So right when I decide to start posting again, my computer is no more.
Apparently Cheburashka learned of a new website from her friends, and went on without my approval. The little heifer darling kept it hidden on a separate window, and each time I checked would flip back to Club Penguin. She was busted when the computer locked and started buzzing loudly, and I haven't been able to use the computer since. It rejects all attempts at virus-scanning, and won't even let me erase the damn hard drive and start over. Conficker? Who knows. But this is one meanie of a virus.
And it kind of makes no sense to punish her by not allowing her to use the computer since there is no computer to use.
So. Cue the crickets, and I'll return when I can.
Ah, teenagers.
My littlest sister is on Myspace and facebook, and has managed to keep our parents oblivious - but got the shock of her life when I called her up one day to ask why a friend of hers had left a picture of pot as a comment on her profile, and whether that meant she was doing drugs (and then proceeded to lecture her with my own experience, which amounted to, "I get that you'll want to experiment, but please learn vicariously from my vast mistakes and avoid these drugs at all costs). Anyway, she was gobsmacked and was all, "But HOW did you know?" And I was like, "Your profile is public, dumbdumb." A week later, set to private, but I'm betting she still gets on it, with the parents in the same room, and does all sorts of stuff she'd get grounded for, if only they cared enough to look at the screen.
Good on you for actually paying attention and being a responsible, aware parent. Sorry your computer had to buy it, though.
Posted by: Kathy | Friday, April 03, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Yikes, I wonder what site it was. Good luck fixing it--and I guess that was one of them self-enforcing rules I hear about with natural consequences or whatever. Bummer though.
Posted by: Wendy | Friday, April 03, 2009 at 03:25 PM
I believe untold numbers of fathers (including mine, repeatedly) said it best..."Try to have nice things, can't have a damn thing 'cause of you kids."
Posted by: carlarey | Sunday, April 05, 2009 at 04:37 PM
Time for a MAC. Get her to pay for it, that'll be punishment enough! No more allowance for 50 years!
Posted by: Sahara | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 11:33 PM