WoW Addiction Is Bullshit: Beat Your Kids, Or Do Something About It

sandip787 - 637 days 20 hours ago

cancel the damn account.
thatll hit em where it hurts

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kalel333 - 637 days 20 hours ago

HAHAH I agree I never get how parents complain about their children being addicted to video games . It's really not that hard to stop them from playing , just disconnect their internet ! Or better yet make their computers run on some open source OS lol

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Tempist - 637 days 20 hours ago

It all begins with the psychological training...

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sidar - 637 days 20 hours ago

" Beat Your Kids" its sad that this is the first thing that comes to his mind.

there are many, MANY ways to stop a kid from playing who's lost in an addiction.

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sandip787 - 637 days 20 hours ago

i dont think they were being serious when they said 'beat your child' but it does my head in when i see parents crying etc saying their child is addicted to WOW.
they are paying the subscription cost. they are paying the internet cost. they are paying for the electricity. they probably payed for the computer.
grow some damn balls and be more assertive. take the comp off them and restrict it. threaten to cancel the account. do measures like that.
im sure after the first month the kid will have realised that the sun and fresh air does not burn, and you can make real friends without raiding.

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gambare - 637 days 19 hours ago

Just don't pay their accounts, simple, many parents pay for their accounts and complain about how they spend their lives in the game but they have the power to forbid it.

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kapedkrusader - 637 days 19 hours ago

Why is it that when anyone suggests that parents should beat their kids, some people take it so personal (sidar)? Here are some reasons why people shouldn't be bothered:

1-Nobody is hitting your kids unless you do it.
2-If your a good kid , you won't get beat.
3-It's none of your business how people raise their kids.
4-Don't be ignorant to cultural differences.
5-Some kids are so disrespectful that anything short of an ass-whooping will not suffice to change their ways.
6-Many people suggest it because it worked on them, i.e., myself. I had a bad habit of stealing my friends G.I. Joe's. My mom found out, whooped my ass, never happened again.
7-A whooping doesn't mean beating kids out of anger or to a bloody pulp. It should be a controlled punishment. Other people should only
get involved if it becomes abuse.
8-I'll repeat this one because it so important...If your a good kid , you won't get beat.

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Skerj - 637 days 19 hours ago

Folks are losing common sense (which should be renamed), and control of their children. Then complain when their little bastards run wild all over the known earth doing who knows what to who knows whom. Then they complain or make excuses when we try to tell them what to do with the brats. I suggest we force all bad kids into a Lord of the Flies like situation, or Battle Royale. ..yeah Battle Royale worked well.

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kingme71 - 637 days 19 hours ago

This it a bit off topic, but reminded me of an interesting technique my friend's father used on them. When they were bad, they had to go across the street to the woods and find a switch (small stick that made like a whipping motion). They had to then sit in the rec room on a chair with the switch and wait for their father who took his own sweet time. By then they were crying so hard you would have thought they were being tortured. By the time their father came in he usually didn't even have to use the switch, he just scared them into being good.

Anyway, I don't really know what the point was, but I guarantee you I was the best behaved kid ever when I visited their house.

Too many parents are trying to be a friend to their kids and fear any recourse discipline might cause. the parent needs to be the authority in all situations even when kids "hate them" and wish they were never born and all the other phrases they lob at their parents.

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SynGamer - 637 days 19 hours ago

Simply put, it is bad parenting if your child is playing too many games. It isn't that hard to take the game console out of their room and lock it away for a while, or in the case of a computer, put the kid(s) on an account of their own and then as a parent using the admin account (with a password), restrict access to the game(s) until you see fit. Not that hard...

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Jinxstar - 637 days 19 hours ago

Most of the gamers I used to play WoW with were in their 20's... You didn't meet many people under 18...

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Groo - 637 days 18 hours ago

Woohoo!!!!!

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VirusE - 637 days 17 hours ago

Is it really that effing hard for people to just take some accountability? I love how all the bad parents who are to busy to watch their kids always blame how screwed up their children are on anything other than themselves. People should have to get a license to breed and you should have to have a minimum iq to get said license.

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BloodySinner - 637 days 17 hours ago

This was a well thought out video. It also pretty much gets the message clear. I love it.

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fopums - 637 days 16 hours ago

the title was worth my checking out, and yes its entirley under the parents control.

dont pay their bills for them, make them get a job, and guess what? they are getting out of the house more often and thus not addicted to a game...to a degree.

if they are not old enough to work, then they are not old enough for that kind of game anyway IMO...... all sorts of predators and criminals out there

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cjp4eva - 637 days 15 hours ago

I say take the Xbox 360 wrap it in a towel but leave the front plate uncovered so they can see their sweet asz console go up in flames :).

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Pain - 637 days 17 hours ago

best N4G post title ever.

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