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When children's emotional investment in gaming worlds seems excessive

My 8-year-old son talks about his Minecraft world like it's a real place he lives and I don't know if that level of immersion is healthy.

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The boundaries between imagination and reality blur in ways that concern but don't clearly threaten.

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