Well its like this.
I can afford a few play stations or XBOX systems.
I would have simply said "You have 5 seconds to turn that ****** off before i beat it into a million pieces"
if the 5 seconds expired without the child turning it off, within the next 20 seconds he would be sweeping up little bits of plastic and circuitry.
if the kid actually turned it off, i would send him to bed, collect the controllers and throw the circuit breaker to his room until the next morning.
you have to take a hard line with little bastards.
I had a friend of mine once in high school, came home bitching up a storm about how her friends had really nice four post beds and nice furniture in their rooms and all she had was old crap.
her dad said "Well sweety, while you are at school tomorrow I'll see what i can do about that."
appeased, she went to bed. and to school the next day.
while at school, her father rented a storage unit down the road... and moved ALL of her furniture and worldly possessions into it.
Remaining in the room was a single sheet, one pillow, an overturned milk crate with an alarm clock, and 3 or 4 other milk crates which her clothing had been placed into.
she got her original furniture back after 30 days.
NEVER complained about anything of the sort again