It is parents' responsibility to monitor and guide their kids in all respects, including gaming. Gaming itself isn't bad; allowing problematic behavior to develop as a result of any stimuli (like gaming) is.
If your kids lie, cheat, steal, rebel, and don't eat, don't use gaming as a scapegoat. They are your responsibility.
Ya but the absurdity is that it's over VIDEO GAMES.
What they're complaining about is that something that's meant to be a temporary method of recreational enjoyment, becomes a mentally and physically debilitating condition.
But let's take for example the extreme issues (which are becoming a more common case) in Asia, where children hole themselves up in their room/fortress and refuse to come out; taking meals through some hole they've bashed into the bottom of their door.
How does it even come to that? Can you imagine doing that to your parents? My father would have kicked down the door, then proceeded to remind me what happens to people like Rodney King when they don't pull over for the police. KAPOW!
Though it's not surprising, with all the laid back approach that parents take to proper disciplinary methods, and the intrusion of government backed childrens' social services, what exactly CAN parents do?
Hell they won't even do the obvious thing, which is to just cut off the damn internet connection.
Besides, as our culture(s) become even more bizarre, so does the level of what we consider 'normal.'
Anyways, the ultimate worst thing we can do, is try to marginalize gaming/internet addiction, by contrasting it to other common addictions. They're all problematic, and can affect people to greater lengths.
Mocking the issue definitely won't resolve anything. Which means if you don't think it's a problem, then keep quiet - it's not going to affect you anyways right?
