Video Games & Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control

Video Games & Your Kids is for parents who are worried that their children may be spending too much time playing video games. Based on research and the authors' clinical experience, the book explains what gaming addiction is, how much gaming is too much, and the affects gaming has on the body and brain. The authors give gaming advice on each stage of life; birth-2 years, ages 2-6, elementary school years, adolescence, and adult children still living at home. Where there is a problem, the authors provide parents with tools that will help the them successfully set appropriate limits for their children.

Author Hilarie Cash, PhD, LMHC, has specialized in computer addiction and video game addiction since 1996. She is the co-founder of Internet/Computer Addiction Services, and has spearheaded the creation of the Gaming and Internet Treatment Program. She is a speaker, teacher, and author who has appeared on ABC News, CNN, NPR, PBS, the BBC, and in print in the Seattle Times, USA Today, US News and World Report, and the New York Times. Co-author Kim McDaniel, MA, LMHC is a parent of two teenagers and family counselor who has been working with children and teens for the past 15 years. As a parent educator, Kim has been featured in recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and Seattle Times