Father Brown
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- Dołączono
- 29 Maj 2020
I think it's a kind of novel issue, or at least it's novel in how common it's become. The big issue is that it's a problem that really needs to be tackled earlier; when the kid is 13 or 14 not when he's 22. The problem here is then two-fold, firstly they don't realize that a 13 year old kid with an introverted disposition spending all his time playing video games is likely to turn out very badly and secondly, it's consequences are so delayed that it becomes easy to ignore the issue even if it does trouble you. After all, what's the harm if he doesn't leave his room this summer? Nothing in the short run, but in practice fixing the issue becomes progressively more difficult and consequently doesn't get solved unless the kid solves it.I see so many posts from parents online saying things like ‘my 22 year old son has never had a job and dropped out of college and does nothing but play vidya gaem all day!’ Psychologists are making money off ‘failure to launch’ treatment programs. What’s the deal?
I think there's a sort of boomer logic at work as well, where some parents just sort of believe that you're not really meant to do anything as a parent in terms of guiding or 'apprenticing' them into the world. Some parents seem to be genuinely shocked that despite having done nothing that this thing happened to them and their child.