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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
4928 Posts
USA
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 Posted - Jan 05 2011 : 05:27:21 AM
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It seems that my kids were the only ones who did not receive an iPod, a computer or cell phone for a Christmas present. Each kid had to share what they got, which in my opinion should not be done anymore.
I'm not upset that I don't, and cannot, buy those items, but wonder if the school does this so kids can brag or just to be nosy. Some times I wonder if I should put them all back in homeschool. 
Farmgirl #800
http://momzonetakingtimeformom.blogspot.com/
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MrsRooster
True Blue Farmgirl
1168 Posts
Amy
Seabrook
TX
USA
1168 Posts |
Posted - Jan 05 2011 : 07:22:59 AM
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I will never ever put my daughter into public school again.
In a month or so when these toys get stolen because everyone now knows what everyone has.
My daughter has a Nitendo DS. I didn't buy it for her. I let her play a certain amount of time. Then I send her outside.
www.mrsrooster.blogspot.com
Farmgirl #1259
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SherBear
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherri
Mukwonago
Wi
USA
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Posted - Jan 05 2011 : 09:18:03 AM
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My stepdaughter is 10 and is already asking for a cellphone. Why? Because all of her friends have them. And she's not just saying that to get one-they have them, I've seen them! 10! 10 years old with cellphones! I told her I would get her one when she was 13, and still it would only have phone calling abilities, and maybe MAYBE texting. No internet. Of course she wants a smart phone with all the bells and whistles. I don't think so. I don't even have one of those! (Cause I don't want to pay for the upgraded plan I need to go with the smartphones/internet access!)
She has her mom worn down a little more- she said she'd get one when she turns 12. Fine with me-I don't need to pay for it then, but I don't think a bunch of little girls need cellphones to get themselves into trouble with. Especially smartphones. That's like having a tiny computer-even harder to make sure that they aren't getting taken advantage of on a screen that's only a couple inches.
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Prairie Gypsy
True Blue Farmgirl
823 Posts
Tammy
Wolford
North Dakota
USA
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Posted - Jan 05 2011 : 10:29:07 AM
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Actually around here they have them in preschool and kindergarten. Sad but true. There was an article yesterday on Yahoo about a 6 yo that was using her Ipod and racked up $400 in charges for a game. Apparently the attorney general is thinking about going after a couple companies for predatory practices for kids this young.
Farmgirl Sister # 2363
http://twilightburrough.blogspot.com/
Warren, MI
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MrsRooster
True Blue Farmgirl
1168 Posts
Amy
Seabrook
TX
USA
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Posted - Jan 05 2011 : 12:16:36 PM
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It is a wonderful that any of the kids can hold a normal conversation. They even text to one another in the class room.
www.mrsrooster.blogspot.com
Farmgirl #1259
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
1145 Posts
Amanda
East Texas
USA
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Posted - Jan 05 2011 : 4:51:02 PM
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I know your kids weren't the only ones, cause mine didn't get any of that junk, either! Just think...you'll be so proud in a few years when your kids are on their own, working for what they need/want and their buddies will be still living at home, jobless, in their parents' basement.
I say, if they want it, they can work for it!
P.s. my kids are in public school, too, but so far, we are really enjoying it. We have a GREAT school.
FarmGirl #1390
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jan 05 2011 : 8:26:58 PM
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I am so glad my kids are grown. But when they were kids we didn't have a computer or even a VCR or video games. I now have an 11 1/2 year old granddaughter. She does not have a cell phone. She does have all that other stuff though. She is very good at playing all the video games. Now my sister's 12 1/2 year old daughter has had a phone for years. I just went to her facebook page and was literally shocked at what I saw and read there. I just wanted to cry. She looks like she's 18. Taking pictures of herself and posting them and then saying how ugly she looks. Then her friends say that she's not ugly, they are. And back and forth they go. Is that what kids these days are doing? And in one photo a girl said she looked like she was stoned. Stoned! 12 years old! I think that really shocked me. It's so sad. And scary.
So please hold off as long as you can. I hate to see all these kids with cell phones connected to them. They never put them down. It's like pretty soon kids will start being born with a cell phone attached to them somehow. Do kids actually talk to each other anymore?
Kris
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1735 Posts
angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
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Posted - Jan 05 2011 : 10:17:09 PM
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My 16y/o has one out of self defense on my part. I wanted MY phone back! My 10y/o has a nintendo ds for playin with at dr appt and when we're drivin somewhere, but not at home. Since my girls are homeschooled and we are a 1 car family we are at home pretty much all the time, so she plays very little. She's had it for more than a year and only has 4 games for it. You can't get bored with a game when you hardly play it!
Her 5y/o cousin has one as well, and a cell phone! The girls trade games sometimes because her cousin gets bored of her games, but mine doesn't really care what game she has.
I think givin too much too soon is what is makin all these kids these days think they are intitled to have it all. I really believe that if kids were made to work for their cars, toys, phones, and money they would be better citizens and more responsible. I see a lot of that in my 2 nephews. One was handed everything because he was the athletic, good lookin, golden child and the other has had to struggle for everything because he was small, autistic, and hard to deal with.
The golden child has graduated from college and even with his HUGE football scholarship is over $100,000 in debt, without a job, livin in his girlfriends house but even that is shakey since he doesn't help her with the bills and stuff sh'e gettin fed up with it.
The 'other' child is in college to be a minister, workin his way through on his own, has his car paid off as well as havin paid off his brothers car, which he cosigned for. He did get a few scholarships, one was for lettering in the bowling team, and one for bein disabled, but they don't even cover half the cost. He works 20 hours a week for the college to pay for his dorm and tuition, and 10 hours a week off campus to earn enough money to buy his meal tickets and toiletries.
I have had to fight for years to bring my oldest back into a reasonable line of thinkin after she lived for 18 months when she was younger with her biological father. My Hubby and I have had a hard fight with her and we are determined that our 2 younger girls won't wind up in that line of thinkin. Right now our 10y/o thinks she's in heaven when momma lets her use my phone so she can go look in the stores by herself till we're ready to leave and call her from daddy's phone to meet us at the car. She doesn't answer unless it's her dad callin and she doesn't call anyone. She just enjoys the time without her 2y/o sister hangin off her leg and thinks she's gettin something great! Even if it's the grocery store we're at and she just walks the isles! Most kids these days would think that's prison!
Farmgirl Sister #1438
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