“My son is on the computer all the time. He’ll start as soon as...

“My son is on the computer all the time. He’ll start as soon as he gets home from school and goes until bedtime. It’s some sort of adventure game involving teamwork. He wears a headset and plays with his friends. His goal was to go outside more this summer but that hasn’t happened. Maybe I enabled him. I held off on getting him a phone and computer, but at some point every other kid has got one. And you don’t want him to fall behind with technology. He’s a good kid. His grades are pretty good. His teachers love him. He’s very polite. He helps his mother. I just wish he’d apply his interest in games to other things. He was in science club, but he quit that. He took some Tae Kwon Do lessons, but he quit that. I thought maybe coding classes would interest him because he loves being on the computer, but that didn’t work either. I also played video games as a kid. But we’d just beat a few levels of Mario, and then we’d get a call to come outside. But that doesn’t happen anymore. Because the person who’d normally call you is on the other end of the headset.”