Gaming

To make gaming an open topic of discussion, we use the Grip on Gaming method.
This method is not intended for children or teenagers with a gaming addiction — that requires a different approach. Grip on Gaming focuses on bridging the gap in knowledge and communication between gamers and their parents.

🎯 Gaming doesn’t only have negative sides. It can actually promote valuable skills such as perseverance, teamwork, strategic thinking, and problem-solving. With the right guidance, these skills can also be applied in everyday life. That’s why it’s so important to make gaming a topic of conversation — it helps parents and children understand each other better and learn together how to navigate the digital world in a healthy way.

👀 In practice, children are often given too much freedom too quickly when it comes to gaming. There’s little supervision or discussion about what they play, so parents may not always know which games their child is playing or what kind of images and content they’re exposed to. The Grip on Gaming method helps bring back parental involvement, making it easier to make conscious choices together.

🚲 A helpful way to understand this is by comparing gaming to learning how to ride a bike.
At first, you teach your child to ride with training wheels — explaining how to pedal, steer, and brake. Once that goes well, you remove the training wheels and keep practicing together to maintain balance. There might be a few falls along the way, but you stay close, guiding and supporting where needed. Eventually, you take your child out onto the street, teaching them the traffic rules and gradually giving them more independence — first close to home, then farther away — until you can trust that they can ride safely on their own.

With gaming, however, this process often goes differently. Children are frequently left to explore a vast digital world full of excitement, challenges, and temptations without guidance. They don’t always learn step by step how to game safely or recognize potential risks. As a result, parents lose track of what their child is playing, who they’re playing with, and how it’s affecting them.

With Grip on Gaming, we help parents and children go through this process consciously and together — building understanding, clear communication, and trust as the foundation.