Parental Advice- Re: Xbox 360

[memyselfI]

Part of this has been a lapse in parenting and establishing consistent boundaries coupled with the fact that the child is too young to be playing "M" games. You say he is too young to play those games and won't pay for them but you allowed him to keep and have access to one when one magically appeared. Plus he has had access to the internet and your credit card and the Xbox with improper supervision. And yet he is the problem here?

Take away the Xbox and make a plan to start making better parenting choices.

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

Part of this has been a lapse in parenting and establishing consistent boundaries coupled with the fact that the child is too young to be playing "M" games. You say he is too young to play those games and won't pay for them but you allowed him to keep and have access to one when one magically appeared. Plus he has had access to the internet and your credit card and the Xbox with improper supervision. And yet he is the problem here?

Take away the Xbox and make a plan to start making better patenting choices.

[seclark]

Originally Posted by Dayze

somebody is going to get told to eat a bag of dicks...
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[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by Dayze

Not sure why. If you have ever watched an episode of Supernanny or worked with children you know a good portion of a child's misbeavior is lax, impproper, or incoonsistent parenting. I think in cases where children make the type of mistakes listed here it is 99% the parents fault because there are passwords, parental controls, and other safeguards parents fail to use to limit or restrict their child's use of technology as well as monitoring their use.

Hold the kid responsible for his choices but some introspection on the parents actions is also needed.

[teedubya]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

Part of this has been a lapse in parenting and establishing consistent boundaries coupled with the fact that the child is too young to be playing "M" games. You say he is too young to play those games and won't pay for them but you allowed him to keep and have access to one when one magically appeared. Plus he has had access to the internet and your credit card and the Xbox with improper supervision. And yet he is the problem here?

Take away the Xbox and make a plan to start making better parenting choices.

Hey asshole. I was in New Orleans when this game showed up. As soon as I saw that it was in the house, I took care of it.

JFC. You really are a twunt.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by teedubya

Hey asshole. I was in New Orleans when this game showed up. As soon as I saw that it was in the house, I took care of it.

JFC. You really are a twunt.

So he was home alone while you were in NO or was there a spouse that allowed the situation to happen while you were gone? Did your son hack your XBox account in order to use the saved debit card information or did you forget to delete or pasword protect it?

Look, you might be a fantastic parent who goofed up in this one area. He might be a phenomenal kid who saw an opening. The key is to not only punish his mistakes but to realize what part we played in the situation. That is how we learn to parent better and that is how they learn to avoid repeating mistakes.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

So he was home alone while you were in NO or was there a spouse that allowed the situation to happen while you were gone? Did your son hack your XBox account in order to use the saved debit card information or did you forget to delete or pasword protect it?

Look, you might be a fantastic parent who goofed up in this one area. He might be a phenomenal kid who saw an opening. The key is to not only punish his mistakes but to realize what part we played in the situation. That is how we learn to parent better and that is how they learn to avoid repeating mistakes.

So are you trying to say someone LET HIM STEAL THE GAME?
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[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

So are you trying to say someone LET HIM STEAL THE GAME?
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Not exactly. I am saying there is lax or inconsistent parenting if the child not only 'stole' a game he was not allowed to play but also had unfettered access to the internet and stored credit card info. There might be a pattern here but it involves more than just the kid.

These are types of issues you hear about for a 13-15 year old. Not at 11.

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

Look, you might be a fantastic parent who goofed up in this one area. He might be a phenomenal kid who saw an opening.

Yet you didn't hesitate to assume the worse and blame the parent.

Stupid ****ing ****.