My 8 year old son is obsessed with the internet and I'm worried he will turn into a hermit/nerd. Up until last year I wouldn't even let him use the PC, it was playstation or nothing but then at christmas I gave in and let him play "The sims 2" and he became obsessed with it, sneaking on the pc at every available moment, copying the way they act and everything and constantly going on about it. Then he started to ask to go on the internet to download stuff for it so under supervision I let him on and was quite impressed with how well he could work it using google etc.
Then he was being bullied at school so I thought it might be a good idea to set him up an email address and let him have an 'e-pal' but after setting up an address we couldn't find any suitable sites for e-pals so he joined up to club penguin and became obsessed with that, going on about it constantly and annoying people with it and from there it has just got worse. He's constantly on the PC, he's joined up to runescape and habbo hotel and just chats online constantly. Today he is off school due to the floods and has spent the entire day on habbo hotel only coming down for his dinner. I asked him to put some clothes away very nicely earlier on and he snapped and screamed at me to stop disturbing him.
Should I ban the PC or are they all like this?
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Snakepit · 26/06/2007 16:13
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