So tonight I fell out with my son (again). He is 10 years old and obsessed with gaming/socialising with friends electronically.
He attends clubs 3 times per week and most of the time he tries to get out of those to stay in front of his Xbox. I don’t allow him to and put up with the attitude to get him out doing something else.
I really don’t know what to try next. We have tried limiting it (ie 2 hours per day) but I feel guilty because “all his friends play as much as they want”.
Bed time is at 9pm and I make him finish up gaming at 8pm, this isn’t unreasonable to me but tonight he made me feel awful about it.
Any tips from those other gaming mums? Why do I feel so bad every time I tell him off about it? He says things like “all I do is make you unhappy!?” and it grabs at my heart strings and I think about it for hours....
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CrazyMum882233 · 03/05/2021 22:47
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