Resources

Kids’ Obsession with Fortnite is not an Addiction

The word “Fortnite” has rapidly inserted itself into almost every parent’s vocabulary in recent years, whether or not your son plays the game himself.

When kids are spending so much time on one thing, especially a video game, it is normal for parents to worry, and it is common for video games to become the centerpiece of all power struggles in the home. Video Game Addiction is a phrase that is also becoming increasingly common, and it is normal to worry whether or not your son’s hobby is turning into something less healthy.

In this article, Nir Eyal, author of the bestselling books Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, and more recently Indistractible: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, offers a measured examination of video game playing in kids and young adults, suggesting that their choice of that past-time over others is a sign of something else, and most often is not easily explained as an “addiction”.

To read the article, click here

Explore more resources

Nicholas Strouse talks with Vince Benevento and his colleagues who have formed a team to help young men who may have lost their way. Over the course of the podcast, they explore a crisis that many young men are facing: the inability to find an identity as a man, and an inertia that has stalled[...]
Click the video to watch the Causeway Team discuss challenges associated with sharing your home with your son as he returns back from school. Topics include: Surviving Finals Mental Health Setting Boundaries Failure to Launch Family Challenges Uncertainty and more
From The New York Times By Lisa Damour April 27, 2015 Last October I held a hastily scheduled psychotherapy session with a teenager facing a disastrous start to her college career. When we met, she somberly shared that she was on her university’s radar for her uncontrolled drinking and had a coming court date for a[...]

Book a discovery call