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re: Do you allow your kids to have screens in their rooms?
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:10 pm to turnpiketiger
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:10 pm to turnpiketiger
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Let your kids be kids man.
That’s what I’m trying to do. I want him to go be a kid in the real world. And the crazy thing to me is that some of the parents who let their kids have unfettered access to the internet are the most restrictive when it comes to living in general. Many won’t even allow their kids to walk home from school, but those same parents will let their kid do who knows what online all day. Seems backwards to me.
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Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:12 pm to Lonnie Utah
quote:Eagle Scout at 13 is pretty damn impressive NGL.
My 13 (almost 14) year old got a cell phone a year ago at Christmas. But it's a gabb phone with no internet access. He's not allowed to keep his cell phone nor his tablet in his room. Consequently, his nose isn't in a phone or tablet all of the time. This is also the kid that made Eagle Scout last summer. Apparently, when they don't have a screen to stare at 24/7 they find other ways to fill their "free" time...
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:12 pm to AmosMosesAndTwins
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Nazi. My world at 13 was 99% me in my room with my arm about to fall off.
Those "hope they don't scrambled the video" late night sessions...
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:14 pm to pelicanpride
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I want him to go be a kid in the real world.
Part of the real world is being online, no matter how bad you want it to not be
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:17 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Keep letting your kids have screens in their rooms... Provo man arrested, accused of sexually assaulting 13-year-old he met on Instagram
The only kid I’ve ever known who was abducted and sexually assaulted was groomed by an older man online posing as a teenage boy. Convinced her to sneak out and get in his truck. She would have never gotten in his truck if not for the online relationship. The online world scares me much more than the real one.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:21 pm to Gravitiger
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Eagle Scout at 13 is pretty damn impressive NGL.
Thank you. A lot of it was the structure of his old troop. There was a high ratio of scoutmasters to scouts so the kids could get all of the eagle required badges done as quickly or as slowly as they wanted. Ironically, he was the last kid to make scout from his crossover class...
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:27 pm to pelicanpride
My granddaughters come to the house and never touch devices or watch TV. They enjoy hikes to the "Big Rock" or to the pond. They like to go out and feed the cows cow cubes. They build a fort with grandma. They love coming out where there is no tech.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:30 pm to Gusoline
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They should learn that nobody truly cares about him but himself and his family,
Sorry that you don't have any fiends that truly care about you. Luckily for me I do,
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:33 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Part of the real world is being online, no matter how bad you want it to not be
I guess I agree. That’s why I allow my 10 year old to play video games with his friends. But he’s not doing it with a headset on in his bedroom. And he’s not doing it all day. My post was about restrictions, not a complete severing from the online world.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:34 pm to pelicanpride
Daughter is 15, no TV in the room.
Phone gets plugged in the kitchen at 9:30 pm each night and she uses Alexa as an alarm.
Phone gets plugged in the kitchen at 9:30 pm each night and she uses Alexa as an alarm.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:34 pm to pelicanpride
Yes. Keeps the mosquitoes out.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:34 pm to pelicanpride
We allowed a phone at 13 but keep tabs on it with qustodio software, so I can see all the calls, who its from, and all the text messages from my computer. We don't allow tv's but if homework is done we do allow tablets screen time in their rooms for up to 1.5hrs per weekday, for our 10 and 11 year olds. I can kill the internet to any device from my cell phone. So if its time for bed and they aren't listening, i just cut the internet from their device.
Seems to work well and I don't have to hear the stupid freaking show they like to watch on tv.
Seems to work well and I don't have to hear the stupid freaking show they like to watch on tv.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:35 pm to tigerbaiter
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Yes. Keeps the mosquitoes out
that’s as funny as a screen door on a submarine
Posted on 3/17/25 at 12:59 pm to MSTiger33
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There are no iPads during the week. We also just implemented a 2hr per day rule on the weekend. Kids are 8 and 10. Phones maybe in 7th grade
Terrible.
Let me guess, they haul those embarrassing tablets to dinner at a restaurant I bet.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 1:00 pm to Rust Cohle
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but spends six hours a day till 2 AM playing call of duty online with his friends.
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with his friends
This is the key part. It's a shared experience.
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But parents will be all proud saying my 13-year-old doesn’t have an iPhone
Not a shared experience, brain rot. Porn.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 1:10 pm to Toroballistic
Until it's incovenient for them.
This post was edited on 3/17/25 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 3/17/25 at 1:25 pm to Odysseus32
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Yeah?
Well I bury my kids up to their neck and then sprinkle bird feed on their head and see if they can last through the night.
Ah, so you believe in "soft parenting"?
Mine have to wake up half an hour before they go to bed, dig down through the earth's crust with their bare hands, and fight the balrog for their dinner of moldy maggot pie. And mind you, those maggots had dined on British cuisine.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 1:43 pm to pelicanpride
My kids are eight and ten. This doesn't 100% fall on my wife (no pics) but I do blame her a lot for the kids being on the iPads way too much because she is home with them more than I am. But I recently have limited them to an hour per day after their homework and chores are done. Their immediate reaction to this was like I murdered their best friends in front of them. Since the time change I have been taking them fishing once I get home from work or practice batting in the back yard- anything to keep them outside and active.
It is to the point now they for their hour of screen time they don't even stay on the tablets more than 20-30 minutes. With doing this, I stay off of my phone more so it helps everyone. Life is too short to be glued to a screen every waking moment.
It is to the point now they for their hour of screen time they don't even stay on the tablets more than 20-30 minutes. With doing this, I stay off of my phone more so it helps everyone. Life is too short to be glued to a screen every waking moment.
Posted on 3/17/25 at 1:55 pm to pelicanpride
My two year old has a TV in his room.
At night he watches 15 minutes of cartoons and then a 12 hour video of a guy walking across a Modded version Skyrim.
It's mainly because it has a varying orchestra mixed with weather transitions. He's fallen asleep to the sound since he was probably 2 months old
At night he watches 15 minutes of cartoons and then a 12 hour video of a guy walking across a Modded version Skyrim.
It's mainly because it has a varying orchestra mixed with weather transitions. He's fallen asleep to the sound since he was probably 2 months old
Posted on 3/17/25 at 3:15 pm to pelicanpride
All of mine got a phone at 10
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