The dad's solution sounds like a great idea for the most part and it's a fairly passive way to push the kid to do something different. Though in some places it wouldn't work as well. At least that would be the case in some places in Japan with Hikkomori children.
Basically in Japan there are people who go into extreme cases of social withdraw (playing games, collecting things, etc) and get crazy violent when parents try to push them out of it. IIRC there were several parents last year who got killed when they tried to intervene in their socially reclusive children's lives and the kid went berserker killing the whole family as a result.
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