ADHD and Video Games: How to Get Your Child to Turn Them Off
It's hard to get any child to transition away from their favorite video game to do homework, get ready for bed—or even to go outside and get some fresh air.
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The nature of ADHD makes the relationship with video games a little bit more complicated. So it is harder for a child with ADHD to transition from a game to off a game. It's harder to get a child with ADHD off the video game to go to sleep. So, the way that has to be handled is, you know, if I have a child that's being allowed to play a video game in the evening before they go to sleep, and I know they have ADHD, I will work with the family to say that we really have to have a lot of reminders. And the other piece of managing kids and video games is understanding the game. The more parents understand the game, the more they can work with their kids. To give you an example of this, one of the hottest games is Clash Royale, it's this Pokémon card kind of game. And each of the bat...
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The nature of ADHD makes the relationship with video games a little bit more complicated. So it is harder for a child with ADHD to transition from a game to off a game. It's harder to get a child with ADHD off the video game to go to sleep. So, the way that has to be handled is, you know, if I have a child that's being allowed to play a video game in the evening before they go to sleep, and I know they have ADHD, I will work with the family to say that we really have to have a lot of reminders. And the other piece of managing kids and video games is understanding the game. The more parents understand the game, the more they can work with their kids. To give you an example of this, one of the hottest games is Clash Royale, it's this Pokémon card kind of game. And each of the bat...
