I am off to buy a larger handbag, yes, and not for pleasure either. I need one. In addition to bills, chequebooks, school alerts and demands for money, and much loose change for children's wants, my bag must now accommodate the internet supply Broadband Box, . No other way. I have tried negotiated agreements with my children re usage, concealing the Box in my house, flinging it through the window, and basically all agreements are breached, the house is turned over to uncover the Box, and panes of glass are expensive. So is comes to this.
"Your'e NOT bringing THAT with you", my husband grabs the Broadband box, spilling out of my bag as I root for car keys. Well yes. And you can conclude that I am a crazy bag person or this, that the internet, social networking sites, free porn sites, et all are compulsive, addictive, and quite quite spell binding to vulnerable, still forming teenage brains;. of a power and scope way beyond the capacity of your child to manage. And it can be accessed from TV, Laptop, Notebook, I pod, I pad, and common or garden Mobile Phone, so that other than yanking connection wires from the Box and shoving it in your bag, you are powerless against the onslaught.
I am at the receiving end of constant vehement, and passionate arguments from my little addicts. I have heard it all. "On line for two hours??? Nooo, wasn't, only on for 23 minutes" "but darling the laptop is almost on fire and I can count your searches", "What!! count my searches? What is wrong with you!!". The martyred elder : "And I mean I just want to spend sometime online with my friends after a long day at school, who are never harassed in this way by THEIR parents, and I mean WHY can't I take your Mac to my bedroom, WHY??" and, cunningly, "well, if you are unplugging the broadband box, can I borrow your I Phone to call Dad?" . I actually consider handing it over till I see her little wheeze. I have office funded Internet on my phone.. Also Dad is usually required to phone her to save her credit .And then The Boy : "I am having a CONVERSATION here, I mean anyone would think I was a...a junkie" as I snatch his Notebook at two o'clock in the morning. Yes boy, I do think.that, yes.
So. Do you allow your Teen to fall down a rabbit hole each evening, to where you cannot follow, and they
seemingly cannot return? I don't buy the proposition that the use of these sites cannot be regulated. Networking sites should be forced to apply an age limit for use, and to limit usage hours. Porn sites should be encrypted, available on payment of money only. Fine them massively in default. Close them down.
Children, teenagers, are dying. In Ireland we have escalating suicides, self destruction through anorexia, ghastly cluster suicides, with a clear connection to social networking sites. Normal development is compromised by this daily diversion of mental and psychic energy. What is the matter with us?. Helpless, helpless, helpless as we stand aside for the Pied Piper. Unable to insist on regulation. Unable to act. If you have children YOU know. And it IS that bad.
But hey, don't mind me. I am just a woman with a Broadband Box in her bag.
"Your'e NOT bringing THAT with you", my husband grabs the Broadband box, spilling out of my bag as I root for car keys. Well yes. And you can conclude that I am a crazy bag person or this, that the internet, social networking sites, free porn sites, et all are compulsive, addictive, and quite quite spell binding to vulnerable, still forming teenage brains;. of a power and scope way beyond the capacity of your child to manage. And it can be accessed from TV, Laptop, Notebook, I pod, I pad, and common or garden Mobile Phone, so that other than yanking connection wires from the Box and shoving it in your bag, you are powerless against the onslaught.
I am at the receiving end of constant vehement, and passionate arguments from my little addicts. I have heard it all. "On line for two hours??? Nooo, wasn't, only on for 23 minutes" "but darling the laptop is almost on fire and I can count your searches", "What!! count my searches? What is wrong with you!!". The martyred elder : "And I mean I just want to spend sometime online with my friends after a long day at school, who are never harassed in this way by THEIR parents, and I mean WHY can't I take your Mac to my bedroom, WHY??" and, cunningly, "well, if you are unplugging the broadband box, can I borrow your I Phone to call Dad?" . I actually consider handing it over till I see her little wheeze. I have office funded Internet on my phone.. Also Dad is usually required to phone her to save her credit .And then The Boy : "I am having a CONVERSATION here, I mean anyone would think I was a...a junkie" as I snatch his Notebook at two o'clock in the morning. Yes boy, I do think.that, yes.
So. Do you allow your Teen to fall down a rabbit hole each evening, to where you cannot follow, and they
seemingly cannot return? I don't buy the proposition that the use of these sites cannot be regulated. Networking sites should be forced to apply an age limit for use, and to limit usage hours. Porn sites should be encrypted, available on payment of money only. Fine them massively in default. Close them down.
Children, teenagers, are dying. In Ireland we have escalating suicides, self destruction through anorexia, ghastly cluster suicides, with a clear connection to social networking sites. Normal development is compromised by this daily diversion of mental and psychic energy. What is the matter with us?. Helpless, helpless, helpless as we stand aside for the Pied Piper. Unable to insist on regulation. Unable to act. If you have children YOU know. And it IS that bad.
But hey, don't mind me. I am just a woman with a Broadband Box in her bag.
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