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[quote=Anonymous]We have teen daughters, so we have never encountered this before. We have been watching our teen niece and 10-year-old nephew this week with my bil and sil on a trip.

Niece has been totally fine. Nephew, who I thought was the sweetest and kindest boy ever, has shown a disturbing side of him. The first day I picked him up from school he complained that he wasn't feeling well. He said he didn't feel like he should go to his sports practice at 5 p.m. We go to our house for a snack before practice and he beelines for our theater room. I catch him in there playing video games. Sick, huh? His parents claim he's only allowed to play 30 minutes total per school day.

I made him turn off the game after 20 or so minutes so we could leave for practice. He was raging mad in the car. Again, he's only 10 years old. After practice he continues with the sick routine in the car to our house.

That night he finishes his homework beelines to play video games again. I can hear the friends (?) he's playing with discussing their vivid strategies to lie to their parents to pretend they're sick or injured so they can stay home and play video games all day!

The next morning he lays it on super thick that he's nauseous and pretends he can't breakfast because eat he's so sick. Lying to my face to coerce me into letting him stay home all day (so he could play video games).

This is extremely concerning behavior, right?[/quote]

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