Mom of gamer needs advice
My 19 year old son is a gamer and flunked his first two semesters of college in large part because of gaming. He probably was spending minimum 50 hrs/week gaming, staying up all night and sleeping half the day. When he came home for the summer and told me he flunked out, I told him he can’t play video games in my house because he has a problem and I can’t condone this behavior and allow him to continue on this self-destructive path while he’s living in my house. I put the gaming computer and game systems in storage. He may go get them, since they are his, but he can’t bring them in my house. He has nowhere else to go and relies on us for everything, so he is following the rules, but he pretty much hates me. It’s like living with a dry drunk and I’m the keeper of the booze. I’m wondering if I made a mistake because now he’s trying to bargain with me, etc. Is there a better way to do this? He shows 100% of the symptoms of gaming addiction.