His demands for video games include punches…
Where’s GTA?!
A friend of mine is lucky (and sometimes unlucky, depending on how you look at it) to have a younger brother. They are 14 or so years apart and she practically raised him doing her best to ensure he had a great childhood complete with visits to the beach, park, aquarium, space centre and of course different video games whenever he wanted. But like all teenage boys, ‘raising them’ isn’t enough to keep them from tantrums or demands.
In his first year in High school, he’s doing quite well. He gets good grades and has many friends but it’s High School, not always a ‘fun experience’. He spends a lot of his free time on Xbox Live and playing his Xbox 360 games to ‘escape’ from stress of school.
The other day my friend asked to borrow my copy of Grand Theft Auto 4. I already knew it wasn’t for her as she’s not much of a gamer. She said her brother has been asking her to rent it for him but she owes fees at the video rental store and didn’t want to spend money on clearing them yet. She told him she would try to borrow it from a friend but my copy is already being lent out so I wasn’t able to help her out.
Later during the week she told me her brother gave her a really hard time when she neglected to find a copy of the game for him. He even punched her arm because she had disappointed him by not following through with his request. Now, that’s pushing it.
Spoiled? Uh-huh.
Grand Theft Auto isn’t really a game a 13 year old boy should be playing, especially if it’s a 13 year old boy who doesn’t have a problem with hitting to get his way. I advised her not to get him the game. She can’t let him force her to do things for him by hitting her and swearing. GTA wouldn’t exactly be a good influence on him either. But then, maybe he can take out his rages in the virtual world instead of the real one.
The next time I saw my friend she said he now wanted Resident Evil 5…oh and he is still waiting for her to get GTA 4.
