If they are passing their classes, I wouldn’t worry about it. Many smart people were addicted to video games at some point.
Let them encounter the consequences of their actions and make decisions. If you keep pushing they will grow to not like being around you.
This guy (Frank Niu) isn’t the best but he was addicted to a game, overcame it on his own and went on to get a job in tech.[1]
Complete guess but I’m thinking your child goes to berkeley and I know plenty of smart people who go to berkeley who are addicted to something or another.
They still have 6 more years of brain development left and you have to let them figure out their life on their own.
3.0 is also an (above) average GPA at a public with grade deflation. If you are going to take drastic measures (please don’t), please consider taking them after they fail a few classes.
I personally was addicted to video games (in a similar manor to your child) but I made it out with 0 intervention. I realized that playing video games doesn’t make me happy and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life following what I truly wanted to do. You can’t convince your child of this on your own. Your child has to become self-motivated and likely already knows it’s a problem.
I updated my comment a bit with other stuff, so you can check that out.
Out of the schools you mentioned only berkely has an EECS program (that I know of). I think you might of used just CS if it was another school. The roblox games also kind of give me berkely vibes. You also used they/them pronouns to describe your child, though that was not a good or conscience reason, it might of slightly affected my biases in retrospect.
I also know gaming addicts that go to berkeley (although I know a lot of people that go to berkeley in general).
Other than the first reason, I can’t really explain it, which is why it was a complete guess.
Let them encounter the consequences of their actions and make decisions. If you keep pushing they will grow to not like being around you.
This guy (Frank Niu) isn’t the best but he was addicted to a game, overcame it on his own and went on to get a job in tech.[1]
Complete guess but I’m thinking your child goes to berkeley and I know plenty of smart people who go to berkeley who are addicted to something or another.
They still have 6 more years of brain development left and you have to let them figure out their life on their own.
3.0 is also an (above) average GPA at a public with grade deflation. If you are going to take drastic measures (please don’t), please consider taking them after they fail a few classes.
I personally was addicted to video games (in a similar manor to your child) but I made it out with 0 intervention. I realized that playing video games doesn’t make me happy and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life following what I truly wanted to do. You can’t convince your child of this on your own. Your child has to become self-motivated and likely already knows it’s a problem.
[1] https://www.tiktok.com/@frankniu/video/7293695619519073541