Found out my 8 year old is sneaking downstairs to go online at 2am
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Anonymous
| I was like this at her age, except I snuck watching the Weather Channel on tv since it was the 90s. Set a firm limit about no unsupervised computer use and no sneaking around at night. But encourage the interest- it led to me winning my school geography bee a few years later. Get her weather books, and allow some times when she can watch weather-related documentaries and the Weather Channel, and access the latest website with your supervision. Just not in the middle of the night! |
Anonymous
| This is so weird |
Anonymous
| TAKE ALL DEVICES INTO YOUR ROOM AT NIGHT! |
Anonymous
| I don’t care if it’s weather.com or TikTok. This is unacceptable. It’s not cute because she wants to be a meteorologist or is “quirky”. Lock all the devices up at night since she can’t be trusted to make good choices. |
Anonymous
| All devices need to be charging in your room at night. Now it’s weather.com, just wait til you see the crap they stay up for when they are older. |
Anonymous
It’s telling that only you and maybe one other poster suggested this. Everyone else is like “consequences blah blah blah”. Such terrible parents nowadays. |
Anonymous
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This is very easy to fix. Login to the router and disconnect their devices. People who say their kids get around the parental controls are simply not trying hard enough.
Your router can identify each device on the network by Mac address. My router is set to not allow connections from random Mac addresses. |
Anonymous
I suspect the poster who described her kids getting around controls thinks that they are cute and smart and is proud of their tricks. And if she has black hat hackers on her hands, great I guess? Even if my kids were that good I wouldn't want it to be in the service of being sneaky. |
Anonymous
I'm at the library at least weekly and my local librarians know me by name. Yet I think consequences are far more important than the mountain of books I provide my children. Boundaries matter, and love and flexibility within those boundaries matters too. |
Anonymous
| I don’t think this is that crazy and wouldn’t punish her. It could be worse. I would just go on your router’s app, if it has one, and turn off any devices she’d have access to. We use Xfinity and it is easy to go in and put in time limits or turn WiFi off altogether. WiFi in other locations isn’t affected so school chromebooks will still work at school. |
Anonymous
| Get her one of those home weather station kits and put it in her room |
Anonymous
| Mine was getting up at 5 to sneak and watch skibidi toilet on the tv. Apparently my tv has YouTube on it |
Anonymous
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Our kids’ iPads & school chromebooks are in our room at night. They don’t have any other devices but if they did, we’d keep those in our room at night too. If they had a Fitbit or any other kind of device w an alarm, I’d keep that in my room too. I do this even though to my knowledge my kids (ages 9 and 7) have never snuck their iPads or chromebooks at night. It just seems smart to remove any temptation for them. Now that she’s broken house rules about screen time limits, I think you should also have a consequence like no screen time for a week or something like that. Age 8 is young to get addicted to screens so nip it in the bud or it’ll be way harder to limit when she’s older.
Fortunately this is not a hard problem to solve. |
Anonymous
Is this an advertising plug? Highly doubt any kid would be doing that. That's just the website they keep open to switch tabs to when you arrive. "Look, I was just looking at the weatherchannel!" LMAO. |
Anonymous
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