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Ideal_Rock
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I am so exasperated with him. Call him Sam.
His gaming addiction is the #1 stressor in our household right now.
He had a family heritage project due today. and managed to spend around 15 hours gaming this weekend, and around 2 hours doing the project. The project is mediocre at best, with many errors that I barely caught while proofreading it (about 20 mins before he had to leave for school - he didn't want me to look at it earlier). The errors were about me and my family or I would have likely let them go.
He's a bright kid. Extremely bright. We have rules about computer use, and have resorted to disconnecting the internet. Somehow he finds a way around it all. Consequences are imposed, and followed through with. He has an iPod, and when I look over, he is hunched over that. I've tried to take away the iPod, and WW3 resulted. We compromise, talk to him like the growing individual he is, he promises to focus and lead a more balanced life, and then nothing changes. The kid didn't actually go outside all weekend.
This is the ongoing scenario in our home. Not just a one-off. Weekend after weekend after weekend.
Our teenage boys are in a crisis folks, and it is called computer use, the Internet and gaming.
I'm making the call.
It's here in my hand: "An Education and Support Group for Parents of Teens".
Wish me luck.
His gaming addiction is the #1 stressor in our household right now.
He had a family heritage project due today. and managed to spend around 15 hours gaming this weekend, and around 2 hours doing the project. The project is mediocre at best, with many errors that I barely caught while proofreading it (about 20 mins before he had to leave for school - he didn't want me to look at it earlier). The errors were about me and my family or I would have likely let them go.
He's a bright kid. Extremely bright. We have rules about computer use, and have resorted to disconnecting the internet. Somehow he finds a way around it all. Consequences are imposed, and followed through with. He has an iPod, and when I look over, he is hunched over that. I've tried to take away the iPod, and WW3 resulted. We compromise, talk to him like the growing individual he is, he promises to focus and lead a more balanced life, and then nothing changes. The kid didn't actually go outside all weekend.
This is the ongoing scenario in our home. Not just a one-off. Weekend after weekend after weekend.
Our teenage boys are in a crisis folks, and it is called computer use, the Internet and gaming.
I'm making the call.
It's here in my hand: "An Education and Support Group for Parents of Teens".
Wish me luck.