So homeschooling is bringing a new parenting challenge in our house. Year 6 DS is supposed to be on zoom for 5 one hour lessons per day. This is boring and he has been opening another window to play/watch online games. This is complicated by the fact he plays online with friends who are being allowed to play all day despite the school lessons.
I have been reacting to finding him by banning him from gaming for that day, but mostly not following through completely so just limiting his gaming to one hour.
It all came to a head yesterday and I followed through and actually switched the pc off after his last lesson. Trouble is it was such a shock to his system he has been reacting with some very negative behaviour. Starting by being mean to his younger sister. I punished this with another days computer ban so he followed up by peeing all over the bathroom floor. I think he expected me to let him on the computer today despite the ban so when I didn’t he went to the toilet, pushed the toilet brush into his poo and put it back in the holder covered in shit.
I’ve just found this and given him another days ban but now I’m wondering what he will do in response.
The computer ban clearly isn’t resulting in better behaviour but what the heck am I supposed to do, I can’t just let him watch YouTube all day when he is supposed to be on zoom lessons?
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SnowmanDrinkingSnowballs · 22/01/2021 12:17
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