[OT] Ben Stein and Evercrack

[Krug]

http://www.etonline.com/television/a12770.htm

Boy look at the questions: You said that you felt there was a demon inside your son?

Yes, girls and boys, we know what track the interviewer is going down...

 

[Fast Learner]

Because he's a bad parent and couldn't handle his son being unhappy with him, as he very nearly admits.

 

[WizarDru]

Because he's a bad parent and couldn't handle his son being unhappy with him, as he very nearly admits.

A bad parent wouldn't have stopped him from playing something that he obviously wasn't equipped to handle. How do you handle this sort of thing with your kids?

 

[Samnell]

BEN: I felt there was a demon of addiction to EverQuest that was connected with some demonic quality of the game

I was almost able to take him seriously until that point. Some demonic quality in the game? Yeah, and you know steam tunnels aren't far behind.

 

[Samnell]

A bad parent wouldn't have stopped him from playing something that he obviously wasn't equipped to handle. How do you handle this sort of thing with your kids?

I think that sending the kid to boarding school 3000 miles away is really, really extreme when the problem could have been handled by uninstalling the game and/or taking away the modem.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Not really. I think what it does is show us something about Ben Stein. His son needed more than to just have his computer taken from him. His son would have just spent all his time at his friends or done something similar to get around the problem.

What his son needed was a father who could spend time with him. Ben though didnt have time to be a Dad, so instead he shipped his son off to a school that could watch his son 24/7 and keep him off the game because Ben was too busy or not interested enough to put that much effort into his son himself.

I think that sending the kid to boarding school 3000 miles away is really, really extreme when the problem could have been handled by uninstalling the game and/or taking away the modem.

 

[Samnell]

What his son needed was a father who could spend time with him. Ben though didnt have time to be a Dad, so instead he shipped his son off to a school that could watch his son 24/7 and keep him off the game because Ben was too busy or not interested enough to put that much effort into his son himself.

That works for me too.

 

[BOZ]

evercrack it is, but do we really need "concerned moms" trying to shut it down? (bad news for the RPG industry if they succeed, cuz you know where the next stop is). you know once they get the celebrities talking, that's trouble.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

I think the interviewer was asking some leading questions. Stien's answers seem more objective.

That said, I had a TV limit when I was kid and I intend to place the same kind of TV/comptuer limits on any kids I may have. This stuff is habit forming ... as my post count will testify.

 

[Numion]

A bit strange that the father makes it sound like the kid was somehow forced to game, that he didn't like gaming. But anyways, why didn't they just rather get rid of the inet connection. Instead they got rid of the son. Good parenting.