Parenting Teenagers (12-18) Support Group
This community is focused on the joys, challenges and concerns faced by parents of teenagers (12 to 18 year olds). The major areas of child development include: physical development, perception and sensory development, communication and language development, cognitive development, emotional development and social development.
My 12 year old son is getting ridiculous with using his iPod Touch. We have wireless in our house so he has internet access and he just learned how to text on it via a free service. (Thankfully he only gets 15 texts a day....whew!) My question is this: what are you rules for limiting use everyday and how do you enforce it? Thanks!
Other than that, we limit computer and cell phone use when we feel either has been excessive, we tell him he is done for the day. His cell phone is not to be used during dinner and is kept on the kitchen counter so he can't sneak it (they can text without looking at the screen). Also his phone is charged in my room at night, right next to my phone so he can't use it at all hours of the night.
Computer use is usually no more than an hour or so on a day where he could play out side, no more than 2 if he couldn't go outside due to poor weather.
Good luck, its so hard with the technology that children are used to having these days!