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Post by giramomma on Sept 25, 2014 14:23:42 GMT -5
Ok, totally jumping off topic (sort of), but my son needs something to do homework on. These Chromebooks are on sale on Woot today and I'm thinking it would be good because all their homework is on Google Docs. computers.woot.com/offers/hp-14-dual-core-chromebooks-w-free-4g-14?ref=cnt_dly_tlBut maybe a desktop in the dining room would be better? (I think I just asked about this a few days ago, so excuse me if I didn't process any responses. Just saw the sale today, LOL). We just got a cheap laptop for the kids.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2014 14:28:22 GMT -5
Ok, totally jumping off topic (sort of), but my son needs something to do homework on. These Chromebooks are on sale on Woot today and I'm thinking it would be good because all their homework is on Google Docs. computers.woot.com/offers/hp-14-dual-core-chromebooks-w-free-4g-14?ref=cnt_dly_tlBut maybe a desktop in the dining room would be better? (I think I just asked about this a few days ago, so excuse me if I didn't process any responses. Just saw the sale today, LOL). years and years ago we all shared a desktop and I would never want to go back to that....especially since I want to be able to sit in bed and do stuff on a laptop and the kids may want to do their homework somewhere other than where the desktop is set up. Well, we wouldn't be sharing. I have a laptop and the 4 year old doesn't really need anything. My fear is he'll just crawl off and play Minecraft for hours on end.
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Post by giramomma on Sept 25, 2014 14:31:22 GMT -5
Well, we wouldn't be sharing. I have a laptop and the 4 year old doesn't really need anything. My fear is he'll just crawl off and play Minecraft for hours on end. Actually, mine doesn't do that now that the school year is back in session. Unless one of his close friends calls. DS's friend recently moved, and they meet in minecraft sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2014 14:31:31 GMT -5
years and years ago we all shared a desktop and I would never want to go back to that....especially since I want to be able to sit in bed and do stuff on a laptop and the kids may want to do their homework somewhere other than where the desktop is set up. Well, we wouldn't be sharing. I have a laptop and the 4 year old doesn't really need anything. My fear is he'll just crawl off and play Minecraft for hours on end. so you either set parental controls for for times he can be on or disable the IP at some time of night.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2014 14:39:15 GMT -5
Well, we wouldn't be sharing. I have a laptop and the 4 year old doesn't really need anything. My fear is he'll just crawl off and play Minecraft for hours on end. so you either set parental controls for for times he can be on or disable the IP at some time of night. I was thinking more along the lines of being able to watch and make sure he's really doing homework and not getting sidetracked. This is his first year getting homework and he's struggling with the concept yet. Our rule now is no electronics except his plain Kindle go down to the bedroom with him at night or he would sit up all night playing on them. Even if the internet was disabled. There's plenty to occupy him loaded already. I do like he could take a laptop with him to school and work on stuff there. I THINK you can do stuff on a Chromebook without being online. I'm not positive.
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Post by 973beachbum on Sept 25, 2014 20:02:36 GMT -5
I have two very different kids so what I did with DD probably won't work for DS but I hope it does. With DD I never intentionally snooped because she never gave me a reason, but I did remind her almost daily if there was ever anything she didn't want me to see in her room, all she needed to do to keep me from seeing it was to clean the damn thing! I didn't go in there to snoop but it wasn't like i was picking up dirty laundry and old soda bottles with my eyes closed. I never read her texts for one simple reason. Do you guys realize how many texts a teen can write in a day? It makes me wonder how much free time you guys have. I would have to give up something like sleeping just to have the time to read it all.
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Post by shanendoah on Sept 25, 2014 21:04:09 GMT -5
To answer the main question: yes, unequivocally yes. And I said as much, in front of the judge, during the adoption hearing, when she said "snoop a little bit" my answer was "probably more than a bit". Please understand that if, at the end of counseling, Pop Tart and her counselor decide starting a journal would be good for her, I would NOT read the journal. People need places they can say anything they want and feel safe that no one will know it. However, her room is otherwise in my house. I will go through her laundry, her backpack, etc.
She got a laptop for her 11th birthday. She gets to use it in her room. She has a steam account that is friended with both mine & C's accounts, and since we always have Steam up, it tells us what she is playing. Also, her account is a child's account on the computer. My account is the primary one. She does not know my passwords and can not change any settings. Plus, Microsoft sends me a weekly update of what her account has done online.
I honestly don't know that she'll get a FB account when she's 13. This is partly because her bio-mom is on FB. And if she has an account, I will not be able to stop her from searching for, and possibly contacting, her mother. And at 13, I don't know if she'll be ready for that. So basically, no FB account until I think she can handle contact with bio-mom.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 26, 2014 10:00:09 GMT -5
This is so timely... I have a smartphone now, so does DD (family plan made it very reasonable). I was checking "things" on the train this morning and saw a whole bunch of messages/feeds in my update section. WTF?!? I didn't get/understand where any of them came from... THEN I realized it was my daughters google account. Her phone ran out of juice on a recent car ride and I let her use mine. She must've logged in as herself and forgot to log out. TRUTH - I really don't know how to use the damn thing yet and didn't realize this stuff was there for, oh, about 2 weeks . Yea...I have a STEM and a masters... So - I will ask DD to show me how to log her off from my phone. In the meantime, gawd! There's a lot of teen angst out there. I wonder if this kinda stuff feeds off of itself. I mean there was a whole thread about suicidal thoughts (which is why I kept reading - I though OMG what if this was from one of my friends!!!) but is was just a general page about how life as a teen sucks and to hang in there life gets better.
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Post by nogooddeed on Sept 26, 2014 10:51:02 GMT -5
We do in the usual manner of checking phones, texts, PC use. But, we also do have the ability to do something I'm sure will creep out some of you. We have a security system with cameras both inside and outside the house. Some breakins in the neighborhood will do that, plus a stalker which is another story. Anyway, on random days when the kids call to let one of us know they are home from school, we might pull up the security system on our smartphones to actually see them. We've always told them while talking on the phone that we are looking at them. They wave, give a thumbs up, roll their eyes, whatever. It was really fabulous one day to see DD's excitement when she was telling me the results of a hard test she had taken. We have warned them that if we think something is up with one or more of them that we will access the video feed without their knowledge. So far, so good.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 26, 2014 10:52:47 GMT -5
We do in the usual manner of checking phones, texts, PC use. But, we also do have the ability to do something I'm sure will creep out some of you. We have a security system with cameras both inside and outside the house. Some breakins in the neighborhood will do that, plus a stalker which is another story. Anyway, on random days when the kids call to let one of us know they are home from school, we might pull up the security system on our smartphones to actually see them. We've always told them while talking on the phone that we are looking at them. They wave, give a thumbs up, roll their eyes, whatever. It was really fabulous one day to see DD's excitement when she was telling me the results of a hard test she had taken. We have warned them that if we think something is up with one or more of them that we will access the video feed without their knowledge. So far, so good. Not creeped out at all. After a recent home invasion in our area we are considering getting a security camera/system of our own. Care to share which one you use?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2014 10:57:13 GMT -5
how the heck does everyone have the time to check hundreds of texts every day?
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Post by Firebird on Sept 26, 2014 11:19:31 GMT -5
But, we also do have the ability to do something I'm sure will creep out some of you. We have a security system with cameras both inside and outside the house.
I would find it creepy if the kids didn't know about it. But since they do, it's little more than a red light camera at a stoplight.
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