My 6 year old used to get aggressive when asked to stop playing computer games and will throw tantrums. He doesn't get to play a lot as i am fed with his behaviour. It is to the point now that all he talks about is games and even after he has had the amount of time he is allowed, will still keep asking to play on my phone whenever he has free time.
I have tried in the past to let him play whenever he wants and for as long as he wants, in the hope that he will just get bored of it. This didn't work and he would sit for hours playing, even leaving his dinner to play.
Now i make him work for it in terms of concentrating at school in class, playing and sharing nicely with friends and using his manners. With 5 days of good behaviour, he gets to watch a film on fridays, play games on saturdays but have to show self discipline when it's time to stop with no tantrums, then he gets another turn on sunday. This started off working well for 2 weeks until of course the start of summer holidays.
I would take him out and he would moan that it's boring and be rude. He just doesn't seem to want to do anything unless it's playing games on my phone or the computer.
Has anyone else had a similar experience or any advice for me. I'm getting really fed up and just don't know what to do!
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6 year old obsessed with computer games!
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Feellikerubbish · 29/07/2014 13:12
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