In numerous posts and articles online, they complain that the game is taking over their children's lives, that they become irritated when they aren't playing it, they neglect homework, chores, even going to the toilet, to keep on playing.
Jim Glover, the principal, said he missed school, neglected homework and performed poorly, but was not violent.
Playing every day, devoting long periods of time, sacrificing other activities, neglecting homework and moodiness… the last two may describe many of our children, but Byron suggests that where four or more of these factors exist there may be cause for concern and need for intervention.
He or she lets the kids get away with not doing chores or neglecting homework, or lets them watch video games all night or lets them eat what they please when they please.
Talking about teenagers who take jobs after school to buy a car, he complains that "as more and more kids work to get their own wheels, fewer participate in after-school sports and activities"; "they stay at their jobs late into the night, neglect their homework and come to school exhausted".
And all this for a boy who rarely neglects his homework.
He should be bringing home a pound a week for his parents, Orwell says, not stuffing himself into silly uniforms and being caned for neglecting his homework.
Trouble is, they were enjoying themselves so much they turned up at initial sessions for album two having neglected their homework.
However, last week, Kim's parents scolded her for goofing off too much and neglecting her homework.
I went home and spent most of the night (to the neglect of my undergraduate homework) in producing the first chromosome map, which included the sex linked genes y, w, v, m, and r, in the order and approximately the relative spacing that they still appear on the standard maps.
I went home and spent most of the night (to the neglect of my undergraduate homework) in producing the first chromosome map, which included the sex linked genes y, w, v, m, and r, in the order and approximately the relative spacing that they still appear on the standard maps (Sturtevant, pg. 47, History of Genetics, 1965).
