Every kid watches YouTube it seems. When my son meets a new friend they are instantly talking either about YouTube or Fortnight(my son never played fortnight, but he sure knows a lot about it and wants it). My son is grounded half the time from electronics. For a week or two he won’t play any video games or watch YouTube. He becomes a great kid after a few days of whining about it. We have a good time and he doesn’t instigate arguments, he’s much more respectful...just a great kid. Then he earns back his electronics. Sometimes I’m at work and I come home and my son is a jerk, and I know he must have been watching YouTube or playing video games. There is that much of a difference. If I take electronics from him, he’ll seriously be one of like 10 kids in the entire US who live in the ice age era and don’t watch YouTube or play video games. A less extreme idea is letting him play games once a week, but no YouTube. He is a complete jerk when he watches YouTube. All the time. He’s almost 10. Why do so many parents let their kids spend their lives on electronics when it ruins them? My kid can’t be the only one who is so different with and without electronics.
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You two need to have a serious talk about this matter. If he understands that his attitude and behavior don't improve he'll have no further electronic recreation. This is too simple to fret over. If eating strawberries gave him a rash, you'd never feed him strawberries.
Wow, that's almost like a Pavlovian Dog syndrome. He is conditioned to become a certain way when he is watching something. Why not appeal to his pride and tell him he acts like a conditioned dog when he watches Youtube videos, and that he needs to become more than just a dog and act like a properly intelligent human. Tell him that you're going to call him "Rover" during those times that he's a conditioned dog.
Maybe, I don't know, I'm only a kid.
He'll get better when he turns 20 and gets a job.