostly like car crashes, crazy boyfriend stuff. But it’s like code blue cam where it’s a body cam. I want to ask myself if my videos are the same as his but because he’s older he was watching the first 48 and obviously not Midwest crime on YouTube, but still. It’s still creepy to me and I think most people would agree.

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u/Fortnite-player12345 — 2 days ago