| rocketpig said: My favorite part was how her children took the DS off her desk and later removed it from her bag and hid it from her. Nice way to teach your children respect for their parents. Stop blaming a small blue bit of plastic for your inadequacies as a mother, lady. |
This is exactly the point I was going to make!
I understand that young children can be a handful (particularly 4 of them) but if she had applied the same totalitarian insistence on the rotation (and provided consequences for complaining about giving it up when it wasn't your turn anymore) she might have been able to make it work.
The simple fact of the matter is that as was already mentioned any time you stick 1 very popular toy in the mix with 4 children who want to use it you've just created the problem. You must then immediately create a solution that involves rules and boundaries or it WILL get out of hand. They honestly didn't need 20 games either...they could have gotten 2 DS lite and some games and that alone would have alleviated tons of problems.
As for their fixation on it that is simple, you let them know how long their allowed to play and that when you tell them to get off or their time is up you expect them off immediately and failing to do so means they lose the privilege for set period of time.
Honestly life is full of these types of activities that are easy to get lost in. The DS was an opportunity for her to teach her children how to responsibly partake in those activities without losing thier heads over it. She couldn't step up to the challenge and her kids suffer for it..not just because they don't have the DS but because the lesson the learned is a bad one.
@lingsys,
Nobody thinks its easy, they think she is bad at it...slight difference.
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