![]() ![]() and found her son playing the game on his bedroom computer. The trouble in her house started after she woke up at 2 a.m. My anti-video game attitude was only reinforced recently, when I read a story in the Boston Herald about a mom who was so frustrated by her son’s obsessive video gaming that she finally called 911.Īpparently, her 14-year-old had become so fixated on “Grand Theft Auto” that he refused to stop playing it. Plus, Cheetah Boy got a C on his report card, and I don’t want to reward him with anything until that grade comes up. The kids pointed out that I spent $82 the last time we all went bowling, and with the Wii, we could bowl at home for free.īut, with other priorities like a new bike and sewing machine, no Wii got purchased. This dilemma led me this Christmas to consider getting a video game system, at least a Wii that we could all play together. So, without them, they inhabit our house for only nanoseconds before they want to leave. No one demands over-processed Kraft snack foods from my kitchen - because my son goes over to other kids houses to get his video fix.Īnd it seems, where we live at least, that middle school boys can’t do anything in packs except play video games. Unfortunately, since we have neither video games nor a swimming pool, this does not happen. I would be the “fun mom,” the one who made popsicles, the one in the TV commercial with all the kids crowded around the kitchen counter, demanding more of those little pizza nuggets. This is a huge dilemma for me, because I always had this fantasy that my house would be the one that all the kids congregated at after school. After my son plays them at his friends’ houses, he comes home irritable and testy for the rest of the day.Įven though his skin is normally mocha-colored, after a day spent in a darkened room with a controller in his hand, he comes home with a sickly pallor. I truly believe that video games were created by Satan to turn otherwise normal children into his drooling, glassy-eyed stooges. My son has explained to me many times how this makes us freakish aliens from space. We have the only house in our neighborhood with no video games. ![]()
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