Suspended from college

Naturally
Sat, 22 May 2010 22:23:48 +0000

I would think that if he can live without video games for the 2 years that he’s at a community college, and he learns some study habits, then he could do well when he goes away again. At that point, he’ll have seen the benefits of trying hard at college.



There are kids who have great study habits all through high school, then crash and burn during college due to playing WoW all day. And there WILL be easily accessible video game consoles in any dorm, whether he brings any or not. Many, many kids will bring them and welcome others to hang out and play them.

Look, I’m not saying any kid should get unlimited computer time. But if the* only *reason a kid isn’t playing video games is that he can’t access them, then what will happen when he’s in a position where he CAN? Answer: you don’t know. IMO, it’s more important to a) find out why the kid is playing video games so much and b) get him to adhere to a reasonable schedule on his own steam than to merely lock away all video games ever.

I don’t have a pat one-size-fits-all answer for this complicated problem, but simply locking away all video games isn’t going to do it, IMO.