Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made
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@MN5 said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@taniwharugby said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@MN5 sounds fake...
Cats dont do anything by accident.
I just can't figure out how the fuck he did it. He only has little paws.
Stop it! You're embarrassing yourself
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@NTA said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@canefan said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@NTA "Do as I say not do as I do"
"It helps me fall asleep" is also against everything scientific about proper sleep patterns.
But what do those pencil-necked propeller heads know?
Apparently device light like iPads etc are the stimulate rather than relax so it should have opposite effect.
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@Hooroo said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@MN5 said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@taniwharugby said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@MN5 sounds fake...
Cats dont do anything by accident.
I just can't figure out how the fuck he did it. He only has little paws.
Stop it! You're embarrassing yourself
Standard day for me on the fern then
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@NTA said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@canefan said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@NTA "Do as I say not do as I do"
"It helps me fall asleep" is also against everything scientific about proper sleep patterns.
But what do those pencil-necked propeller heads know?
I disagree. I've fallen asleep from time to time while on iPad or phone and woken when the device fell on my face. I'll do myself harm one day
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@NTA said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@dK said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
Grooming a replacement?
I made sure to pick a mate she doesn't really like.
You obviously have never watch a romcom, thats how they all start. Is your food tasting a little bitter at the moment?
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@Hooroo said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@NTA said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@canefan said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@NTA "Do as I say not do as I do"
"It helps me fall asleep" is also against everything scientific about proper sleep patterns.
But what do those pencil-necked propeller heads know?
Apparently device light like iPads etc are the stimulate rather than relax so it should have opposite effect.
I'm a device fall asleeper.
I had really bad insomnia (falling asleep, I'm all good once I'm asleep) from my late teens through to my mid 30s. I tried all the methods sleep experts suggest - the patterns before bed etc to tell your body to get ready for sleep ... but they didn't work and I just couldn't shut my brain down.
However once I got a laptop and started watching sitcom episodes I'd already seen then bang I just started being able to fall asleep - I guess because all though I was watching I wasn't fully concentrating and my brain did shut down.
Although, I guess I'm using part of what the experts suggest (the pattern) and part of what they advise against and it works for me so I'm going to keep doing it.
That's my Fern therapy for the day.
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Kids do spend too much on devices and are definitely addicted to them, adults probably need to take more of a role of setting the correct example.
On a totally unrelated note I upgraded my phone this week, loving my new iPhone XR.
The battery life is awesome, I can literally waste hours every day on this thing.
Love it -
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As with all fern threads this one has taken an odd turn!!
Ms 2 enjoys a bit of muppet babies on the big screen and bounce patrol on YouTube is fricking baby crack. Limited amounts but we are both aware that she sees us on our phones, or doing work or gaming on pc. Generally we do that when shes asleep. So never lol
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@NTA said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
Implemented password protection on all the platforms as soon as they were stood up. Kids don't get to buy shit without say-so.
The Mother-In-Law was another matter.
I was pulled into a false sense of security because they had access from a young age to kid friendly games.
That changed the day I woke up to 20 email alerts for fucking vbucks in Fortnite. Must happen so often that MS have an almost automated refund of those sort of purchases.
Passwords on everything now.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback I have always had my cc details loaded on the Xbox and devices but have never had a single issue with either of my kids. I told them from the get-go that they weren't allowed to make purchases and went over the very fact that making a purchase was actually a very deliberate set of subroutines and that I would consider it theft if they used my credit card to buy skins etc without my say so....
That seems to have worked out nicely.
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@MN5 said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@NTA said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
We were sitting at dinner discussing the screen time thing, as one of the kids informed us her friends don't have a TV in their house, and no devices except the parents' phones which are used for communication and not much else.
Mrs TA pipes up with "And that is probably a good thing, as you kids spend too much time in front of a screen"
I paused, and mentioned an article pointing to research that showed the best way to get kids off their screens was for the parents to spend less time on them as well. Icy silence from the woman who falls asleep to rubbish TV on her iPad at night.
My boys both got Chromebooks for Xmas from myself and ex wife and her hubby....personally I thought it was a slightly over the top present but I didn't want to be the "stink" dad so I went along with it.
Yet despite all this my oldest still insists on grabbing mine and seeing how far back it will bend ?
Fucken moron, if he breaks that then I can't work and afford to pay his Mum child support then he'll have to sell his PS4, PS2 and everything else just to make ends meet.
Should maybe transfer this to the Blokes Advice thread, but I was wondering what the deal was with child support if one parent remarried. I assume the parent paying child support has to continue to do so regardless of the other parent's financial circumstances with the new spouse?
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@MN5 said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
@NTA said in Ropey Purchases Kids Have Made:
We were sitting at dinner discussing the screen time thing, as one of the kids informed us her friends don't have a TV in their house, and no devices except the parents' phones which are used for communication and not much else.
Mrs TA pipes up with "And that is probably a good thing, as you kids spend too much time in front of a screen"
I paused, and mentioned an article pointing to research that showed the best way to get kids off their screens was for the parents to spend less time on them as well. Icy silence from the woman who falls asleep to rubbish TV on her iPad at night.
My boys both got Chromebooks for Xmas from myself and ex wife and her hubby....personally I thought it was a slightly over the top present but I didn't want to be the "stink" dad so I went along with it.
Yet despite all this my oldest still insists on grabbing mine and seeing how far back it will bend ?
Fucken moron, if he breaks that then I can't work and afford to pay his Mum child support then he'll have to sell his PS4, PS2 and everything else just to make ends meet.
Should maybe transfer this to the Blokes Advice thread, but I was wondering what the deal was with child support if one parent remarried. I assume the parent paying child support has to continue to do so regardless of the other parent's financial circumstances with the new spouse?
Not sure the ins and outs. Apparently if I was an arsehole ( despite what you fluffybunnies think I'm actually a decent bloke alot of the time ) I could argue that cos my exes hubby earns like he does then I technically don't have to pay a thing, well for starters I'd never do this and I know what I do pay helps out and I'll continue to do so til the boys are 18 ( maybe after that depending on how they're doing in life ).
I casually mentioned that I didnt have to pay in a joking manner and the ex still tore fucken strips off me hahaha !