<p>Hi, so I have a younger brother in middle school who enjoys playing games. 'Enjoys' would be more of an understatement, really - he's OBSESSED. And I mean obsessed, in that he plays at least three hours per school day, nine hours per day on the weekends, to the point that he's barely doing his homework, getting so many missing assignments at school that my parents constantly have to ask the teacher what's going on. What's more, just taking the computer away from him won't work; he would probably die without games, and I mean literally die of a fit of anger. It scares me so badly, and I can't do anything about it. No one else close will do anything about it either; my own relatives won't help us. He's getting more and more unmanageable, rebelling against my parents and no longer treating them as parents. And the stress of managing all this is starting to take a toll on everyone involved; I can't bear to watch, and I need to find a solution. Please, someone, anyone, please give me some advice and suggestions because I don't know where else to find it anymore.</p>
<p>Maybe try and sit down with him when he does his homework…Slowly reduce the amount of video games he plays each week. Like let him play 8 instead of 9 and then down to 7 and so on</p>
<p>If he wants to become a video game designer or something like that one day, it may be ok for him to play lots of video games, as long as he can manage to get his homework done and he’s playing a better variety of games than just CoD all day long. Perhaps rather than limiting his time to play games, just make him finish his homework before he starts.</p>