With all games, she recommends helping children make the connection between what they do on-screen and real life by—sigh—quizzing them. Yes, add this to your modern parenting repertoire. She counsels parents to ask their kids what they have gotten better at since they began playing a game. However, the important aspect to this question is to get at the abstract skills. So if your daughter answers, “I got better at slinging this bird,” or your son says, “I’m really good at using this kind of power-up,” you have to dig deeper. Push them to move past the concrete tasks and get into the larger
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