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Why are you okay with someone milking your child's attention for profit?

• junkscience2017 9y ago
  Found the non-parent! Hey we all started out in the same place, coming home from the hospital with our bundles of joy...envisioning a future when our kids are either curled up in a corner reading "Godel, Escher And Bach" or disassembling a motherboard for fun... unfortunately your retrospective fantasy childhood is not what your child actually wants, and by time the teen years hit, you have lost dictatorial power
  • ThomPete 9y ago
    I personally don't have any illusion that they should read Godel, Escher and Bach or anything like that. It's much more simple in that age. If you want to spend time on your ipad/iphone/computer/xbox. Either have fun participating in something, see something someone else spend a lot of time creating (tv shows, cartoons etc) or learn something. There is no need for them to become a couch potato at that early an age.
    • junkscience2017 9y ago
      report back when you try this strategy with a teenager
      • ThomPete 9y ago
        I would never try this strategy on a teenager. My boys are 4 an 8 it works on them. With teenagers, it's about something else.
• gilbetron 9y ago
  Because they provide value to him?