don't sweat the small stuff

"That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember." ~ Thomas Fuller

We are on weekend #1 of no video games for boy.  Our usual game playing schedule is that he can play on the weekends only; never during the week.  However, Super Mario has become such an insistent obsession that extreme measures needed to be taken in hopes of helping him become a little less obsessive over it.

So, a plan was formulated last Sunday to eliminate video games for the next 4 weeks....an absolute torturous idea for him.  The plan means there's no playing video games and no watching others playing video games.  He can still play with his Super Mario guys, can still make Mario scenes on paper and legos, but has a limited amount of time he can talk about Mario with us.

You have no idea how hard this is for him and it breaks my heart to see him so sad about it, but I swear the alternative will put us 30 years down the road with him living in our basement hooked on Mario with a Mario'esque mustache....shudder.

He needs to be able to function without being consumed by thoughts of Super Mario, Nintendo, and all of the characters that are included....we shall see what happens.