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		<title>Why ADHD Can Be So Hard for Young Males—And What Actually Helps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many young males with ADHD grow up being told they are impulsive, unmotivated, lazy, or “not thinking things through.” What’s often missed is that their brains are operating from a fundamentally different starting point—one shaped by uncertainty, delayed regulation, and a nervous system that doesn’t follow typical rhythms. Understanding how their brains work is the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 17:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When my kid first started playing video games, it was a great way for them to unwind. It also gave me peace of mind, knowing they were staying out of trouble. At the time, it didn’t seem like a problem, they still had other activities in their life, and they only played a few hours [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Parental Controls on Digital Devices &#8211; Do They Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Parental control software is designed to help parents manage and monitor their children&#8217;s digital activities, but it comes with several downsides, and tech-savvy kids often find ways to bypass these controls.  There is a false sense of security that comes with using this software. Some parents rely too heavily on these tools, believing they fully [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What are the Health Risks Associated with Video Gaming Addiction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As video games have evolved from a casual pastime into a cultural phenomenon, their immersive nature and accessibility have brought both joy and challenges. While gaming offers entertainment and social connectivity, excessive gaming—classified as &#8220;video gaming addiction&#8221; or &#8220;gaming disorder&#8221; in some cases—can lead to significant mental and physical health concerns, particularly for adolescents and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Meeting the Emotional Needs of a Teenager</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I work with several families with children struggling with video gaming and screen addiction in their mid and later teen years. One of the consistent issues that comes up during our intakes, is that these young people feel unseen and unheard, and mostly misunderstood. Although parents spend a number of years guiding and directing their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trauma and Addiction; What I Learned at the University of Oxford</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I travelled to the United Kingdom to study The Master’s Event on Mental Health and Trauma at the University of Oxford. These lectures brought together many renowned mental health experts from around the world to share their knowledge with therapists and coaches hungry for the latest information to help their clients. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ADHD, Gaming Addiction, and Body Doubling; How Does It Help?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For those individuals who have ADHD, finding the motivation to begin and/or complete mundane tasks, such as chores and homework, can be an enormous struggle. And oftentimes, this person will avoid or procrastinate on these tasks while looking for something far more appealing to engage their brain. In my line of work, that more tempting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Understanding the Emotional Needs of Your Addicted Gamer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you’re a parent of an addicted gamer, you understand the emotional upheaval this can create in your home. Children often communicate their emotions through their behaviours. These emotions range from irritability or sadness, isolation or clinginess, to full on meltdowns or despondency. Sometimes the emotions are heightened while they play video games, and sometimes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Self-care &#038; Rest for Parents of Disordered Gamers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having a self-care practice, that includes rest, is crucial when dealing with an addicted child because it allows parents to maintain their own physical, emotional, and mental well-being amidst the challenges and stressors of supporting their child through addiction. Caring for an addicted child can be emotionally draining, overwhelming, and all-consuming, often leading to feelings [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Parents, Is it Difficult to Establish Boundaries with Your Addicted Gamer?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 02:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When coaching families struggling with a video gaming addicted child, I find that sometimes my strategies are met by parents who have great difficulty trying to establish and maintain boundaries.  Opening a dialogue about gaming addiction can be met with resistance, defensiveness, or denial from the child, making it more difficult to create parameters and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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