Mom calls 911 over son's gaming habit

What's his Joystiq handle?

This article is totally irresponsible and Completely misses the point.

What everyone wants to know was weather he was playing it on an XBOX360 or PS3.

Obviously one promotes excellent gaming and social skills while the OTHER is a bastion of evil perverting kids.

Well, it was obviously a joke. When was the last time you heard of someone playing the original Grand Theft Auto?

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If that was my kid I'd beat the shit out that little motherfucker.

I'M THE BOSS, BITCH!

Man I miss those days when you could just smack your kids if they were being fucktards.

All the replys here are hilarious. Yeah, beat your kid. Then your ass will go to jail for child abuse. The mother was a fucking idiot for not bringing her child up properly. You have to set boundries. You cant just let your kid run riot then one day think" Why isnt he listening to me!?" God, news like this makes me lose faith in humanities intelligence

lmfao @ Markez's reference

Instructions in disciplining your kid(s) properly:

1. Lay down the law: Setup rules and regulations for your children when they are home on the weekends or come back from school. Ex. hour and a half of game playing a day excluding weekends. For television let them watch it after all their studies are done, and double check to see if they have the right answers.

2. Monitor there actions: when they aren't doing the above they're probably outside playing or they might be home bodies inside playing something.

3. Make sure there clean: when kids get dirty, they start smelling as well, especially when puberty hits. Clean teeth is a great thing.

4. Family time. a family game night is a good way to develop a good relationship. With every family member.

sounds to me like that kid should have gotten a good west indian beating years ago.

you'd be amazed how effective clarting someone with a dutch-pot can be as a parenting tool.

It was just a joke... Who even plays the original Grand Theft Auto any more? geeeze.

Oh, FFS...

There are a lot of comments suggesting spanking/hitting/disciplining, or whatever euphemism for abuse.

I am not surprised that every single person advocating child abuse was hit themselves as a child.

A child is not a piece of property that you can abuse. A child has the right to loving parents. If your friend came up and started hitting you, you would not say thanks for loving me. Hitting is not love, no matter what the intent or flawed logic attempting to abdicate oneself from the truth that hitting is abuse. In fact, children are more abused and less protected than pets are. Society and individuals need to change and realize just because it happened to you does not make it ok.

As for this case of the mother calling the police on her 14 year old son. Well, their relationship is seriously messed up. It took a long series of poor decisions by the mother on how to relate to her child to get to that point. To suggest that hitting or disciplining her son would have improved their relationship is ridiculous. Go try improving any relationship you have in life by trying to hit or coerce that person, whether your boss, employee, friend, spouse, significant other, stranger, etc. Hitting will only hurt your relationship and cause fear.

Many of you want children to fear their parents. Why would you ever want a child to fear the ones who are supposed to love and protect him?

Building a real relationship takes respecting the boundaries of the other person. Most people rarely respect the real needs and boundaries of children. Most parents think their own boundaries are the only ones that count.

Children are not born wild or little devils. New babies come into the world biologically designed to love and bond with their parents, and depend on their love and support to help orient themselves in the world. Children naturally interpret the way their parents treat them as for their own good whether it is hitting/coercing/discipling/humiliating or respecting/understanding/talking. When you become an independent adult you have the freedom to question your parents behavior and decide for yourself if it was right.

Most of you are not independent-thinking adults. If your parents hit or disciplined you, then you parrot/advocate the same treatment of current and future children. Maybe you can discover your own independent thoughts and feelings, and separate yourself from your entanglement to your parents so that you can question your own history.

Unquestioned traditions in raising children is bad for everyone. Improvement in child rearing takes courage to question the past. Or maybe you'd like to live somewhere where they still mutilate children's genitals for "tradition"?

This reminds me of the time a few years ago when my brother called the cops on me for not sharing the cookies, I bought, with him

its kinda related but still
this is abusing the police, i mean what if their was an actual crime or something going on, and they had to divert cops to deal with a child, someone deserves a beating... both of them!

If this "kid," is 35, and living at his mother's house, both have a bigger problem than his playing video games!

I play gta a lot and it doesn't turn me into a smartass, disobedient kid. Parents are always trying to find a reason their kids do not listen to them but the truth of the matter is that teenagers just don't always listen ha. It isn't because of video games. Also, 2:30 am is not that late, I am pretty sure most kids stay up past then.

yeah srsly. no one wants to raise their own kids anymore. just take it away from him, spank him, and send him to bed for being a jerk. but i'm guessing if you were actually a good parent to begin with then your kid would listen to you without it going that far.

Lol, this just had to be related to gaming.. the same situation could have taken place if the child didn't, for example, want to go to bed. The parenting skills of that mother are basically obsolete, calling the police because the child is failing to obide by the rules is pathetic.