A father punishes his son to play 17 hours straight after catching him playing when he shouldn’t

A father from the Chinese city of Shenzhen has imposed a harsh and reprehensible punishment his 11-year-old son after catching him playing mobile when he shouldn’t be doing it: to try to give him a lesson, the father forced his son to play mobile for 17 hours. According to what the child himself recounted in a letter in English, her father came to wake him up while he was sleeping so that he could continue playing and even I recorded him to post his reaction on Douyin, a Chinese social network similar to TikTok.

A harsh punishment for playing

“I woke up several times throughout the day. From 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., “says the boy in a handwritten letter echoed by the British newspaper Daily Mail. “I’ve played for 17 hours”. Apparently, the father took pity on his son when he asked him crying to please allow him to stop playing. Subsequently, he offered him a new agreement limiting the hours of play on the mobile, the platform on which the boy was playing “a little WeChat game”instant messaging application that also has social mini-games.