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[Jupiter]

(08-03-2020, 11:39 AM)Squirrel Wrote:

(08-02-2020, 02:25 PM)Jupiter Wrote:    " The lost art of reading a book". Does anyone buy newspapers anymore. I totally understand your frustrations that "kids today" are glued to the blue screens. Having seven grandchildren  and living with 4 of them now. My wife and I are constantly taking their devices at night so they will actually sleep instead of being up all night playing. We can always tell by looking in their eyes ( red and blinking) they have been up til the wee hours of the morning. My ten year old grandson is totally addicted to roblox. We were like you, a little strict with not allowing our son who is19 now not so much time on the computer. But even now we take his phone and laptop away when we see those bloodshot blinking eyes the next day. Technology; if we don't try to teach our children to control their blue screen time. Maybe we are doomed as a society.

My ex has the responsibility to figure out how to be the cop that polices what they do or don't do, since she has 100% custody. (I can't afford my own place with 3 bedrooms, so I could have them all with me for a time, so instead I just go visit them as much as I can, but that has only once included an 'overnight' stay -- so the ex could go on a 2-day 'date'.

I figure that I would like to be an alternate voice that tries to 'reason' with them why they should, or should not be careful trying to do certain things. So hopefully, I will help them understand why she sets out the rules that she does, and helps them see how it is in the interests of their weell-being. (Then again, maybe this is a pipedream, and as soon as I finish my 'reasoning' they will go right back to doing what they want to do, lol.)

I also hope to be a sort of 'escape hatch', if their mom is driving them mad, maybe in the future I could have one of them stay with me for a short time. I am playing the lottery, and hoping there is a God who sees things the way I do, and will provide! (lolollll; I am being serious though!)

But I know what you mean. My one day where I stayed overnight, my oldest son and I discussed it. He didn't know how she always knew that he was doing it. He's only 10, and she can still open his door whenever she wants and stick her head in. He didn't realize that using his tablet would give off a 'glow' and that the comforter he was trying to hide his playing under would glow along with it! (lolol)

And they are in for even more trouble.  If it gets bad enough, and she gets serious enough, she could set up an environment similar to Saphie's parents (I don't think she's here on the Forums though) where it cuts off at a specific time. Not only can you do that, but you can monitor and track the total amount of traffic that is sent to a specific MAC address, and graph it's usage. (lol) She could go as crazy-militaristic as she wants. (And I know she wants, because she is a perfectionist who doesn't realize that could ever be a bad thing.)

People ask me how I could have the grammatical skills that I have, and I completely give the credit for that, that I was never 'texting' on my cell. Communicating by cell becomes a matter of time-efficiency for all. They don't want you to "call", they want you to text. That allows you to do what you want when you want, and reply to others in between. They also don't want to have to tap on their touch keyboard 30 times when they could do it in 10, so sentence structure and grammar go right out the window, and are replaced by all manner of crazy short alternates:

imo = in my opinion
hru = how are you
ilysm = I love you so much
ily2 = I love you too
and on and on this list goes!

For a guy who has no degree, I still managed to become a 'Manager' of a department thanks to my verbal/written skills. So that is something they should consider. It really can help you.

     Under the blanket with the blue light of their tablet glowing; I think that could be a modern day Norman Rockwell illustration from the Saturday Evening Post.
   I'm sure most of the children don't know what I'm texting about. In the old days(circa 2005) my older son didn't have a tablet and phones weren't as sophisticated he would be on the p.c. in the late hours and his room was in the basement. My wife set up mirrors so she could see down stairs. My son would try to block the view with pillows, angle the monitor and even take the mirrors off the wall at night. None of those tactics worked because even if we couldn't see down there, we could hear the clacking of the keyboard and our p.c. made a lot of noise when it was running. We all would like to be able to reason with ourkour but sometimes we have to implement Marshall law and take away their toys for their own development(humans, especially children need proper sleep to function correctly)