I thinbk it can be a tool to help monitor what your kid is or isn't doing. I think the tool is more accurately timing the length of the use of the PS2 than any busy parent could over the days and weeks. If I'm fixing dinner or doing homework with another child, it's good that my discipline can be practiced at least in part even if I'm not able to physically present at the time. Any tool can be abused, but it doesn't make the tool intrinsically bad for that measure alone.
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