So....... I can't imagine I'm alone here on having at least one teenager in the house addicted to MSN/Myspace/Facebook etc etc, they get home from school at about 3.30 and want to spend the next 8 hours at least hooked up to the internet (with a mobile phone by their side for private texting and at least one house phone for impromptu phone calls in case someone does something 'really unbelievable'.....OR, if you think you've been clever and had the house wired with network cable so you can unplug their internet conection when they realy p*ss you off then they want to 'go to the park'.......for about 6 hours....in the dark.....and you remember what you used to get up to at that age........and then you realise it's actualy no fun being the parent and you even start feeling a bit guilty about what an ar*e you were when you were a teenager and yes I realise I may have strayed somewhat from my original subject Kids........

How I agree, One son 19, says he is happy at home, or is it because it's cheap. One daughter 18, has now left home, never see or hear from her. Youngest daughter 14, rude, arrogant and conceited. But I do love them, don't I ?. Anyway by having a kit car I have an excuse for not being in the house at wekends.

I restrict my kids to 3 hours a day on the pc, 1 for homework and two for browsing and unrestricted weekends, I control this using accessboss http://www.accessboss.com/index.html best 15 quid I ever spent!

Rich

Im not really a teenage (nearly 21 ) but when i come in from work, the pc goes on and up comes locost builders

I only have 3 teenagers at the moment, the 4th is now twenty and has bought a house with two mates.
My lot are permanently plugged into something, they can all type at breakneck speed while talking on two phones at the same time. At least my Daughter does go out aswell and behaves herself fairly well.
The eldest son Pete is known as "Pasty Pete" as he is white as a ghost though staying in.
They will all tell you that us old farts dont know what we are on about and say "all my mates are the same" whats your problem
Going greyer by the day.
Steve.

I know how you feel, Obv just from the teenager POV, I used to pull some of the tricks to get out etc, see my mates etc.. But now im a big teenager (194cm tall, quite athletic build) so now my parents let me out.. Cos they know i can look after myself..

Most of the stuff they do is legal, but you get some idiots who do drugs etc.. but you know who they are... lol

And about the msn etc.. IF your worried about it, just go into my documents, my chat logs and they should have chat logs in their.. If they are girls, they are talking to boys, and vise versa..

Or of course, do whats been said about, and restrict it

Hope this helps, and not makes it worse

i'm on bebo, locostbuilders, and trance.nu right now, probably will be for the most of the day...

[Edited on 29/9/07 by blakep82]

Leave school at 3.30 Bloody half days!

We were't allowed out of school till 5.30 - at least we knew what it'd be like when we started work!

ATB

Simon

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Then it were back to 'ole in't ground.

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So i take it the moral of the story is if you have young kids that arent yet hooked - restrict the access and set rules from the very start then???

My BIL narks the life out of me. Still at home, 32yr old (iirc), and rarely sees the light of day at weekends playing on war games or similar. Mind you when he does go out he plays a lot of Golf and Football so its not all bad. I just get narked more cos he is actually really clever and a nice lad but happy in a dead end job and staying at home - but at least he's not in my house.

When my kids get old enough to use computers in their rooms they will be restricted in time definitely. To cope with 'inappropriate' use I intend to use a trick I first saw years ago in a company. There was a server that sat on the internet line displaying every jpg/gif image as it came into the building. The monitor was in a public place and really concentrated the mind of everyone on their browsing.