Honestly? Because I knew this game would be a problem. H has been gearing S5 up for it for months. As S5 gets older, I can see this being a 'thing'. Father and son will stay up as late as they can possibly get away with to play these stupid games. It's obsessive and it will continue to be a problem as S5 gets older. When he's a teenager, I can see him and H staying up until all hours of the night just like H did with his friends when he was in high school. The thing is, it didn't work out so well for H. The kinds of people that are obsessive about those
When you first posted about H's obsession with the game, your thoughts were about the seeming extremes H goes to with buying pieces for the game and posting on a site about the game. I was suggesting to let that be and accept it, without attaching your value judgments and other scenarios to it (S's bedtime issue is not about the game H has an interest in). Just as you have an interest in karate, and if you frequented a site about it, and went to karate conventions and went out and purchased supplies for your interest or whatever. I'll ask you to see it as a separate interest of his that he's entitled to, pure and simple, and not justify why karate is better than a board game.
In your quote above, you're projecting into the future, based on your evident bias against this game, and making judgments about the types of people who play this game.
Not really, I just had a bad day emotionally.
Perhaps H picked up on that atmosphere but took it personally and assumed negatives about it? I don't know, I don't live in your pocket. If you don't mind, we could set up surveillance cameras and document all your interactions and send them to Dr. Phil for analysis, which I say jokingly, but it's not a bad idea, is it?
Like I said, he was nice the day of his surgery and he's retreated since then.
The day of surgery he was vulnerable and needed care, Mummy.
