Gaming addiction destroying my brothers life and tearing the family apart.

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Seece said:

Xxain said:
Your Brother needs his ass kicked, all games removed and escorted to school everyday. One thing I was seriously taught was not to steal, just taking cookies without permission would be enough for physical punishment.

Your parents are destroying him, kids will only do what you allow them too. If that was my brother I would kick his ass myself.

Physical abuse towards a child is fucking disgusting and it doesn't solve anything, it actually makes matters worse.

100% agree with this. Resorting to violence solves nothing in this case. Honestly, it rarely solves problems in majority of cases, especially in child raising. It will only cause the kid to resent his parents, who coincedentally are the same people who are responsible for the child falling into these bad habits.

The answer to this is simple. Take the games away.

If the kid can stay home all day and play video games then he sure as hell can go to school and learn. If he can stay up until 11:30PM to play Halo then he sure as hell can stay up late and study.

I don't see thie chronic fatigue hindering him in the activity he feels like doing so the parents need to take some action, be responsible and get this kid off his ass and back in school.

You don't get symphathy for feeling tired and the parents sure as hell don't get any symphathy for giving into this kind of behaviour. This kid has been enabled by the parents to act like this and because of that he has no drive what so ever to return to school.

This is a problem the parents need to solve and if they can't then shame on them because they are allowing this kid to destroy his future.