Gaming Ban

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-47813894

I have to agree. I've seen my youngest become obsessed with playing these types of games online with his friends and the meltdowns are crazy.

I'm always banning him and restricting him but he just comes home from school and goes on there for 4 hours straight before I get home.

His latest tantrum (12 year old) he headbutted the arm of his gaming chair and caught the plastic part and cut his head.

I've deleted both Fortnite and Apex Legends and have taken away (to be sold) Call of Duty games, FIFA is offline only.

Is technology wrecking kids heads?

I've taken a stand, no more.

 

You’ll crack within a week

#bully

 

I have done in the past but not this time, the obsession with it is meaning he doesn't want to go anywhere at all, he just wants to stay in and play that ****ing game all the time. Getting him to do anything is difficult.

 

of course it is, pretty much everything these days is a head-****, designed by people who went to university to learn how to head ****. Everyone's at it, the shops, the TV, the politicians. Few people escape it, maybe the Amish do, but that's probably it.

 

Totally agree with your stance mate, I have my 9 year old daughter restricted to 1 hour of Minecraft a day playing offline. Fortnite is totally banned. KIds becoming addicted and ****ty kids cracking the accounts.. one ****ed up world we have..

 

Knock his ****in teeth out

Little ****

I threw my 4 year old around a few times this morning coz he wanted my I Pad

Headlock with gentle pressure to the windpipe always works aswell

 

I'm taking phone and tablet away at 9pm as well, proper sick of it.

 

If I think back I'm sure I used to get wound up with games as a kid but then I'd just go out, it was nothing like the level of anger I've seen from my youngest.

 

Seriously Luv...wait till his mum's out and then slap him around a bit

 

The funniest rage I ever saw was when I beat my mate at kick-off 2 with a dirty penalty. he swung the joystick at the wall and shattered it, that wasn;t enough to assuage his rage so he climbed on the desk and stamped on the computer til it was in bits.

 

He does head in at times and frustrates me more than the other 2 ever did, I have to leave the house as he's not a little kid you can smack for being naught he's 12 FFS. Like I said on the smacking thread spend a week with my youngest and these hippy ****ers will have decked him.

 

Tablet and phone go at 8pm, got the google family link set up too, it's brilliant to stop her downloading free games full of ****e, I have to approve everything via a notification..

 

One of his mates put a controller through his TV. ****ing crazy.

 

Didn't know you knew Ray Winstone Ern?

 

my mum banned computers from the house due to my anger at the ****ing thing cheating.

 

I bet he still got the ****ing Ipad off you bro?

 

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I got home from work one night a few years ago, and as I got out of the car, a neighbor, young lad, mate of my son’s, stuck his head out of his bedroom window and announced that the Old Bill had been round to my house and kicked the door in.

Wtf? thinks I, surely he’s got that wrong, but nope. Long story short, my son (then 22, home on leave from the army) went totally mental and, in a blind fury, smashed up his xbox, howled and bellowed like an enraged bull, threw various items of digital crap out the window, and pissed off out in a rage.

A neighbor then called the cozzers to report a disturbance, and they, finding the place empty on arrival, kicked the door down, which is apparently policy in case someone is lying brown-bread indoors. So that’s what I came home to in the middle of the night after a 10 hour shift.

 

I take the Xbox controllers with me in the week, which helps the Mrs have control, but that just exacerbates the weekend use.

My middle boy and his mate are on FIFA right now, which is perfectly ok. Got no issue with this, there is currently peace in earth and this is what the thing is for.

It's when my sons battle over Fortnite that things get nasty.

Fortnite is a drug and affects everything; getting them to football training, to weekend matches, to the Swans. You'd think I was sending them down the ****ing mine sometimes, the attitude I get.

Once they are off it, a cloud lifts. I'd happily put it in the middle of the road and drive my car over it. Might yet do, will see how things pan out this weekend.

 

I'm deffo sticking to my ban now.