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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 340251" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Something I meant to add - we had one main TV, plus a TV in the parents' room. Then we got a TV card in the computer, which brought it up to three. difficult child 1 wanted to play computer games on the TV and we were reluctant to let him have too much game time, especially at a time when we wanted to watch TV. We had a few fights about it but were also trying to limit the gaming. With difficult child 1 a legal adult with his own money (a disability pension) which we had limited as much as we could, there wasn't a lot we could do when difficult child 1 found an old TV being thrown out by a neighbour, and brought it home in the wheelbarrow. He brought a couple of friends home from school to help him carry the TV - it was rather funny, these same friends were ones I had banned from our house a few years earlier, for their disrespect of difficult child 3; they waited outside after having helped difficult child 1 home with the old TV. I realised it had cost them a lot financially as well as in time, to travel to our place from their "mainland" school. And there they were, still not daring to come inside our house until I said, "It's OK, fellas. Come on in."</p><p></p><p>They helped difficult child 1 set up the old TV and then played a game. And they were on their best behaviour with difficult child 3. The ban was permanently lifted from that day. I was a bit cranky about the TV though - we had been saying to difficult child 1, "You can't permanently plug your computer games into the TV until you get a TV of your own," knowing he couldn't afford one. Then someone GIVES him one! I wasn't expecting that.</p><p></p><p>But it did increase the number of TVs in the house. Some years later when difficult child 1 got a job, one of the first things he bought, was a new (digital) TV. It's the one he and daughter in law now have. The old TV got put outside, but was almost immediately "adopted" by the kid over the road.</p><p></p><p>I think it's in the garage. No car in that garage - just the kids' play room.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 340251, member: 1991"] Something I meant to add - we had one main TV, plus a TV in the parents' room. Then we got a TV card in the computer, which brought it up to three. difficult child 1 wanted to play computer games on the TV and we were reluctant to let him have too much game time, especially at a time when we wanted to watch TV. We had a few fights about it but were also trying to limit the gaming. With difficult child 1 a legal adult with his own money (a disability pension) which we had limited as much as we could, there wasn't a lot we could do when difficult child 1 found an old TV being thrown out by a neighbour, and brought it home in the wheelbarrow. He brought a couple of friends home from school to help him carry the TV - it was rather funny, these same friends were ones I had banned from our house a few years earlier, for their disrespect of difficult child 3; they waited outside after having helped difficult child 1 home with the old TV. I realised it had cost them a lot financially as well as in time, to travel to our place from their "mainland" school. And there they were, still not daring to come inside our house until I said, "It's OK, fellas. Come on in." They helped difficult child 1 set up the old TV and then played a game. And they were on their best behaviour with difficult child 3. The ban was permanently lifted from that day. I was a bit cranky about the TV though - we had been saying to difficult child 1, "You can't permanently plug your computer games into the TV until you get a TV of your own," knowing he couldn't afford one. Then someone GIVES him one! I wasn't expecting that. But it did increase the number of TVs in the house. Some years later when difficult child 1 got a job, one of the first things he bought, was a new (digital) TV. It's the one he and daughter in law now have. The old TV got put outside, but was almost immediately "adopted" by the kid over the road. I think it's in the garage. No car in that garage - just the kids' play room. Marg [/QUOTE]
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