re: Gaming addiction ...this is a epidemic

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Destroying the Xbox is not my idea...just admittibg I've thought about it.

Our son can check out sometimes

Too much gaming impacts his heart.../ attitude...we see it, very real...

Half the battle is all his friends are online too.

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Tell him you’re concerned about it. Tell him you love him and want to do the best for him.

Tell him you’re not going to make him quit doing what he loves, because you’re the one that let him get addicted in the first place and it’s not actually killing him.

But tell him that you believe he would be happier and have a better life now and in the future if he began to like other things more and spent more of his time doing those other things instead of playing video games.

And that because you believe that, even though you aren’t going to deny him the
Xbox, you are going to start making whatever sacrifices you have to in order to spend real time with him yourself and enabling him to have opportunities to do other things so that his life has more balance.

You’re going to have to sacrifice.