breaking an addiction

fruit salad · Post by **fruit salad** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:49 pm

Midget man! Curling not a sport? Have you ever tried even ice skating, let alone wielding a brush or a stone on an ice rink? I had a similar attitude to football until I actually tried it for a couple of days.

For a minute there Doodles, I thought you were saying you were up all night actually curling, and was going to say that that isn't an addiction, that's a healthy pastime!

doodles · Post by **doodles** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:52 pm

Fruit salad have to confess looking at the website for our local rink (or whatever it's called) and chickened out!!!! Quite fancy it but not sure I could bend that far.

As far as DS's are concerned PS addiction seems to have burned itself out at the mo. It seems to go in stages ...... long may it last. Bike maintenance is on the agenda for the weekend and hopefully that will stimulate a bike riding addiction for a while - good for me too!!!!

Midget Man · Post by **Midget Man** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:59 pm

fruit salad wrote:Midget man! Curling not a sport? Have you ever tried even ice skating, let alone wielding a brush or a stone on an ice rink? I had a similar attitude to football until I actually tried it for a couple of days.

For a minute there Doodles, I thought you were saying you were up all night actually curling, and was going to say that that isn't an addiction, that's a healthy pastime!

I am now picturing you practising in front of the tv Doodles

Tolstoy · Post by **Tolstoy** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 2:56 pm

I keep turning the olympics on in the evening hoping to catch something good and all I seem to get is the curling Doodle's but I don't want it

Maybe it is me that is addicted as I thought Doodles was talking about the Mario version

. Too much of the wrong sort of Olympics going on here me thinks.

surreydad2010 · Post by **surreydad2010** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:05 pm

Also have 2DS's one who is a total nightmare with COD and the other who can take it or leave it.

Rules are - schooldays (inc fridays) one hour each and only after homework has been done. Weekends 2 hours each per day.

After my nightmare addicted DS threw a total wobbly a few months ago we totally banned the PS3 for a week and then he was allowed back onto it but no COD until he could show he was responsible.
It's still hard today and he has the odd tantrum but we are just firm with him and work through it, he knows if he "kicks off" about it then he loses the next days session - that seems to focus his mind. Plus we make sure we do more as a family, watch movies etc, rather than use the PS3 as a babysitter - we are to blame just as much for it getting out of hand by not controlling it at the start.