![]() But in addition to the siren call of TikTok, I’ve noticed the steady growth of large online games like Fortnite, EA’s Apex Legends, Call of Duty: Warzone, and Riot Games’s Valorant, each of which has hundreds of millions of monthly active users. ![]() ![]() Pediatricians agree that children and adolescents need a decent amount of sleep every night, preferably eight or more hours, to reduce the risk of health problems. Kids have been staying up late since what seems like the dawn of time, and devices are only making it easier. His grades qualified him for the high honor roll last year, he’s taking advanced courses, and he has a social life both online and off. Then he got a gaming PC, became a ranked Valorant player, and seemingly overnight my wife and I were regularly woken up by his yelling over FaceTime and Discord or his YouTube streams.Īt first we tried to limit his late-night gaming time to weekends, vacations, and holidays, in part because his schoolwork wasn’t being affected. My 13-year-old kid got a PlayStation 4 and started staying up late playing Fortnite online with friends. But I found a tech fix that at least slowed him down: A firewall. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: I can’t get my teenage son to stop playing Fortnite until the early morning.
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