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Hudson Valley Parent 5
Video game addiction:
a mom's perspective
Set limits early for your kids' online time
by JILL VALENTINO
Video games
today are almost
unrecognizable
when compared
to the ones I
played as a kid. I
grew up playing
ColecoVision, At-
ari and Nintendo
64. Today's game consoles make those
three systems seem primitive in compar-
ison.
Set rules and limits
Approximately 88 percent of
American children play video games.
Yet many of their parents grew up in
a pre-internet world. Having no frame
Jill Valentino
mom, teacher and author
