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When I was around that age I also had my PC taken away from me. My recommendation would be to see if you can kickstart some hobby by spending a few hundred doll

When I was around that age I also had my PC taken away from me. My recommendation would be to see if you can kickstart some hobby by spending a few hundred dollars on something as a substitute for the PC. Something of his choice than is more constructive than video games. When my PC was taken away and not replaced with anything, I just got bored and didn't know what to do with my time.

rock_hard 9y ago
Same with me when I was a kid. My parents also missed tons of opportunities to help me start other hobbies such as learning to play a instrument which I would have loved. So I stayed with the PC...lots of gaming initially, which lead to learning about hardware and how to build computers myself (gotta overclock that CPU)...but I also have to admit that it sparked the interest to make my own games early which led me to pick up programming and that opened up a ocean of opportunities later in life. It’s really hard to know what skill will be useful later in life...so now that I have kids in my own I try to support their natural interests which also allows my wife and I to moderate thins like gaming to some reasonable degree.
jhgorrell 9y ago
I enjoyed board games in my early years. YMMV.
ams6110 9y ago
I've been thinking that possibly that is part of the problem. Kids don't experience being bored anymore, and working out ways to deal with a lack of constant entertainment/stimulation. When I was a teenager I was frequently bored. Nothing on TV (we only had a few channels), no mobile phones, SMS, or online social media. You could call a friend on the telephone, maybe, if they were home and their phone wasn't busy. Once you were old enough to drive, and assuming you had access to a car, your options opened up a bit but meeting friends still took some planning. I have teens now, and I can literally not remember the last time I heard the "I'm bored" whinging that my parents heard so often. They are never bored. They always have their phones, with games and connections to friends. I don't know if that's good or bad.
tripletmass 9y ago
Where's my 34" irrevokable longboard smartphone I was promised, I might ask first. Or where are the desktop CPUs with fewer than 5-ring security please, without mentioning Intel Atom. This is the time period when encouraging people to go out coincided with being aware that meningitis and melinoma must be checked out by someone whose credentials would naturally be beyond all rapportage! Then Zika. And then don't go inside if the people there travel where long-capsid viruses are common; and the TSA would like to weigh in as a completely discredited agency which will be continuing thanks. Oh and no reason, but health premiums are a thing that mean to dominate now and if you work outside you can be fired for asking about health guidance. Primaries in the US; anyone, how's your favorite Third Party holding up? Great, great; now tell me just the good things about jurisprudence and family pride in Latin America; Canada if you like.

rock_hard 9y ago

Same with me when I was a kid. My parents also missed tons of opportunities to help me start other hobbies such as learning to play a instrument which I would have loved. So I stayed with the PC...lots of gaming initially, which lead to learning about hardware and how to build computers myself (gotta overclock that CPU)...but I also have to admit that it sparked the interest to make my own games early which led me to pick up programming and that opened up a ocean of opportunities later in life. It’s really hard to know what skill will be useful later in life...so now that I have kids in my own I try to support their natural interests which also allows my wife and I to moderate thins like gaming to some reasonable degree.

jhgorrell 9y ago

I enjoyed board games in my early years. YMMV.

ams6110 9y ago

I've been thinking that possibly that is part of the problem. Kids don't experience being bored anymore, and working out ways to deal with a lack of constant entertainment/stimulation. When I was a teenager I was frequently bored. Nothing on TV (we only had a few channels), no mobile phones, SMS, or online social media. You could call a friend on the telephone, maybe, if they were home and their phone wasn't busy. Once you were old enough to drive, and assuming you had access to a car, your options opened up a bit but meeting friends still took some planning. I have teens now, and I can literally not remember the last time I heard the "I'm bored" whinging that my parents heard so often. They are never bored. They always have their phones, with games and connections to friends. I don't know if that's good or bad.

tripletmass 9y ago

Where's my 34" irrevokable longboard smartphone I was promised, I might ask first. Or where are the desktop CPUs with fewer than 5-ring security please, without mentioning Intel Atom. This is the time period when encouraging people to go out coincided with being aware that meningitis and melinoma must be checked out by someone whose credentials would naturally be beyond all rapportage! Then Zika. And then don't go inside if the people there travel where long-capsid viruses are common; and the TSA would like to weigh in as a completely discredited agency which will be continuing thanks. Oh and no reason, but health premiums are a thing that mean to dominate now and if you work outside you can be fired for asking about health guidance. Primaries in the US; anyone, how's your favorite Third Party holding up? Great, great; now tell me just the good things about jurisprudence and family pride in Latin America; Canada if you like.