Sillyman433
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Hello all. Thank you for reading this.
Is my 12yo old son addicted to video games? I think he might be. He plays long hours, is going to sleep late, wants to play all day long. I know this might describe lots of kinds. But my son also is giving us a very hard time when we try to guide him. He wants to play with no interruptions, so when we tell him he's playing too much and needs to go to bed he becomes angry, and tells us to go away. Sometimes, after we had told him to stop playing several times in the lapse of a a couple hours, we have yelled at him, at he has had a crisis. He becomes obsessed with the though of us having interrupted him and tells us we are bad parents, keeps asking us why we had to stop him, sobs and groans, and is unable to sleep for hours. Sometimes he wakes up the next day and the crisis goes on for hours. This is really upsetting us, we really do not know how to deal with this. On one hand we know it is not healthy to play video games so much per day, sometimes he plays as much as 7 hours in a single day. On the other hand, we don't want him to suffer, and when he has a crisis he does really suffer. Is there any advice you could give us on how to deal with this situation?
Is my 12yo old son addicted to video games? I think he might be. He plays long hours, is going to sleep late, wants to play all day long. I know this might describe lots of kinds. But my son also is giving us a very hard time when we try to guide him. He wants to play with no interruptions, so when we tell him he's playing too much and needs to go to bed he becomes angry, and tells us to go away. Sometimes, after we had told him to stop playing several times in the lapse of a a couple hours, we have yelled at him, at he has had a crisis. He becomes obsessed with the though of us having interrupted him and tells us we are bad parents, keeps asking us why we had to stop him, sobs and groans, and is unable to sleep for hours. Sometimes he wakes up the next day and the crisis goes on for hours. This is really upsetting us, we really do not know how to deal with this. On one hand we know it is not healthy to play video games so much per day, sometimes he plays as much as 7 hours in a single day. On the other hand, we don't want him to suffer, and when he has a crisis he does really suffer. Is there any advice you could give us on how to deal with this situation?