We’ve been getting a fair number of tantrums from Jon lately. This time around (they come in waves, months apart, gradually fuelled more each time by teenage hormones), they are based on frustration with difficulties in a Wii game (which is why we have strict time limits on certain games) and homework, since this year’s curriculum is at a much more challenging level than that of the previous years, in content, approach, and activities.

On occasion during his fireworks, Jon will belligerently yell that he wants us to “make a movie of the tantrum!”. I usually refuse on the grounds that no one would ever want to watch that particular video of that.

But maybe I’m wrong…here, from Norway, is a very young man known as the PlayStation 3 Kid.

There is a critical difference in tantrum style between the two young gentlemen. The PS3 Kid seems to be fuelled more by addiction: he seems emotionally-detached at points, and is trying a variety of acting methods to motivate his parents. By contrast, Laura points out, Jon’s tantrums are like the bears you see in the movies. If they are going to roar and be ferocious on film, their trainer has to work them into true anger. Like them, Jon is a method actor.