I came across an interesting site yesterday that offers a video game called Earthquake in Zipland that is supposed to help children deal with issues surrounding divorce. I have to say that I haven’t used it, so I can’t verify its effectiveness. But it does look fairly interesting. Plus, it seems like a pretty logical way to help children. If your kid is anything like mine, you are constantly competing for adoration with a machine.

Here are 5 sure fire signs that your child is a video game addict:

1. Their hand/eye coordination is better than most surgeons. (Wow. Read that article. I’m not kidding.)
2. They have more video games than books.
3. They have written a chapter book chronicling their adventures in their favorite video game. (true story)
4. Every life event can be related back to something that happened in a video game. For example, “When you stepped on that bug, it was kind of like how I swing that club thing and squish those squirrel things in. . . blah blah blah.”
5. When playing a video game their eyes glaze over, they hear nothing, and getting them to stop requires prying the controller from their death grip.

Okay, so it’s not quite that bad at my house, but there have been days that bordered on it. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been known to obsess a little a LOT over video games. So, who knows, maybe Earthquake in Zipland is right on target by using technology to help children of divorce.