Parents are exhausting their children. An eighth-grade boy explains how
Its all about a balancing act.  My 14 year old son spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on his PC.  We don&#x27;t often chew him out for that, but when he ignores routine chores or homework assignments in preference for gaming, then we bring the hammer down.<p>The fact is, a lot of kids are terrible at time management and prioritisation.  It is our job as parents to try and teach those skills.  Quite often, that ends up with us having to excessively be the &#x27;bad cop&#x27;.<p>As much as the kid in the OP&#x27;s story eloquently described his pent up feelings, I can say that I experience the same sort of rage (complete with balled up fist) when I walk into the house to see an overflowing trash bin in the kitchen, dirty laundry scattered around the living room, front driveway still full of leaves (all my younger son&#x27;s designated daily chores) and I hear the steady gunfire of CoD coming from his room.