Been there, sorry. Not just computers, for me. Bicycle usage, music-listening, homework-force, freedom-to-be-somewhere-else, LOTS of my enjoyments were strictly rationed or used as weaponry. I spent most of my childhood getting ordered-around, or getting grounded to room or yard, or placed in-the-corner for many many hours. Trying to have a say… was considered “lip” or “talking back” and was met with a slap up-side the head, or other good fun.
I was punished-for/belittled-over struggling with Algebra, and since my father refused to buy me car or motorcycle insurance without “good student discount”… he also rationed (eliminated) my social life/dating… due to repeated D’s and F’s in math subjects (love them caste-like “gradings”). Dating/visiting friends… when living in deep forest lands… is nearly impossible without a vehicle of some kind. I had a go-cart. It was my best friend and escape partner, but its gas-can was carefully rationed and I was often grounded-off-it… for punishment of some kind. Mobility denial/rationing == imprisonment. Good fun (a nightmare).
The father-son wars eventually got me forced-into the military or reform school (My choice. What a WIDE range of choices, eh? Marching-to-orders school, or marching-to-orders school). I chose the military, because “earning my keep thru orders-following” would make my father happier. I wasn’t damaging his money coffers anymore, which is what caused much of his anger. He was VERY afraid-of (terrorized-by) “not making ends meet”… justifiably so. My father’s “job” didn’t pay very much in the remote woods of northern Wisconsin.
Although that style of parenting is slowly leaving (it happens mostly in monetary-struggling families), it is still a continued practice in the USA and far from forgotten. Around this area of the USA (Beerville)… mix-in alcoholism with the strict (and sometimes angry) parent… and you have child abuse (and spousal abuse) galore. Few want to think/talk about that… even though it is widespread. Yay USA.
How’s that for a purse-dump?
Good luck on your competition! Try to get them to change it to a “cooperation” next year… less losers. Losing, or being well-labeled as a loser, is not mentally healthy for anyone, in my opinion. I hope you get to eventually prove yourself worthy of less strictness/rules (gain non-loser status). You can quote this to your strict parent(s):
“Givo is doing more than just playing games on his/her computer. Givo is also learning 3D, which is a marvelous technology that should serve Givo wonderfully, in many future avenues. Along with this 3D, comes learning of Math, JS, HTML, CSS, social skills, multi-culturalism, lots more… all of which are leading-edge ‘essentials’. Givo is quite astute in these subjects, and is progressing at a high rate.”
Read that to your parent(s). It’s truth… imho.
(like I have any credentials worthy-of convincing your parents that my words have credence.)
I better get back-onto BJS subjects.
How 'bout that stencil buffer, eh? Ain’t that just something? (Wingy glances-around cautiously.)
I’m still standing in the corner… in many ways. My go-cart has been denied gas for 45 years, and I haven’t seen it since I waved goodbye on the bus ride to USAF basic training. (sniff) It had a stretched chassis (adult-sized)… so my parents likely rode it around for a while, and then sold it… to get more money. I’d drive 1000 miles right now… to find it… at whatever junk pile it now resides-within, and thank it with a kiss… for the MANY escapes it helped me accomplish.
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