ChatterBank36 mins ago
Online Usage
My child subscribes to an online game. He claims to play it when "there is nothing better to do." He gets good grades (honor roll), no drugs, alcohol, or sex. But sometimes he plays it roughly 3-4 hours a day. He does however go outside and play football and basketball for long streches at a time. He does not have a high school club, but does recreational basketball. My main worry is that he becomes addicted to this game. At times, i let him stay home and when we leave he is on it, and when we are back he still is. He does fit my requierment of going with the family one place a week. I have tried a time restraint but he somehow seems to get on.
Should i take away the online game? Or should I let him keep it, allowing his grades are good, and he has a social life
Thanks :)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Let him play the game.
He sounds like a good kid, who is mature enough to have found a way to relax and get away from his studies for a few hours. Essential for higher education, and a very useful strategy for coping with the difficulties life can throw up.
How many hours do you spend on chat pages, btw? :)
My partner (who's 36) plays online games for three or four hours a day. It annoyed me when we first met, but then I realised that I would spend much longer reading a book, or watching the telly. They are all just ways of passing the time in ways which entertain us. At work, you have to take breaks every hour for five to ten minutes to give your eyes a rest from the computer monitor, so suggest the same to him.