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Mom and Daughter addicted to Halo..at my wit’s end. HELP!?

  • Posted on August 30, 2010 at 10:22 am

Sorry this is so long..
My 15 year old daughter started playing Halo on XBox Live a few months ago. Ever since then, things have just gone downhill. It would be easy enough just to shut the game down but the problem is my mother. She lives in my house and I have supported her for 7 years. She used to watch my kids while I worked until I was laid off in January, since then I have been at home. Any way, my mom sits there with my daughter for the entire DAY (I am not joking) and instructs my daughter to say this and that and talk to this boy, say that to this boy, etc. etc. I feel my mom is living vicariously. I thought it was a passing phase until they would get up at 8am on non school days and literally stay on that thing on the couch, barely moving until 1 or 2am. In the meantime, it has been a daily struggle trying to keep the sound down. I have a 3 year old boy with special needs (sensory disorder) that is acting out the stress caused by the constant gun and death noise. Those two (mom and daughter) sit on the couch all day and one of them might get up to get food but mostly they barely eat.
Last week came to a head when my mother (totally without permission!!) took my daughter on a week long trip to go meet a boy that they met on Halo!!!!!! I called the cops and was told I could not do much since she was in the custody of my mom and was old enough to decide that. It was an awful week. They came back 2 nights ago and asked me to come pick them up from the train station. I wanted to leave them there but it’s still my daughter. I told them there are new rules in the house, this has got to stop. So what did they do?? They dragged the entire tv (flat screen and all!) console into my mom’s room and locked the door.
I am at my wit’s end. I don’t know what to do at all. This is beyond crazy. My daughter until now was a bright kid who was doing well in her online school, making A’s and B’s..she is an awesome artist and used to spend lots of time drawing and sketching. Every year for the last few years she would enter her artwork at Comic-Con for sale..this year she did not one thing. I got her final report card this week and she was failing 3 classes!!!
I am at my wit’s end and the stress is taking a toll on me. I could deal with it better except my mom is there every second of every day to “protect” her grandkid from this evil mom that is trying to “keep her from having friends”.
help, please.

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Mom and Daughter addicted to Halo..at my wit’s end. HELP!?

  • Posted on July 31, 2010 at 1:19 am

My 15 year old daughter started playing Halo on XBox Live a few months ago. Ever since then, things have just gone downhill. It would be easy enough just to shut the game down but the problem is my mother. She lives in my house and I have supported her for 7 years. She used to watch my kids while I worked until I was laid off in January, since then I have been at home. Any way, my mom sits there with my daughter for the entire DAY (I am not joking) and instructs my daughter to say this and that and talk to this boy, say that to this boy, etc. etc. I feel my mom is living vicariously. I thought it was a passing phase until they would get up at 8am on non school days and literally stay on that thing on the couch, barely moving until 1 or 2am. In the meantime, it has been a daily struggle trying to keep the sound down. I have a 3 year old boy with special needs (sensory disorder) that is acting out the stress caused by the constant gun and death noise. Those two (mom and daughter) sit on the couch all day and one of them might get up to get food but mostly they barely eat.
Last week came to a head when my mother (totally without permission!!) took my daughter on a week long trip to go meet a boy that they met on Halo!!!!!! I called the cops and was told I could not do much since she was in the custody of my mom and was old enough to decide that. It was an awful week. They came back 2 nights ago and asked me to come pick them up from the train station. I wanted to leave them there but it’s still my daughter. I told them there are new rules in the house, this has got to stop. So what did they do?? They dragged the entire tv (flat screen and all!) console into my mom’s room and locked the door.
I am at my wit’s end. I don’t know what to do at all. This is beyond crazy. My daughter until now was a bright kid who was doing well in her online school, making A’s and B’s..she is an awesome artist and used to spend lots of time drawing and sketching. Every year for the last few years she would enter her artwork at Comic-Con for sale..this year she did not one thing. I got her final report card this week and she was failing 3 classes!!!
I am at my wit’s end and the stress is taking a toll on me. I could deal with it better except my mom is there every second of every day to “protect” her grandkid from this evil mom that is trying to “keep her from having friends”.
help, please.

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