following on from my first post - I thought this was getting lenghtly and confusing... DS is allowed on wii in lounge anytime between 7am and 7pm depending on what else he is doing. obviously we dont allow him on all day, but maximum time allowed is one hour following a family chat last weekend. Problem is ds expects absolute silence in the room when he is playing, and cannot cope with any distraction. Only yesterday, he was playing fifa 12, I was finishing off my breakfast and dw was feeding dd, aged 17 months. DW left the room to fetch dd a yoghurt and instantly, ds called out loud that he was losing 2-0, clearly annoyed. I barely spoke a word and ds started to get loud at the same time (typical toddler). ds started shouting at me saying I was annoying him, and then pushed dd's head. she was in highchair at time. dw came into room mid flow and asked what was going on. this happened before and results in me and ds arguing. dw is fed up with this and wants a stop to it, as do I. I asked for wii to be turned off for 30 minutes as per rules, and ds refused. I asked again and he refused. I had to go over to take the remote out of his hand, at which point, he threw the wii remote in anger. Wii was now banned for one hour. DS proceeded to play on laptop.
Is it reasonable for ds to move onto another electrical item if one is banned. Kind of defeats the object if you ask me. To be fair, he was ready for school in time, but dw and I found the morning stressful. Goodness knows how dd felt. any guidelines that I can share with dw would be very helpful. Many thanks.