"I'm stumped as to how to handle video games with my kid. And it's a problem that needs answering." Nothing works better than the old fashioned way: spend time

"I'm stumped as to how to handle video games with my kid. And it's a problem that needs answering." Nothing works better than the old fashioned way: spend time with them. I can only assume that your parents and your friends parents were like mine - too busy with their own things to really guide you through life. All I needed was to be enabled to do something different and get good at that instead. This sounds trite but it isn't if you are a kid. Simple things like encouragement goes a long way. Help them research what is out there. Make them feel like a priority - I never explored anything else because I felt like I couldn't, for example something that required my parents to drive me around.