-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to All on 31-Jan-2015 16:07 <=-   
      
    DAG> Despite being amazingly resilient for everything   
    DAG> that he's been through, it seems like the last two years of   
    DAG> intermittent homelessness are finally starting to have a behavior   
    DAG> effect upon him.    
      
   I suspect it's less the transientness in any case.  Some of it may just   
   be age-related.  And, as you mentioned (both in the part I snipped and   
   below) the video games probably do have somewhat to do with it as well.   
      
    DAG> Things got better for awhile, when I was with my fiancee, as   
    DAG> spring hit. He had to change schools _during that one school year_ four   
    DAG> times, so that certainly didn't help anything.  However, he met another   
    DAG> bi-racial kid that lived just one apartment down from us at his school.   
    DAG> So although he got a few more videogames than I would like, he really   
    DAG> did spend a huge amount of times with his friend and other friends from   
    DAG> the school outside playing.    
      
   Having a compatible friend makes a lot of difference... how long were   
   you able to stay where he had the friends?   
      
    DAG> However he suffered a bit of verbal abuse, and definitely neglect,   
    DAG> from my fiancee when I was working, which I later found out about.    
      
   Sigh... not what he needed, for sure.   
      
    DAG> Since I've moved here, things have gone   
    DAG> downhill a bit.  There were starting to be some behavioral changes, at   
    DAG> this point, due to the 'addictive' nature of video games, and how they   
    DAG> activate the same brain instant-reward pathways as any sort of   
    DAG> stimulant drug does.  You can tell.  :|  You could tell last year, but   
    DAG> it wasn't even really a problem yet. The main problem in this area   
    DAG> is the fact that no other parents seem to give much of a shit about   
    DAG> getting their children out to play with others here. 'Helicopter   
    DAG> parenting' is in full effect.    
      
   And without friends to get out and play with, there is more incentive to   
   occupy oneself with the video games, too...     
      
   ttyl        neb   
      
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