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It’s Up To Parents To Pull Plug On Internet

AudiR10 Wrote: Oct 04, 2012 11:42 AM
My youngest sister frequently trumpeted her intention that, when she grew up, she would NEVER treat her kids the way Mama treated her. Until she had kids. Then she admitted in a sudden burst of candour one day, "I found out why Mama did those things. BECAUSE THEY WORK." One example: during a birthday party for her then 4 year old son, said child and a friend locked themselves in a bedroom. The other child's mother said, "Oh, now you'll have to take the door off..." Sis said, "What are you talking about?" and said, "Open that door this instant. THIS. INSTANT." Click, open door. "I told you not to lock that door. Don't do it again." with that Mom Look that says "One more step and you are a dead man." Problem solved.

A week ago, after I gave a speech to a parent group, a mother with a difficult issue approached me. It was something she didn’t want to discuss in front of her school community during the question-and-answer session.

“Basically,” she whispered, “my daughter is totally addicted to Facebook. She is on it all the time — and I mean ALL the time — and if we ask her to click off and join the family, she gets very nasty.

“I feel like I should do something,” the mother told me, choking back her emotion, “but I don’t know what to do.”

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