Child up all night playing Playstation!  

It seems that I jumped the gun in posting this discussion.

I had just been told the story by my my mum and was on here at the time, so I thought 'What a great discussion'...LOL

It turns out that my wife got up after I fell asleep and saw that he was crying.

He said he was scared so my wife put it on for him to calm him down and help him get to sleep. It turned out that he watched a movie through The Playstation as sometimes our DVD player does not work and we have to use The Playstation to watch them!

Haha!! Awww the poor lamb, bless him! That's so sweet what your wife did for him, what a star. At least you know he doesn't suffer from insomnia now lol.

Well, actually he probably does suffer from insomnia...in strange houses. Haha!

After speaking to his parents when they picked him up, it seems like this is a fairly common thing for him to do. Stay up late and then sleep all morning. He will have to get out of the habit fast as the six week break from school is over in two days time. A new school year is just about to begin!

Oh dear! I wouldn't like to be his neighbours on his first school day when he "kicks off!" That's what happens when parents give in to their kids (not like I'm an expert or anything) I don't even have any lol.

You are right, boundaries need to be set by parents, or the kids will never learn responsibility!

Thanks for the BR, it's much appreciated.

Thanks for your comment but it seems that I jumped the gun in posting this discussion and was wrong.

(See the comment that I left above for Janey)

He was not playing a game, but watching a movie. My mum did not know the difference as the movie had stopped and would have been on the menu screen.

Thanks for your thoughts.

I made a mistake though.

It seems that I jumped the gun in posting this discussion. (See the comment that I left above for Janey at number one in this discussion)

Thanks for your comments Jen. I made a mistake though. It seems that I jumped the gun in posting this discussion. (See the comment that I left above for Janey at number one in this discussion)

LOL, you sound like my son. He used to spend hours playing computer games at our friends homes before we had them ourselves.

It actually turned out that I was misinformed and it turned out that my wife put a DVD on for him to watch as he fell asleep as she got up after I went to sleep and found him scared. My mother thought it was a game as it was being played in the Playstation console and had stopped on the menu screen!

Next time I will have to find out ALL the facts before posting a discussion about it!

I agree with you that some kids have no respect for others when staying at someone else's house. We have had some really odd kids stay here over the years and I assumed this was more of the same when I was misinformed on what had happened.

It seems that I jumped the gun in posting this discussion.

It turned out that my wife got up after I fell asleep and saw that he was crying and that he was scared so she put a DVD on for him to calm him down and help him get to sleep.

It turned out that he watched a movie through The Playstation as sometimes our DVD player does not work and we have to use The Playstation to watch them!

Oh poor thing that is a totally different story then. Oh so he is not a rude kid. Nice to hear that. Take care!

Thanks, no he is not rude, but could do with some boundaries.

Hi Paula, thanks for your comments. We resisted getting one for years, but finally we got one after some friends of ours moved overseas and gave theirs to our kids along with most of their games! I had always enjoyed playing those games, so I had mixed feelings about getting one and so we ended up keeping it, but with rules that it was only for weekend use and never on a school day!

We now have a Nintendo Wii as well, but we were happier about that type of gaming console as the kids move around more playing the games and they can actually keep fit using them! Plus my son saved up for it himself!

I actually made a mistake though.
It seems that I jumped the gun in posting this discussion.

(See the comment that I left above for Janey at number one in this discussion)

It's good to have rules with it, that's for sure. My sister has a Wii and my daughter is begging for one, I am tempted because it's great fun, we've been dancing, singing, playing tennis, bowling...You name it, when we've visited and the whole family loves it so we may get that instead of a PlayStation when we can afford it!

Looks like the poor kid was not being rude at all, of well, he would have got away with it anyway, I think...

He is a pretty good kid although a bit too much of a free spirit for my liking, he needs some boundaries in my opinion. The Wii is much more of a whole family console in my opinion. I like the playstation games better, but the console is more of a personal thing and not as social.

Thanks for commenting. I agree with what you are saying but it actually turned out that I was misinformed and it turned out that my wife put a DVD on for him to watch as he fell asleep as she got up after I went to sleep and found him scared. My mother thought it was a game as it was being played in the Playstation console and had stopped on the menu screen.

Next time I will have to find out ALL the facts before posting a discussion about it!

Thanks for your kind comments.

I agree that it would have been rude to do that in someone else's home and that is why I was a little shocked at the time I had heard it, although I did find it a little amusing!

I have even sat up until all hours playing play-station as an adult, when I was in my mid twenties. Wow, I did not realise that certain games affected people with epilepsy like that.

Don't worry, we're all human. We all make miskates. (Joke) I have stayed up all night playing those mystery games where you have to find out all the extra clues...it kills me not to know whodunnit Yeah, when I was little, Nintendo was one thing I played A LOT, until I was diagnosed with Epilepsy and literally had a controller ripped out of my hand. I was very young when it happened. I remember my biological fathers' mother coming in a room where I was playing Nintendo and she took the controller away and said "Her official diagnosis is Epilepsy. She can't play this and she has to take pills." Years later when PlayStation came out, my biological father made a big deal about how the patterns are different and okay for someone with Epilepsy to play. However, it's not well-advertised that it is alright for us, which is a shame, because it's true that we're okay. Although, there's still certain games on PlayStations that probably are not okay to watch. If the patterns, colors, and flashing are similar to things like Mario, then it's a no-go, but if the animation is say, more like Tony Hawk, I'd be alright because the flashing is minimal. Watching Nintendo games is like putting someone like me in front of a strobe light, watching PlayStation does nothing. I'm thankful for that. That way, I can still play video games. I have not been defeated. Bwahaha. [em]thumbsup[/em]

The thumbs defeated me on myLot!!