An 11-year-old boy in Shenzhen, China; who is addicted to mobile games, was punished by his father and forced to play with his phone for 17 hours straight, according to ET Today.
The father, Huang, said in a video that he shared on Douyin, that he discovered his son secretly playing mobile games at 1.30am last Wednesday.
He then told his son that he would let him play to his heart’s content but he is not allowed to sleep, and about 6 hours later (7.30am), his son was still very alert and continued gaming.
So Huang wrote in to the boy’s school teacher and requested the day off, as his son continued to play on his mobile phone.
However, the boy soon fell asleep at about 1.30pm after 12 hours of gaming, and Huang then woke the boy up and told him to continue with his gaming.
The father said that his goal was to make his son play mobile games for 24 hours since he liked playing so much.
Later that day at about 6.30pm, after 17 hours straight of mobile gaming, the boy begged his father for forgiveness and promised not to play games before sleeping in future.
Huang said in another Douyin video that he chose to punish his son like his because the boy has a high level of fitness, as well as good grades and is obedient.