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Re: computer etiquette
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Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:53:11 GMT
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cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com
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Louise Belles <belles@flash.net> wrote:
> 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.
Wow, you're a great, if perhaps overly nice mom. :)
> 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.
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 they read the rules.
I'd say anyone who is rude enough to criticize your views on anything
in your own home, while abusing your hospitality, deserves only to be
shown the door. Let him work with your son on his physics project
during lunch at school.
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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