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He wants these features precisely because he is trying to be a good parent! Or do you expect him to monitor his children's iPad usage literally every minute th
by socialist_coder 9y ago
He wants these features precisely because he is trying to be a good parent!
Or do you expect him to monitor his children's iPad usage literally every minute they are using it?
- simonh 9y agoI don't expect to monitor my children's iPad usage at all, other than literally seeing what they do from time to time and talking to them about it. I have no time at all for this sort of intrusive monitoring of everything children do every second. I think it's deeply unhealthy and pushes parent child relationships into confrontational situations, where what we really need to be doing is building up trust and responsible attitudes. If a parent can't do that, then no amount of surveillance and intrusion is going to fix the problem.
- eveningcoffee 9y agoNo, he is complaining that he can not be a lazy parent. You actually have to explain what is what and what is acceptable and what is not and you have to explain why. Some thing he is complaining about are simply annoyances. Some things show complete unwillingness to do the parenting. If your child is sneaking into your room to steal something then the solution is not a bedtime lock (and if it is really necessary then you can simply but it behind a real lock). Did Nintendo have a bedtime lock? Did PCs or Macs have a bedtime lock?