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computer etiquette
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:16:54 GMT
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This is definatly off topic, and not really fun, because I am am still hot
about it. But maybe some of you witty people can come up with a humorous way to
difuse the situation.
I make a big effort to make my boys' (ages 14, 16, 17) friends feel
welcome in our home. If they are here at meal time, I invite them to eat with
us as a matter of course. I allow magic or dungeon and dragon games to drag on
all night on predetermined weekends, and even pony up for the pizza. I would
rather have them here, where I know what they are doing.
Last week my limits were exceeded. A kid came in, plopped down on the
family computer and proceeded to download his email. I was in the other room
and not aware of this untill later. The next day a different kid plops down
and browes around until he finds our home page of interest, and proceeds to
ridicule our views expressed on the page. (This second kid is not a friend,
just a physics partner for a project my son got stuck with.)
I am feed up with parenting the entire neighborhood. These kids missed
out on basic training, and I don't feel like spending my emotional energy
correcting them. Maybe I should just post a list of rules on the computer.
Thank-you for allowing me to vent. I feel better now.
Louise
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: computer etiquette
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| Louise Belles writes: <SNIP> (...) Sounds like the rules should be clearly laid out on computer usage. Especially if you don't have unlimited internet time. Even if you do have unlimited internet time I would still post rules. One of them being "no (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: computer etiquette
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| (...) Wow, you're a great, if perhaps overly nice mom. :) (...) Post the rules for sure. And there is NO reason why kids who aren't friends of your kids should be using your stuff like its theirs. If they want to use your computer, they ask. Then (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: computer etiquette
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| (...) I can kinda sympathize with you Louise. My younger brother's best friend used to come over to our house all the time after school and weekends. Nice kid, just had a huge appetite and the metabolism of 5 people - always eating. He used to come (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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