having been an unruly 15 year old, in a similar position with my parents (i.e., wilfully agreeing to remove distractions so as to actually pass at school), i commend what's being done here. this is not being forced upon him, this is a solution that's been worked out with the son.
yeah, it's not ideal, what's ideal is that he's not distracted and is able to do his homework. but ,to quote a higher source, if the eye causes you to sin, cut it out and throw it away. i'm not suggesting that this should be the way it goes with everything, nor am i suggesting that we should all take that advice literally, but in this case (from what i understand) this is something that the son knows is a weakness of his, and the only way he can see of moving forwards is by completely removing the problem. now if this isn't self discipline, i don't know what is. hopefully, in years to come, he'll be less distracted when he needs to get things done, without having to completely disable his distraction, based on the habits that he learned here.
perhaps i was overreacting. but i can really identify with the problem, and comments like this
Just tell him to stay off the $#%ing computer.
and like the image posted not long ago, really get me fired up. although it's as simple as that for a lot of people, and that's how a lot of people learn, that method didn't work for me, nor can you expect that it will work for everyone, especially (and this is what really got me going) when the OP said this in the very. first. post.
