Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Or public libraries? What is the the sort of limit in them...becUse of you limit at home but let your kid go to a library and they can do more there, what is the point....

Not speaking on behalf of my LA (obviously...) but we have a blacklist of sites that we keep up to date. We also have people who - as users - do everything they can to get round this. Strangely this can have the useful effect of picking up sites that we weren't aware of. But it is very much a blacklisting out rather than a whitelisting in.

A bigger challenge I would suggest is that children tend now to have devices capable of accessing the internet and that from those they can access anything. Most kids know where their local wifi hotspot is, even if their parents don't get them a data plan. As they are out and about at the time their parents won't know what they are looking at.

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Looked at a nice house today. Detached, really nice garden, has been rented out for a few years so inside is basic but liveable, house is 50s construction so it isn't falling down yet. Problems: close enough to the a3 to be able to hear the traffic (in the garden not in the house), price a bit toppy, and 18 minutes walk to the station which is the biggest problem.

Our friends who were buying in the same area just had their purchase fall through. Survey said house needed £150,000 of work!!

We are about 20 mins from the station. It never seems an issue, but we regard it as part of our daily exercise. YMMV on that. I'd be put off by the traffic noise, though.

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

Silly question how many people have more than 1 tv per couple? we have one and the SS's have to share when they get here and it annoys them. But I don't like the idea of having more than 1 tv in the living room, which makes me terribly old fashioned I think

We have one TV in the house, so you're less old fashioned than us.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

these are such difficult decisions and I often wonder how parents balance them...I 'm not sure I could.

I find the thought much harder than many other of the questions I see or hear discussed by parents here and I don't think in real life any people I know have ever wondered about the decision, either not worried about it or not considered it a possibility.

We have worried about:

accessing inappropriate sites, accidentally or deliberately

balancing allowing what their peers are allowed with sensible restraints

time spent networking rather than working

getting enough sleep without distractions

facebook / msn friends

cyber bullying

homework cheating

online spending

encouraging the kids to impose their own restrictions on what is appropriate and what is not.

We definitely got it wrong in places. But I guess a parent who cares about these things is infinitely better than one who doesn't.

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

We have one TV in the house, so you're less old fashioned than us.

I find not owning a telly quite impressive.

My mate whose funeral I went to in Cumbria never had a TV. He'd been in the team that isolated haemocyanin, had a dance named after him, and helped survey for the Channel Tunnel and contributed to a book that was so expensive only governments could afford to buy it (over £150,000 per copy) - about petroleum geology of various countries before you start wondering.

He reinvented himself every 15 years and when he took a day off work in his 60s and I told his class it was to attend his daughter's birth his class said "Respect!". :beer:

TV-less people don't half seem to get stuff done!

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I am doing some experimental cooking today. Trying to make Gigantes (Greek giant butter beans in a tomato sauce), which are £2.99 a jar in Sainsburys. Have copied the ingredients, which somewhat unhelpfully just say "herbs". I've added herbes de Provence, which are probably totally wrong, but at least are Mediterranean, so I could just end up with some French giant baked beans. Hopefully they will taste nice, no matter how unauthentic:o.

I saw some of those at a Food Festival I went to. Had never seen/heard of any such thing and as I had my camera in my hand I took a photo

PasturesNew

PCs/kids - you're supposed to have the PC in the living room where you can see what they get up to until they're about 16.... on the other hand, they all have smartphones or access to smartphones and the PCs of friends where there are no controls. So you're only in control in one room of your house in the whole world.

TV: I have one borrowed portable. When I get a house I'll have a small flat screen TV as CRTs are too big/heavy for me to cart about - and take up too much room in smallish rooms.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

I think the really interestingk thing about tv and Jamie oliver in the news and the fury is that no one actually ha to buy a tv. CRT tv's are on free to collect ( or what ever) all the time. The only reason we replaced the big CRT we were given was th at we have to shuffle furniture a lot, and the very big CRT was really heavy plus I dislike big tvs.

I think at some point power consumption might become an issue though presumably a modern LED on energy saving mode consumes a lot less electricity than a hulking 36 inch crt from yesteryear? I know out leccy bills are very low now all our bulbs are led or compact fluorescent.

PasturesNew wrote: »

PCs/kids - you're supposed to have the PC in the living room where you can see what they get up to until they're about 16....

Advice from even a few years ago is quite quaint really - our 3 have a PC each (because I think they are much better value than laptops as they can be bought for peanuts then upgraded as necessary but most of their friends probably have a laptop, tablet, smart phone, ipod and nintendo ds that can all access the internet and no doubt the boys also have xbox 260s/ps3s which can as well.

hjd

GDB2222 wrote: »

We have one TV in the house, so you're less old fashioned than us.

And another vote for just one TV in the house.
If it was just me living here, there would be none.

zagubov

hjd wrote: »

And another vote for just one TV in the house.
If it was just me living here, there would be none.

Hi hjd!:wave:

Hope all's well.

Don't know if I'd miss the telly. However the zag family (sans m'good self) went to see the X factor being filmed and so it's a regular must-see in the casa zagubov.