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Plus, I, being the somewhat mature and reasonable adult, get a Smartphone. DH gets the Smartphone - well, he has two actually, one for work, one for home. My kids who have earned the right to have a cell phone get the world's most boring plan and phone EVER. They can make calls. They can play two preloaded games.
There is no internet on their phones. There is no texting on their phones. There is no camera on their phones.
You want to use the internet, there is a computer right there in the family room. You want to talk to your friend, call them.
I also have the horribly unfair rule that bedroom doors are NOT shut unless you are changing clothes or sleeping. You break that rule, you lose the door.
I'm this mean when the kids are being well mannered and trustworthy. You do not want to see how mean I can be when they've thrown that trust away, then stomped on it. You want a social life? Have fun being social with the chickens.
Are you planning to bring up socially repressed children that are so messed up they will be the next mass murderer in a high school ????
WOW-you take the cake!!!! I guess then most of us parents on here are socially repressed since they didn't even have these things when we grew up and got our asses busted too!!!!!!! you're right ,lets just keep raising and spoiling this generation of self-entitled ,rude kids to let them grow up and run this country when all they know how to do is stand there with their hand out for more. We always had a houseful with 5 kids and their friends--they are all grown now and one friend came to visit one day and made this comment "we always liked coming to your house because you had rules". we get comments still to this day on how polite and respectful our kids are-makes us proud. we weren't tyrants-it was a fun house-but we did parent!!!!!
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Plus, I, being the somewhat mature and reasonable adult, get a Smartphone. DH gets the Smartphone - well, he has two actually, one for work, one for home. My kids who have earned the right to have a cell phone get the world's most boring plan and phone EVER. They can make calls. They can play two preloaded games.
There is no internet on their phones. There is no texting on their phones. There is no camera on their phones.
You want to use the internet, there is a computer right there in the family room. You want to talk to your friend, call them.
I also have the horribly unfair rule that bedroom doors are NOT shut unless you are changing clothes or sleeping. You break that rule, you lose the door.
I'm this mean when the kids are being well mannered and trustworthy. You do not want to see how mean I can be when they've thrown that trust away, then stomped on it. You want a social life? Have fun being social with the chickens.
Are you planning to bring up socially repressed children that are so messed up they will be the next mass murderer in a high school ????
WOW-you take the cake!!!! I guess then most of us parents on here are socially repressed since they didn't even have these things when we grew up and got our asses busted too!!!!!!! you're right ,lets just keep raising and spoiling this generation of self-entitled ,rude kids to let them grow up and run this country when all they know how to do is stand there with their hand out for more. We always had a houseful with 5 kids and their friends--they are all grown now and one friend came to visit one day and made this comment "we always liked coming to your house because you had rules". we get comments still to this day on how polite and respectful our kids are-makes us proud. we weren't tyrants-it was a fun house-but we did parent!!!!!