Would you allow your kid to be an active part of myLot?
By ag_abscruzmd
@ag_abscruzmd (2283)
United States
March 5, 2007 6:58pm CST
In the school where I'm working, one teacher was complaining about her daughter, 14 years of age, who's a member of myspace and other sites. She said she's considering disconnecting the internet because it seems that her daughter is becoming too obsessed with these sites. What do you think should be a good advice to her? What if your kid is also a myLot member and is active in this site?
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7 responses
@raonyc (123)
• Brazil
6 Mar 07
I would try to find out why they are spending so much time in posting and no in other things.
It has to be equilibrated as verything in life.
Disconnecting from internet could help to avoid the child to be connected, but she would not getting a solution for the unknown root cause.
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@ag_abscruzmd (2283)
• United States
6 Mar 07
Oh, that's right. Internet disconnection is not the solution to the problem. I would give this advise to my co-teacher about finding out the root cause of her daughter's not balancing her time well. Thanks for the response!
@raonyc (123)
• Brazil
6 Mar 07
You are welcome.
I hope problem can be identified and solved.
It normally happens that children abuse of internet because some communication issues and because they get normal success on what they are doing. Normal life gives no many satisfactions sometimes. Computers gives you what you ask ;)
Good luck.
@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
6 Mar 07
She must take up the matter with her daughter first before unsubscribing the internet. It is okay for our kids to be doing the internet for as long as it is within reasonable limits. What are the limits? The daughter must be given the chance first. After putting everything down in black and white and after having given her daughter the chance to observe it, that's the right time for the teacher to make her appropriate move.
All of us will not desire that our children will make their schoolwork suffer in favor of surfing the internet. Nor will we welcome the sight of our kids sacrificing sleep because of surfing the net. Everything will have to be in their proper perspective so none of the right things will be sacrificed. The net is supposed to enhance life, especially on the aspect of ease of information and communication dispersion, and not to make life wrongly lived.
@ag_abscruzmd (2283)
• United States
6 Mar 07
Very well said! I will give her this advice. I'm sure this will be of great help. Thanks for the response!
@delina123 (2453)
• Canada
6 Mar 07
I think my kids would be to young because they are only 10 7 and 1 years old. I think I would if they were around 18 years of age.
@ag_abscruzmd (2283)
• United States
6 Mar 07
Well, I have to agree with you that 18 would be fine. I just hope the constant responding to discussions wouldn't be so addicting to the point that studies are compromised. You must be a responsible mom anyway. Thanks for the response!
@beaniefanatic13 (5076)
• Grand Junction, Colorado
6 Mar 07
My daughter is a member here and she also has a myspace account. She has been here for as long as I have she has 125 posts and has started 4 discussions, she's active but not very due to school and such. I think that it's the parents responsibility to monitor the time ones child spends on the computer and what sites they frequent.A teacher should no this better than most, that to much of anything can be a bad thing. The teacher needs to set some ground rules about the computer. My daughter isn't allowed to use the computer except for school work as long as she has homework to do. So, for the most part she just plays on the computer on the weekends or at best 30 minutes a day during the week. During the week is probably an exaggeration, but I'm trying to show that it would be reasonable.
That's the advise that I would give. :)
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@ag_abscruzmd (2283)
• United States
6 Mar 07
Thanks for the advice! Actually, her daughter is my 8th grade student in Physical Science, and she's really a lot of work! I mean she's really stubborn and doesn't listen to her mom. You're right, she really needs to be monitored. They also have to compromise on a schedule but not totally restrict her. Thanks for the response again!
@mikeyr6000le (2123)
• United States
6 Mar 07
I would love it if my kid was a member of this site. We could both be making money. As far as being a member of those other sites, like myspace. I would want that kind of monitored. Those sites can be dangerous. I also don't see how people can be on there for hours at a time. there isn't much to do on there as far as I can see.
