4 DC (youngest one is thankfully not into technology yet although will bully his big brother's into letting him play Minecraft on the XBox until I realise what he's up to). The older 3 are constantly on a laptop, phone (urgggh could smack teenage DD's Iphone over her head) or the Xbox and it is driving me mad.
They will not listen to me or do as I ask. I have to call them 20 million times. They will not go out and do stuff kids should do. They won't come out with me. They are very angry and argumentative when I prise them from their hands. DS1 actually had proper toddler tantrums when I get to the stage of almost slamming the laptop down on his fingers to get him off Minecraft to eat or wash or go to bed. DD is constantly plugged into headphones in her room and they all stay up for longer than they should purely because of this crap.
DS1's (12) obsession with Minecraft is beyond a joke now and I am getting quite worried about it. He lives it and seems to completely block out real life while he's on it. He even talks to himself about it . He also bribes ME to let him on it with my own money!
Don't get me started about XBox live and god knows who they are 'playing' games and 'talking' to. It could be bloody anybody.
All this technology is making my life so much harder with them but everybody else has it, so they should too right? I wish to good none of this even existed. I mean mobile phones are an excellent invention but did they need to make them mini computers too? Laptops -small enough to be smuggled into bed and them still on them at midnight!
I hide them all but the little buggers find them and of course, DD would like, die, if she was not plugged into her phone. I am also worried about the health risks from wifi and mobile phones not to mention mental health issues from being distanced from reality by living in fantasy worlds they play on these devices.
FFS, I would like to throw them all out the bloody window but then I wouldn't be able to come on here! AIBU?
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to ban my DC from all laptops, tablets and mobile phones? They will not fucking well listen to me and it is a bloody nightmare?
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WonderingAllowed · 03/06/2014 23:34
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