my kid is 10 and we got him one: he has to be by himself some so it was necessary. We were going to wait until next year when he started middle school, but Covid pushed us to since he has to be home alone some
I can't wait to read the rest of the thread but couldn't not post that this is when the murder would happen in my house.
Also El Tiburon I get that this wasn't all done while you were sleeping but I still fucking demand sleeping advice because holy shit. TIA.
Got my oldest one on his 12 birthday. He is 6 years older than our middle kid. Got middle kid & youngest kid (11 & 10) a phone to share this summer. When school starts it will be just middle kid's, will get youngest her own phone next year
You should write a book, because you appear to have solved parenting. Enjoy your retirement condo he buys for you in 20-30 years.
my parents wouldn’t let me have a phone until i was a sophomore and even then it was a tracfone i had to pay for myself.
ohhh he can be a real fucking asshole. He just loves making money. He’s a really good kid but he’s going to be a huge pain in the ass as a teenager.
When life was normal, my son’s s habits were pretty regimented. He plays soccer and is very active, so he would pass out by 9:00-9:30 most nights. Since all of this coronavirus mess and virtual schooling, his routines are completely out of whack. And based on the fact that pretty much all his best friends were on the same schedule, it’s not unique to my house. The kids would be up playing until 2:30 in the morning sometimes, and even worse when there were sleepovers with the 2-3 kids whose families we knew for sure were basically shut-ins and low risk. Plus, I’m deaf in one ear and sleep with a tower fan on my side of the bed so if I happen to be sleeping on my good ear I can’t hear shit.
I appreciate your honesty. Clearly that trait hasn't taken root with your 9 year old yet (but I'm sure it will eventually). I blame his mother.
my 15 and 12 year olds got them in the the 3rd or 4th grades. Just seemed like the normal thing to do.
I charged $200 playing warcraft on AOL in like 5th grade. Seems quaint by comparison. I knew I was fucked when my dad called my friend's parents and told them I had to leave immediately to come home.
Me and some buddies ran up like 100 bucks calling the Freddie Kruger 1-900 hotline one night. What sucked is my older brother and his friends were dialing 1-900 sex lines the same night in the other room. So when I admitted to the Freddy thing my parents didn’t believe I didn’t call the sex lines too.
Fraud claim wont work. Its parents responsibility to control their card. If it was stolen you'd be cool but someone in your household making unauthorized purchases will be denied. Your only chance is microsoft pulling a bro move and refunding you.
Don't punish him for doing a microtransaction punish him for wasting money on a shit game then find him a new one. Just a heads up Rocket League is going free to play soon.
Tib’s kid be like “how much pops? $2k? Yeah my bad. Could have be been worse, right?” Little does Tib know it’s about $10k total.
I did something similar in 2nd grade. I think I was just supposed to put the change back on my dad's chest of drawers or something. They eventually caught on that the money wasn't being returned and I told them the lunch lady was keeping the change and they believed me and made it a thing with the school. I learned to lie better after that about non-monetary things. My dad is CPA so that kind of fuckery wasn't really possible.
It took a fortnight just for you add up those charges The sequel thread in a few years about how AT&T is charging your 8k in data overages for all the porn he’s streaming will be fascinating to watch unfold.
Good news El Tiburon Fortnite’s V-Bucks are getting cheaper https://www.polygon.com/fortnite/20...ing-epic-games-google-apple-store-ios-android
God damn, catching up on this thread and this is so damn funny to me. I'm not an investor and play it safe of having contributed to your regular 401k with employer match (mostly use a Roth IRA now), but it's so damn funny you picked a stock, of yes a good company, that went to shit because of the housing crash. I guess if you had it in any index fund it would have lost money but you'd have probably made a profit after 2011.
Don't know how I missed this thread but my 11 year old pulled this shit on my wife. This post actually belongs in the stupid wife thread. She set up his xbox but didn't put the controls on. He was told not to purchase anything without asking first. He immediately started buying games and Fortnite add ons. When she got the emails about it he told her had xbox credits and that the purchases weren't actually going to charge her. She fell for it . He only shook us down for a few hundred before I caught on to what was happening.