Help Eliminate Your Child's Video Game Addiction

Learn what you can do to ELIMINATEā€”not just manageā€”their video game addiction. Really.

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The Effects of Technology

In recent decades technology has advanced so quickly that socially we have struggled to adjust and game addiction is one result of our being surprised and unprepared.

What Is Addiction?

All electronic devices have some potentially positive usesā€”sometimes lifesaving usesā€”so I am not suggesting that electronic technology itself is a problem.

No, the problems arise when we human beings abuse the use of these devices, as we have learned to abuse so many other good things in the world: food, exercise, education, books, travel, politics, and more.

It should be obvious, then, that we need to be aware of ā€˜whenā€™ we change our use of an electronic device from a asset to an addiction. It might help first to clearly define what an addiction is. Itā€™s not about the number of hours we do a thing. Itā€™s about how that behavior affects our lives.

Addiction is the compulsive use of any substance, person, feeling, or behavior with little or no concern for the potentially negative social, psychological, job, and physical consequences. Perhaps an even shorter definition might help: Addiction is using anything that affects us negatively, and which we canā€™t easily quit.

Do You Have a Child Who is Addicted to Video Games?

Look for the Signs.

Screen hunger

Does your child seem to look at the screen like a starving man would look at food?

Disobey

If their game use is restricted, do they sometimes sneak extra time?

Irritable

If their game use is interrupted by other activities, or by lack of Internet reception, do they become irritable? Like someone withdrawing from a substance?

Isolated

Do they often use their games in a place where they can be alone?

Neglecting responsibilities

Are they neglecting their chores, homework, and other members of the family?

Upset

Do they get upset when they lose a game, especially if itā€™s because someone in the room distracted them?  

Angry

Do you get ā€œattitudeā€ from them when you tell them to turn off the game for whatever reason?

Procrastinate

Do they consistently put off homework and bedtime and other duties to continue their game?

Annoyed

If you require that they put their game away to do something else for you, are they annoyed or enraged?

Takes phone to bed

If you didnā€™t impose restrictions, would they go to bed with their phone?

Doesn't listen

Do you often have to repeat yourself to him or her, because the first time you spoke, they were completely immersed in their game?

Don't hear you

When you call them for dinner, is it like theyā€™re deaf or dead?

Sneaking away

Do they ever sneak away to play games while youā€™re having a family activity, including meals?

Whining

When you interrupt their game, do they often say things like, ā€œJust five more minutes,ā€ or ā€œOh, come onā€?

Disconnected

Do they have significant activities in the real world outside school and homeā€”sports, outdoors?

These are not small questions. Game addiction is becoming epidemicKids are missing school, isolating from everyone, and staying in the same spot for many hours, even days.

A recent large medical study indicated that failure to limit screen time was the most important single factor negatively affecting brain function in children and teens.

Studies have been proven that game addiction affects brain chemistry and nerve connections in almost the same ways that are caused by addiction to drugs or gambling.

Gaming adversely affects their emotional, physical, social, and academic health. As they are gaming, they are failing to learn the skills meant to enrich their young and adult lives.

We have to pay attention to this disorder that has snuck up on us with alarming speed.  

Are you not tired of having your child kidnapped by a screen? Do you want to help your child avoid effects that could negatively impact them for the rest of their lives? I wish I were exaggerating.

There IS a Solutionā€”

How to Help a Child Addicted to Games

I'm here to tell you that there IS a solution, and weā€™re not talking about controlling or minimizing the addiction. That's not nearly enough. Weā€™re talking about eliminating it.

Weā€™re talking about a real transformation where your child becomes truly happy, fulfilled, responsible, and, well, a human being again.

Welcome to the answers you've been hoping for.

For a long time now, youā€™ve been looking for ways to help your child. I greatly admire what youā€™re doing right now. Youā€™re looking for answers, youā€™re trying to love and help your child, which is way more than most parents do.

And finally, youā€™re in the right place.

Desperately Looking for Help for Your Child's Game Addiction

Itā€™s like youā€™ve been paddling around in the middle of the ocean, desperately looking for help, and nowā€”almost unbelievablyā€”itā€™s here. This is the ship youā€™ve been looking for.

How could I possibly make such an extravagant promise? Because I KNOW how to teach parents how to help their children deal with the life-altering distractions of video gamesā€”which are EVERYWHERE. What I teach has been used by uncounted THOUSANDS of parents, and it works CONSISTENTLY.

Iā€™m not trying to sell you something here that weā€™re GOING to do. You donā€™t have to wait. The training begins right now. In the next few seconds, Iā€™ll be teaching you things about your children and yourselves that youā€™ve never known.

I repeat: Iā€™m not here to tell you ABOUT what Iā€™m offering you. Iā€™m beginning now to GIVE you what you need. Itā€™s my gift to you.

What a relief to know that right now youā€™re exactly where youā€™ve wanted to be. You can learn what you need to learn. Finally, you can feel encouraged. You can feel hope. You can help your child. 

And Iā€™m going to help you do that.

Your Child is a Video Game Addict,

and You Want to Do something About It

I know youā€™ve tried to change things: maybe counseling, certainly nagging, books, programs, yelling, controlling. But your child still buries their face in a screenā€”playing games and sometimes even trying to convince you that playing games in a team is real social connection.

And youā€™re frustrated and tired.

Youā€™ve been looking for something that works, and here it is: principles that have proven to work hundreds of thousands of times all over the world.

You would not be here unless two things were true: 

  • (1) you have a child who is way too occupied with video gamesā€”way too much;  AND
  • (2) you care enough to do something about it.

If parents are thoroughly committed to learning and practicing what Iā€™m going to share with you, predictably I see children children quit their game addiction, and instead they become happy and fully engaged with lifeā€”even after everything else has failed.

You become happy too.

It is NOT hopeless

Iā€™m here to help you, and Iā€™ll be using the insight and experience of counseling with thousands of parents, and from writing 20 books and endless articles on the subject, as well as appearing on 1600 radio and television shows and presenting seminars all around the worldā€”and much more.

You are about to change the world around you, and you donā€™t have to do it alone, which is miserable and frustrating. Youā€™ve already proven that with your own experience.

What You Will Learn That You Donā€™t Already Know 

So now the question that has to be on your mind: what am I going to teach you about your child and addiction that you donā€™t already know?

What am I going to say that you havenā€™t already read or heard somewhere?  

This is going to be revolutionary for you to hear, so slow down your brain and listen with your soul: What does a child NEED more than anything else? After food, water, and air, the answer is SO obvious, and yet we keep missing itā€”over and over.

To see the answer, letā€™s start with an infant. When an infant criesā€”other than from obvious physical painā€”what does he want? You already know, because you just pick him up. Youā€™re pretty smart. You already know that every child wants to feel cared for. Every child wants to feel LOVED. 

Picking them up and holding them is just a demonstration of that. And if youā€™re genuine in caring about them, they FEEL it.

But infants are relatively easy to love. They smile and melt your heart, make cute little noises, and laugh in ways we never hear anywhere else. Theyā€™re adorable. 

But when they get older, they learn to spill things, make messes, ferociously say NO when you tell them what to do, scream in their car seat, fight with their siblings, refuse to listen to you, say ugly and hateful things to you and other people . . . 

and disappear into their video games. They get a LOT harder to love, and when that happens, we really donā€™t know what to do. Usually we try to control their behaviorā€”and we might even temporarily succeedā€”but it doesnā€™t last, and we end up with kids who are still addicted and unhappy. 

Weā€™re not so happy either.

Loving Your Children Unconditionally

Let me say this another way:

If our children become more difficult to love as their behavior changes, that proves we donā€™t know how to love them UNCONDITIONALLY.

If we love them unconditionally, weā€™d love them no matter what.

But if loving them becomes more difficult when theyā€™re difficult when they behave badly, our love is conditional.

Unconditional love or Real Love means caring about another person without wanting anything from then in return, but we DO expect something in return for the ā€œloveā€ we give our children: respect, cooperation, gratitude, and a certain level of reasonable and relatively easy behavior, which does not include the symptoms of ADHD.

The Real Effect of Anger and Disappointment

Now more about unconditional love: That kind of love would mean that our love would not be affected by what they do. Thatā€™s what unconditional love means.

But we really donā€™t know how to do that. How do I know? We PROVE it every time we become angry, or disappointed, or impatient, or irritated at them. Our anger and disappointment and frustration are undeniable PROOF that our love is not unconditional.

Deep inside, you know that what Iā€™m saying is true, but let me demonstrate further: When other people are angry at YOU, do YOU like it? NO, you donā€™t. Not ever. Nobody does. When other people are angry at us, or when weā€™re angry at other people, weā€™re all saying, ā€œLook at what you did to ME, or failed to do FOR ME.ā€

In anger, weā€™re focused on OURSELVESā€”Me-Me-Meā€”and in that moment other peopleā€”notably our childrenā€”hear only four words, ā€œI donā€™t love you.ā€ When weā€™re angry, weā€™re far too occupied with ourselves to unconditionally love another person.  

I repeat:

When we are angry at another person, including our child, they hear only, "I don't love you."

I promise you that this is true.

No, we donā€™t MEAN to say that, but what else COULD people hear while our words, tone, and behavior are screaming ME-ME-ME? ā€œI donā€™t love youā€ is what YOU hear and FEEL when people are angry at youā€”think about it honestlyā€”and itā€™s what our children hear and feel when weā€™re angry at them. And then we have an anxious child or anxious teenager.

Itā€™s little wonder that they respond with their own anger.

Again, we do NOT mean to do this. We do not mean to hurt our children.

But it was inevitable, because WE were not loved unconditionallyā€”which means being consistently loved without disappointment or anger. We were not loved freely, without conditionsā€”so how could we possibly have learned how to unconditionally love our own children? IMPOSSIBLE.

Nobody is to blame. Our ignorance of Real Love simply perpetuated over generations. We donā€™t know how to love unconditionally because weā€™ve never seen it or felt it with any consistency.

Childhood and Teenage Game Addiction is

a Reaction to Not Being Loved Unconditionally

For emphasis, Iā€™m going to say all this in a slightly different way:


When children behave badlyā€”when they are addicted to their games, for exampleā€”it is almost always a reaction to them not feeling loved unconditionallyā€”loved with no disappointment, irritation, frustration, or anger. 

Your child uses their smart phone to ESCAPE the pain of the world. Full stop.

What are you willing to do about that?

This could sound discouraging, even bleak. In some ways it IS bleak. Look at the worldā€”at the utter obsession with things that are distractions from our pain, from our not feeling loved: like endless entertainment, addiction to electronics, anger, controlling people, drugs, alcohol, sex, and on and on.

THERE is the proofā€”in our addiction to all those behaviorsā€”that overall we do not know how to love people unconditionally. If we did, and I speak here with vast experience, these behaviors would not exist.

Children and Teenagers Who are Loved Unconditionally Don't Become Addicted to Video Games

Iā€™ve been teaching unconditional love now for so many years to so many parents that I can tell you this with complete certainty: When a child truly feels loved unconditionally, he or she DOES NOT become addicted to games.

Instead theyā€™re HAPPYā€”and responsible, and have all those qualities you wish they had.

With sufficient love, there is simply no NEED to turn to video games and other unproductive behaviors. Happy people donā€™t behave badlyā€”like being addicted to their phone, for example. Period. Full stop. It seems almost like this statement is too broad, too much. Itā€™s not.

Why You're Not succeeding in Helping Your Children with their Game Addiction

How many times have you wondered why a child isnā€™t hearing what youā€™re saying? Thereā€™s an answer, and here it is: Because when youā€™re irritated, your child hears only ā€œI donā€™t love you,ā€ and that is so devastating, that he or she hears none of the rest of the content of what you say.

So THAT is what I'll be teaching you: 

How to LOVE your children unconditionally,

which then gives them a REASON to LISTEN to you.

If you love them unconditionally, they can HEAR you ā€”what youā€™re really sayingā€”because theyā€™re not distracted by their fear, not blinded and deafened by the ā€œI donā€™t love youā€ message. Then it becomes possible for you to teach them anythingā€”like how to be loving and responsible themselves.

And if they have that powerful trifectaā€”they feel loved, and they are loving and responsibleā€”they are guaranteed to be happy, which is the ultimate goal for any parent, or, frankly, any person.

Your Children Can Learn to Be Happy

Your children can learn that being genuinely happy is way better than substituting games, and screens for real life.

Take my hand, and weā€™ll talk about what you can doā€”and how I will support you. It will almost be like starting over in parenting. Youā€™re going to LEARN how to be a real parent, and your child will learn the lessons of life that will benefit him or her for the rest of their lives.

If you implement what you learn here, and if you do it consistently, you simply will not believe the differences youā€™ll see in your child, and in you, and in your family.

Imagine it: 

no more video game addictionā€”none,

no more inattention, 

no more tension in the family,

no more whining when you say it's time to be finished with a game.

Itā€™s astonishing to see and to feel.

Our children are not bad. Weā€™re not bad. 

We just have not known how to love and teach them.

Loving and Teaching Eliminates

Game Addiction in Children and Teenagers

What weā€™re doing to help our kids with their screen addiction IS NOT WORKING.

Loving and teaching them does.

Rarely is it too late to change whatever unproductive behaviors youā€™re dealing with, not if youā€™re really willing to learn and to apply these principles to the interactions with your child. I can promise you, learning how to be a parent is WORTH IT.

Youā€™re about to learn how to ELIMINATE the behaviors in your children that are hurting them and making you crazy. Really. 

I make you another promise:

Learning to be a loving, effective parent is EASIER than everything else youā€™ve done as a parent.

Transforming, Not Managing Your Children

Weā€™re really going to get into this. This is not a casual effort. Weā€™re not looking to make your children more manageable. Thatā€™s not even close to being enough.

Our mission is to help you to become a powerful and effective parent, and to help your child feel loved, and to be loving, responsible, and genuinely happy. Itā€™s a transformation.

If you ARE truly committed to learning how to parent, Iā€™M fully committed to teach you, and I will bring resources to the table you never thought about. The rewards are spectacularā€”as we have seen in uncounted thousands of families.

There is not a single thing youā€™ll ever do that will ring through the ages more powerfully than being a loving and effective parent.

You can do this, so let's get started.

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