How to Raise a Healthy Gamer

“Clear, persuasive, and rooted in the most current research as well as the wisdom of the ages, How to Raise a Healthy Gamer is the book you’ve been looking for ― not only for your child but for yourself as well!” ― Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of Driven to Distraction and ADHD 2.0

“I highly recommend this calm, structured, and nurturing approach to better and less screen use.” ― Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole Brain Child and No Drama Discipline

“This groundbreaking book will give you what you need to come to an informed and sensible resolution that works for you. It’s a book that will give you the strength to live within your values and that will support your hope for a family that is deeply connected.” ― Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting and The Soul of Discipline

“Complete with scripts, milestones, rewards, and boundaries, this book will walk you through every step of the process to build an alliance with your child, helping them learn use their gaming strengths toward fulfillment in the world beyond their console.” ― Michelle Icard, author of Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child A Success

Dr Kanojia, known widely as ‘Dr K,’ is the foremost expert on video game psychology as Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a private psychiatrist working with esports professionals, and the cofounder of Healthy Gamer. He has first-hand experience as an avid gamer and due to his personal struggles with video game addiction as a teenager and young adult. Despite having loving parents who tried to help – they simply didn’t understand what they were dealing with – after two years of college, Alok had less than a 2.0 GPA. There were simply no solutions, so he first traveled to India, where he embarked on a seven year journey to become a monk. After years of dedicated practice to understand the nature of desire and overcome his own addiction, Dr. Kanojia transitioned away from a spiritual life, conducting neuroscience research at Harvard Medical School for two years. He ultimately went to medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine, and completed his psychiatry training at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital (Respectively the #1 and #2 top psychiatric hospitals in the US) and Harvard Medical School, where he continues to teach about video game addiction. After helping gamers in his clinical practice, Dr Kanojia started Healthy Gamer, an online digital mental health platform that helps gamers and parents achieve healthy video gaming habits. Dr K’s Healthy Gamer psychoeducational content reaches 3-5M people monthly on YouTube, and his Healthy Gamer Coaching program has helped nearly 10,000 people all over the world take control of their lives. Dr Kanojia’s Healthy Gamer programs have been proven to improve the parent-child relationship, improve mental health, and reduce addictive gaming. How to Raise a Healthy Gamer is a distillation of the most universal themes parents contend with combined with the most effective, most impactful practices from Dr Kanojia’s evidence-based programs.