Teen Collapses After 4-Day Video Game Session

i dunno, some parents are definitely VERY neglectful of their children. plus who the heck can play a game straight for that long? even in my days when i played games like crazy i could only last four hours tops!

 

I admit, I'm game crazy, and there are times where I stay up all night playing, but that's not very frequent, and I take breaks.

Unfortunately, this has happened before, and, sadly, people don't learn from these tragedies.

 

Not all the blame is on the parents. I'd put most on the kid. He should have known better, at the age of 15. Hopefully, he's learnt a lesson from this, and if not, and he's hospitalised again for his stupidity, he will deserve it.

 

haha i see some of your points in your post bro but this guys only like what fifteen? at the age of fifteen it's really your parents job to teach ya when it's time to fricken stop. if i saw my kid on a game for just a day straight id tell him to just go piss outside or something.

 

But at the same time, the kid is 15. That's more than old enough to know that what he's doing is just plain stupid. Is his life really that lacking that he can go 4 days without seeing any friends or family? Doesn't he have a job, or school? A girlfriend? Sports?

 

haha true i see your point on that too. but just answer this though: would you let your kid go through with a four day geeking out spree?

 

I would repeatedly tell him that I think it's a bad Idea, but if he wanted to keep at it I would let him. Natural punishment.

At a younger age I would be more forceful, sure. But by 15 you know what's good for you, if you want to ignore that then that is your business, I'm not gonna be holding your hand.

 

i see where you're coming from but i dont really see myself letting my son/daughter off the parental 'leash' until they can drive. i think that's when kids really should start being a lot more independent. fifteen for me im still gonna be barking orders lol.

i agree to disagree. see your points but then again my personal views come into play as well.

 

I would, so that they would learn their lesson. As a slightly related example, my aunt and uncle let my cousin drink at home to the point of throwing up, so that she learnt to not do it again. Needless to say, she's learnt her lesson, and is quite responsible with her drinking now, so I don't see why it wouldn't work in this case.

 

haha well in the case of this kid it nearly cost him his life so...

 

I find this a bit funny (for lack of a better word). It sounds like your idea of it is the same as mine except that we differ by a single year in this case of the when.

Though honestly I would have to play it by ear. If I had a kid that routinely had self harming behaviors, then obviously the natural punishment is not adequate and I would need to intervene in some form. I might end up being hands on for as long as they lived in my house, forget driving age, legal age, drinking age, or whatever other checkpoint you can think of.

 

a lot changes in a teenager between the space of being accompanied by a parent in the car and being by yourself.

 

I'm on the side of the debate that the Mum should of known better because even though he's 15 he's not quite a adult yet he still a teen. The Mum should of really done something to check on her son to see if he was doing okay and made sure that he got some sleep I mean what about school ? And school studies ?

Plus it's not normal human behaviour higherschooler or not and she really should of tried to made sure that her son got some healthy stuff in his system and limited him to the X-Box. She really should of made sure that she made sure that he got some sunlight, some water, some food, some excericse and some sleep. Plus some people can end up being addicted towards games and she should of made sure that his time video gaming wasn't turning into a pleasure drug.

Video gaming is only bad if you make it bad.

 

For a kid to be able to spend four days straight on a video game, without stopping, there has to be some kind of mental instability. If his mind and body aren't telling him better, like to go eat or use the bathroom, or sleep, then something is wrong, and it's up to the parent to make sure her kid is taken care of BEFORE something like this happens, and jesus, if you don't care that your child is up playing games this long, then maybe you have mental problems.

 

Agree on all accounts.

For the 15 year old kid, you'd think that maybe his body would kick in and say, "Hey go to bed! Look away from the screen! Go outside!" I'm a major gamer, and I know i've had a few of those "How long have I been playing?" moments, but after about twenty four hours my mind slips and the slightest diversion of my attention knocks me out, flat. He should have stepped away and did what he had to do. You can't expect your parents to give you commands all the time.

Now for the other point of view. If I was the parent of this kid, I would have put an end to it after one night without sleep. There's a thing called a breaker box. I would have shut it off, then when he woke up the next morning he would be eating a quick breakfast and spending a very long day outside. Though i'd probably take over his video games lol jk

Seriously though, both of them are at fault. The kid for not acting his age and taking on responsibilities himself. The mother, for not stepping up and realizing that something needed to be done. Hopefully a lesson is learned here, one for both kids and parents.

 

stupid kid. stupid mother. you don't just stay in your room for 4 days and game without doing anything else. and if your kid isn't leaving his room and you don't know what's going on and you don't bother to check on him, you're a terrible parent. frankly, i'm not surprised the kid did it because he probably knew his mom wasn't going to check up on him or anything.