Our opinion please - mom and a teenage boy vs studies and technology

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A warm hello to all the mylot moms ... and of course non-moms too. It's a welcome consolation that I've chanced upon joining this site. I am glad to read up on a whole lot of topics that both are of my interest and not. The abundance of archive discussions does though present to me far too many to refer back on and yet the opened topics and views of mother's work choices, food, health, and relationship and all the other goody bits of insights has encouraged me to post... I am eager to know how moms (and dads too) cope with their teenage kids (boys...as I have one myself) that find all the excuses to swing by us parents to get their way at playing Playstation, Xbox or online games instead of doing their studies. I may be running the risk of sounding old-fashioned or out-of-touch or maybe even trivial but do we (as parents) "run against the tide" with teenage kids where fun and games are pitted against their studies? I have heard myself once to many saying "Close that game first son and finish your studies!" Do we present ourselves less loving when we constantly remind them to study first or can we persevere in believing that they do not take their studies for granted as they may profess? Or is there something else? Tell me your opinions...