how do you get our daughter to work and stop msn'ing for 5 minutes

[mum46]

I adore my daughter...I'd just like her to do a bit of work for her a levels and stop msn'ing for 5 minutes!

Uninstall MSN from the PC

I have an 18yr old daughter. I adore her and won't pretent otherwise! Currently though she is antagonising me big time. She has a high offer from a top uni and will only get the grades if she tops msn'ing for 5 minutes and gets on with some work. What am I going to do with her!!

Lap top in bedroom with wireless access! Big mistake, top my husband couple of hrs ago.

turn wireless of and get her to earn it with revision

soory meant told my husb couple of hrs ago! New to this game. Praps i'll progress to msn soon too! I suppose my problem is that i can't understand how you can be concentrating on work and msn'ing with about 6 people all at the same time! I don't want to curtail the social life, it's v important, just want her to know there's a time and a place!

funny you should say that, have had problems with internet access in last wk or so, pity they haven't continued...mind you that'd be like cutting off nose to spite face

perhpas the internet can go 'down' fora couple of hours everynight. That way you will not have to have a battle as it will not be your fault

she'll be on the phone to the computer guy over the rd tout suite! btw did suggest that to my husb, thinks bit sneeky. Unfort not getting too much support from him over this, thinks she should be trusted to get on with it. Inclined to agree but would be such a pity to f... it all up at this stage, having got so far

I wouldn't worry too much. It is what they do. Beyond my comprehension how they concentrate on revision/msn but my DSs certainly do the same and so do most of their mates. Remember your parents telling you you couldn't revise properly with music on? I think this is the modern version.

Don't worry. My daughter is now 19 and revising for end of first year uni exams.She is in Halls so does all her revising without any interference from me.
When she did her A levals she did some of her revising in her room with Music blaring and some of it on the computer whil MSN'g to her friends.
She got 2 A's and a C.
My 16 year old is revising for her GCSE's at the moment and I used to jep on at her to revise. But I have learnt to let her get on wiyth it and she does much the same as her sister although she finfds it hard to concentrate for more then 15 minutes at a time. She is getting better and I even found a Revision timetable she had wriiten and put on her wall.
So my advice would be just let her get on with it.

Can relate to all this thread. My 15 yr old dd is on MSN every night and fit inhomework around that. Not happy with how long she spends on MSN but its so hard to limit her time . She is fairly sensible shen she stops and gets ready for bed . Nowadays she hogs this PC and i want to get on MN .
My oldest ds of 18 is onMSN too and spends all time at home in his room chatting to friends or watching tv or playing games on his X Box otherwise he is out with friends at pub or in cars ! Oh the youth of today. There is no family time and this bothers me.