«Help, my son is always on the Playstation!»

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Our pubescent son, 13, plays on his games console every free minute. He doesn't stick to agreements, so we always have to take the Playstation away from him. Which really gets him into a rage. How can we get the problem under control?
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  • Stefanie Rietzler is the mother of a son, psychologist and author ("Geborgen, mutig, frei", "Clever lernen"). Together with Fabian Grolimund, she runs the Academy for Learning Coaching in Zurich. www.mit-kindern-lernen.ch
  • Nicole Althaus, 51, is editor-in-chief of magazines and a member of the editorial board of "NZZ am Sonntag", columnist and author. She initiated and managed the mum blog on tagesanzeiger.ch and was editor-in-chief of "wir eltern". Nicole Althaus is the mother of two children aged 20 and 16.
  • Peter Schneider, 62, is a columnist, satirist, psychoanalyst, private lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Zurich and visiting professor for the history and scientific theory of psychoanalysis in Berlin. He is the father of an adult son.

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