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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue here is not the access/lack of access to the electronics. It's the judgmental statements that are the problem. You have a couple of choices OP:

--Set some ground rules with friends: "We all make choices with our kids about technology. I respect your right to do that as a parent and hope you respect mine. I'm not going to argue with you over who is a better parent. Some of your comments have come off as judgmental and disrespectful to me. So can we all agree to keep comments about kids and technology to ourselves?"

--Contiune to stay silent and make peace with your annoyance.

--Fade away from the group. If there's nothing else for them to talk about, then why bother? What are you getting out of connecting with these people?

[b]I would definitely be in the sanctimommy group.  I have an only child, and when she receives text messages at all hours from a school buddy on her iPad (which DD uses only under supervision), I think:  1.  No phone for my DC till college, no way/no how and 2. Where are the parents of this buddy from school?  Why aren't they...parenting?[/b]

(When I see how easily the kids exchange photos of themselves lounging with pets and all sorts of casual off hand comments, it's easy to imagine this evolving into sexting.)

That said, I realize that I'm not going to change your ideas on this, OP.  Which is fine.  And you are not going to change mine.

So of the above options, I would advise you to stay silent, or fade away from the group.  Secure in the knowledge that, in the end, your children may be more well adjusted than mine.  :wink: 
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So how young is your child? Based on the "texting from an ipad" comment, I imagine she is quite young, like 3rd grade?

OPs kid is almost in high school.  What she is allowing her kid to do with regards to technology is very mild and restricted for a teenager, even if it seems permissive to a parent like you with a little kid or elementary kid.

No one except for the most extremely controlling parents or very religious parents would find OPs kid's use of technology even remotely permissive or out of the ordinary.[/quote]

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