To decide what to do, we have to examine our own deepest held convictions and act accordingly, regardless of how we are viewed by others, including our children. We are raising four boys without video games or television. I understand this to mean that he feels odd without the electronic entertainment his classmates devour. That he feels odd moves me not one wit. We have a firm reason for the position we have taken.
Electronic entertainment stifles creative thinking.
Psychologists have commented that children lack social skills because they play one on one with the game, not with each other. Our children must develop the ability to make life decisions based on values they have learned from people who love them, based on accurate information about the world around them, critical and creative thinking skills honed throughout the years of childhood, and social skills and truths learned from people, not machines. That morning, we were occupied nearby while our child played his new game in the family room. Not fifteen minutes later, we found him unconscious on the floor. He was unable to talk, and was totally limp in our arms.