Featured Resource
How Years of Gaming Affects Your Brain
What does years or even decades of gaming do to your brain? To understand this we'll take a deeper look into both dopamine and serotonin.
Video Game Addiction: Video game addiction (internet gaming disorder) is characterized by severely reduced control over gaming habits, resulting in negative impacts on daily functioning, including personal, social, educational and occupational responsibilities.
Dopamine: Neurotransmitter in the brain that acts as a "reward center" or "feel good hormone" and impacts memory, movement, motivation, mood, and attention.
Cortisol: Widely known as the body's "stress hormone," it has a variety of effects on different functions throughout the body.
LINKS
First Video Game Addiction Rehab
Learn about the first rehab for video game addiction in the United States.
Online Gaming Site Safety
Enough is Enough offers parents information and tools for keeping kids safe in online gaming platforms.
ACTIVITIES
Screen Time Guidelines
Learn and apply the American Academy of Pediatrics' Screen Time Guidelines in addition to healthy tech rules to create on- and offline balance.
Game Quitters Hobby Tool
Review the variety of hobbies from the Game Quitters Hobby Tool with your child or teen to balance out screen time.
Game Quitters Video Series
Watch the Game Quitters free YouTube video series with your children or teens to explore the need to balance screen time.
READING & RESEARCH
Nine Most Addicting Games
Read Game Quitters research about the most addictive games in the world.
Why Wilderness Therapy Works
Article from Video Game Addiction about the effectiveness of outdoor education for treating video game addiction.
ORGANIZATIONS
Dr. K's Guide to Parenting Gamers
Dr. K’s Guide to Parenting Gamers is an evidence-based, digital course designed and proven to empower parents with the knowledge and tools needed to tackle the complexities around technology and parenting in the digital age.
Game Quitters
Game Quitters offers community forums, tools, videos, quizzes, and video game addiction support for gamers, parents and spouses/partners.
Computer Gaming Addicts Anonymous
Computer Gaming Addicts Anonymous is a fellowship of people who support each other in recovering from the problems resulting from excessive game playing.
Center for Humane Technology
We awaken millions globally to the individual and societal harms of social media platforms through mainstream media campaigns and resources like Your Undivided Attention and The Social Dilemma.