Learning Points: Getting a grip on our children’s gaming habits

Opening a dialogue with the videogamer in your life, and how to avoid being the fall guy over screen time

Now that we are facing into more restrictions we can feel fatigued about all the challenges we have had to face in recent times. The specialists are predicting that the second surge is coming and we have to be resolute for another while longer. Of course, we will come through this and we will all be out again meeting our friends and living our normal lives. 

I have seen a huge increase in the amount of students seeking out therapy because they are anxious about everything that is going on around them and I have been asked to give webinars to parents, teachers and HSE workers about managing the year ahead while we go through this global health crisis. We have had to live through a pandemic, which has challenged us, as parents, in ways we never dreamed possible this time last year.