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How to Get a Kid to Stop Rambling Too Much About Their Favorite Video Game

Several years ago, a friend’s son—who was about eight years old at the time—asked me if he could tell me something about Minecraft. My own son wasn’t yet old enough to be playing games like Minecraft, so knowing basically nothing about it, I said that of course he could tell me. I leaned in with my undivided attention as my friend muttered, “You’ll regret that.” This boy, whom I love dearly, then