D Beddows
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| posted on 29/9/07 at 01:51 AM |
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Teenagers+ The Internet
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........
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LBMEFM
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| posted on 29/9/07 at 05:24 AM |
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Teenagers
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.
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RichardK
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| posted on 29/9/07 at 08:10 AM |
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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
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 29/9/07 at 08:43 AM |
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Im not really a teenage (nearly 21 ) but when i come in from work, the pc goes on and up comes locost builders 
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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stevec
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| posted on 29/9/07 at 10:53 AM |
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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.
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Scoob
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| posted on 29/9/07 at 10:55 AM |
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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
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blakep82
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| posted on 29/9/07 at 11:04 AM |
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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]
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Simon
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| posted on 29/9/07 at 11:49 PM |
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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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gazza285
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| posted on 30/9/07 at 12:44 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Simon
We were't allowed out of school till 5.30
Then it were back to 'ole in't ground.
DO NOT PUT ON KNOB OR BOLLOCKS!
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 1/10/07 at 07:41 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by gazza285
quote:
Originally posted by Simon
We were't allowed out of school till 5.30
Then it were back to 'ole in't ground.
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty
hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
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DarrenW
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| posted on 1/10/07 at 09:11 AM |
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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.
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iank
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| posted on 1/10/07 at 09:19 AM |
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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.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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