To ignore 10 yr old DD

[Chilenachica]

She's rolling around the floor whinging because there's no internet

give a kick while she's down there the whingebag

iPhone

YANBU but don't let her know you have Internet. If she's anything like I was at 10 you'll turn your back for a second to find both your DD and iPhone gone

Yanbu.
Bore Stun her into silence by telling her about the mystical age before broadband, let her know of ye old dial up & the lost age when people didn't even have home computers because they would be bigger than the room you're in.

Stand over her and give her a great, long, involved lecture about how mummy had nothing but the radio & fuzzy felt when she was 10. Reminisce loudly about Christmases with nowt but a tangerine & some nuts in a stocking - but we were all happy because we had each other

She won't listen, but you may unnerve her enough that she'll run away

YANBU.
I also have a ten yr old DD, I understand.

Awoman

This morning she asked me- Mummy, we're you alive in the 80's?

Fuzzy felt , they don't know how to enjoy themselves these days!

I feel your pain. My nearly 10 year old is nagging for my iPhone as our laptop is broken. Muttered no darling bugger off

YANBU. DS had his laptop taken away due to bad behaviour - he threw a strop and lost it longer. He realised he should stop.

He has had it back today (from last Friday!) so is currently sat playing games - the peace is bliss - although allergies are bad atm so has no voice anyway!

My idea of fun in the olden days was a petite junior typewriter and a bag of pear drops. Turned me into the woman I am today. Rather overweight and spending my leisure time on MN.

Some (most?) children's total inability to cope in these situations is dreadful. By comparison, I (most of us) had fuck all. Now I don't want to go back to them days, but seriously when we had no TV because mum hadn't paid the electricity bill there was a power cut, I called for a mate and we went out and played.

They don't know they're born

I called for a mate and we went out and played

Can't be doing that, can they. After all, there's a paedophile round every corner...

My mother says the same thing about TV: that in the 1950s the arrival of household TV destroyed playing out in the same way that the Internet/console games/pedophilia is accused of doing today. She hated TV for years because she simply couldn't drag her mates away from it.

She's actually rolling around on the floor?

Attach a couple of dusters to her.

Why dont you play a board game with her?

Suggest she reads a book you know the things you did before t'nternet and enjoy your iphone

I always offer the option of doing housework when the phrase "I'm bored" rears its ugly head. Seems to work a treat.

I ignored. She got over herself

Having tried the bored board gáme thing before I didn't bother today

I always suggest the tidy bedrooms when the phrase im boooooooooooreeeeeeeeed comes up they soon find something to do ,

I offer housework-they disappear sharpish!