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Addicted to the Xbox

It’s the same problem every night in the Marnell household.

Mum Melanie comes home from work to find her sons Darren, 16, and Jack, 11, glued to their Xboxes. Her boys play console games for four to six hours a day and get stroppy and argumentative when told to stop.