About this episode

This episode discusses managing children's video game usage during the summer holidays, including strategies for agreement and safety.

The school holidays take down every fence that term time builds around gaming, and the companies behind your child's favourite games plan for those six weeks the way supermarkets plan for Christmas. This year that means a Fortnite battle pass that runs out on the 19th of August and a summer event in Grow a Garden, now the biggest game on Roblox, with a reward that asks for attendance six days in every seven. In this episode I cover how to agree the shape of the summer in week one, and the console settings worth switching on before the first argument. There's a way of finishing sessions that doesn't end in a row, and a warning about the free Robux scams currently dressed up as official summer events. And there's the good bit, the games worth playing together whilst you've got the time, because the industry has planned its summer around your children and it's worth planning yours around them.

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Host: Andrew Wilmot

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Products: Fortnite, Grow a Garden, Roblox

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