Anyone else's inlaws glued to their iPads?

[Anonymous]

This is what society is coming to. I hate it when my ILs start showing my kids their phone. It's one thing if they want to rot their own brain, but please spare my kids.

[Anonymous]

This is sad and would drive me nuts. I second unplugging the wifi. And when they ask, just say you turned it off so you could all share some quality family time together, then point out all the games you have in the house to play with the kids.

[Anonymous]

my mil is like this. 24/7. we don't have kids yet but it's frustrating when everyone else is running around trying to get a meal together or clean up from a meal and she just parks it on the couch on the ipad, making no effort to help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine are like this. I wish they'd get on the floor and play with the kids, but it's not going to happen. Let it go.

I think this expectation is so bizarre. None of my grandparents got on the floor and played with me and I would have thought it was weird if they had.

And don't you realize most old people are achy and find it painful to sit on the floor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine are like this. I wish they'd get on the floor and play with the kids, but it's not going to happen. Let it go.

I think this expectation is so bizarre. None of my grandparents got on the floor and played with me and I would have thought it was weird if they had.

And don't you realize most old people are achy and find it painful to sit on the floor?

OP here. I don't expect them to do that. I do expect them to respond politely if I say something like, "how is Aunt Susan?" They are so engrossed they don't even hear me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't ban iPads from adults.

I can see their side of this. They come over and don't know how to insert themselves into your lives. So they stay out of the way on the couch. You need to help them, ask for help cooking. Tell them what games to play with the kids outside. Get some arts and crafts set up. Help them facilitate the relationship.

We do that. They just say "in a bit" or "not right now"

My ILs are like that except with TV. They came after my daughter was born and spent five months watching tv for 8+ hours a day in a different room and leaving messes for me to take care of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't ban iPads from adults.

I can see their side of this. They come over and don't know how to insert themselves into your lives. So they stay out of the way on the couch. You need to help them, ask for help cooking. Tell them what games to play with the kids outside. Get some arts and crafts set up. Help them facilitate the relationship.

We do that. They just say "in a bit" or "not right now"

My ILs are like that except with TV. They came after my daughter was born and spent five months watching tv for 8+ hours a day in a different room and leaving messes for me to take care of.

Yep. This for me too. I guess it is good they have the smarts to use an Ipad instead of just watching "price is right" all the time? (Seriously, my parents and IL would much rather watch TV than interact.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I might just unplug the wifi and say its "acting up"

Good God I do this all the time!! Juuust long enough for everyone to give up and get going on some other project or activity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can't ban iPads from adults.

I can see their side of this. They come over and don't know how to insert themselves into your lives. So they stay out of the way on the couch. You need to help them, ask for help cooking. Tell them what games to play with the kids outside. Get some arts and crafts set up. Help them facilitate the relationship.

We do that. They just say "in a bit" or "not right now"

My ILs are like that except with TV. They came after my daughter was born and spent five months watching tv for 8+ hours a day in a different room and leaving messes for me to take care of.

5 months? Oh my God! Why? Cannot even process this...

[Anonymous]

Are you kidding, I'd love it if this were the case. Instead, we end up sitting around the kitchen table for hours with them only addressing my husband. When they finally got wi-fi, I was freed from the table. I can sit in the guest room and use my laptop to surf the net.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I might just unplug the wifi and say its "acting up"

Good God I do this all the time!! Juuust long enough for everyone to give up and get going on some other project or activity.

Who doesn't have 3G?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I might just unplug the wifi and say its "acting up"

Good God I do this all the time!! Juuust long enough for everyone to give up and get going on some other project or activity.

Who doesn't have 3G?

Us poors.