DS is 15, 16 this year. He's always loved gaming, maybe a bit too much so we have always restricted how many hours he can go on his PC a day as he would never come off it otherwise. Up until the summer hols, he would come off around 9:30 in the week and 11 at the weekend. During the holidays it became clear that most of his friends were gaming late at night, up to about 3am. He felt he was missing out on the chat so asked if he could stay on a bit later and he would not start gaming until after dinner. We agreed about 1ish would be acceptable although he has been on later once or twice but never as late as some of the others.
DP has hit the roof about this. He doesn't like him gaming late and thinks it is way too late, can't believe he comes to bed after us etc. I think he is totally out of touch with today's teenagers. He has been in a mood for the last few weeks and I feel like we are walking on eggshells the whole time. We have had words and he will not back down. Now DS is back at school, he is coming off early again but has asked me if he can game late on a Friday. I think this is reasonable but there is no way DP will. Any advice how we can resolve this?