My son sneakily registered a screen name in his favorite iPad game even though I told him he was too young but I can’t be mad because the handle he chose is so cute…baby’s first screenname 🥹
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So funny - I was just thinking about my sons' gmail names when they were young. One chose RAD(first name)@ and the other FIRE(first name)@ - it's sweet going back and looking at our old emails and chats and hilarious. Mostly pleading for games/toys and ratting each other out 😅
This is legitimately a terrible take. Have you heard of the Libby app? Hoopla? Kanopy kids? These are all apps that offer ebooks and audiobooks to all audiences, including children, often through their local library. But lets pretend there are zero ways to “read” on an ipad at all…
On the offchance a child cannot read or learn a single intellectually rooted fact via the ipad, which is not and has never been true, many if not most children in the US start school with an ipad/chromebook. To not expose the child to an iPad at all isn’t child abuse—restricting them to the point
that they’re worse at typing and using the interface than all of their peers, placing them behind the curve at the very start of their educational careers, is *slightly* closer—neither of these things qualify as the hyperbolic abuse claim you’ve made.
I truly do wish the surgeons luck with the challenging procedure of removing your head from your ass.
Sincerely,
formerly abused child, who wishes you’d stop using our experiences as an insult to people you disagree with (and an avid user of my library)
PS: oftentimes ebooks have accessibility features like enlarged text, opendyslexic font, and alternative background colors for folks with eye issues and/or dyslexia. Miss me with that “ipads are child abuse” shit
Wow. I can’t even imagine saying that to *anyone* you don’t know online - but to say it to some whose entire career (and possibly life) is based on education is wild.
One kid is playing Final Fantasy XIV with adult supervision, chose a username based on a book character, & one day encountered a user named after the character's eventual husband!
User "doted" on my kid's character & there was much squealing.
😂
This is how parenting goes. Your kids will constantly impress or humor you doing things you said they can't/shouldn't do. The hardest part is when you have to punish them while suppressing violent laughter.
I made D&D characters for my 11-year-olds friends not knowing it would show my dndbeyond username on the printed sheets, which is my very first middle school screenname... there was much giggling and laughing.
my kid tried posting on Reddit for the first time this week and she got *ethered* for her unpopular opinion that the Emoji Movie wasn't that bad. "i felt cornered, dad! they were making some good points."
What I wish for & didn't get in my childhood cuz it's HARD...
If I did something my parents disagreed with - be told so, but not scolded for it.
I'd have taken it as "they didn't say no" sometimes, but trust would have been there. Instead, my every move was balanced against the cost of discipline.
I don't mean disobey an explicit edict, like OP said, but more like parents said no GTA & slasher movies but didn't require permission for every game or movie.
Once I could make judgements, let me judge! I wouldn't have kept so many secrets if telling didn't result in punishment.
Keep your kids away from any device w / internet. It will always be a mistake. Let them learn through actual real life first. Then, maybe, it won't be so rushed. Letting my kid have a tablet was one of the worst mistakes I ever did. They were eleven and the internet wasn't even that bad, back then.
Show the kid how to make things, do crafts, be creative... anything but video games & devices with internet. I wish I could go back. My kid was creative, smart, an artist, etc. Even when you think it will be fine... it won't 😔 From a parent to a parent... raise them without video games and internet.
My son told me his video games prepared him for his job as a recruiter. Specifically Madden taught him how to quickly and accurately analyze qualities in players while putting together a team. Or something like that. I don’t play video games. 😂
My son really picked up reading through the Pokemon game on the switch. He had to read out loud the prompts, but got significant screen time, so he thought he was winning in the deal.
Broke: omg what’s his screen name???
Woke: what was YOUR silly first screen name?
(Mine I’m pretty sure was something like strawberryvenom with numbers because of Twilight lmfao. 😭🤚🏻)
I was recently working with my son on college admission stuff. He logged into a portal on my laptop with the password incorporating his toddler nickname. It was kind of sweet.
So cute. Ok, we got that out of the way. It’s amazing the creativity and sneakiness that these youngsters possess. So, what happened next? 😅😅😅These kids are savages. Keep one step ahead, dad
Years ago my son wrote on a door in sharpie and covered it with a post it note. When I uncovered it I couldn't be mad cause it said I love mom. Lol they get you.
Just curious, do you play games with him? For instance, my mom would always play Nintendo games with me as a kid, and we have the fondest memories of it and still talk about it to this day. Highly recommended bonding experience.
I imagine it's fairly rare, but I'm one — I've been DarkTwinge or Twinge since 1997! Hit that sweet spot of 'unique-enough name' + 'not embarrassed by it years later' to stick around.
Very thankful I decided to switch to something different while I was still young. Can't change your steam username though unfortunately so that one's following me to my grave.
It's the actual account login that you can't change
My understanding is that they've used it as a primary key in the DB, so every linked table entry references it, which is PITA to change
The account name itself can not be changed. My account was originally the "family" account, so it's a random sports team, set of numbers, and two words have a z instead of s... I've begged Steam to let me change it. They said the only option was to make a new account entirely.
I’m a grown ass adult who last year let his adult son talk him into the gamer tag POTUSCornPop. It’s still funny but it’s going to age itself fast. Now I gotta pay $10 if I want to change it because I still had my free name change. LoL.
So glad I changed mine around a lot. I was too young for chatrooms and somebody being able to find me elsewhere on the internet (my neopets!) would have been worrying.
When my son wrote all over the walls with a magic marker, I took photos to share with friends and family praising his spelling. It was perfect. The color names of walls, the bathrooms were numbered, and so on.
After that we kept Markers locked up and refer to them now as "loose nukes".
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Then Game_Reaper cause I would search bargain bins like a grim reaper looking over the "dying" games soon to leave Walmart.
Sincerely,
formerly abused child, who wishes you’d stop using our experiences as an insult to people you disagree with (and an avid user of my library)
1st rage quit
1st forgotten password
1st use of "69" in a user name because it's hilarious and rude no-one has ever thought of it before.
User "doted" on my kid's character & there was much squealing.
😂
-E
But I also recall Handle from CB days
says the creature who changes screen names every decade or so for exactly that reason.
His name is not even remotely similar to John
Often can be seen as dubious of a peer's wondrous tale/confident misinformation.
Supervised. Secret parental monitoring & helpful software... never say you can see their activity or trust is gone & rebellion sets in.
If I did something my parents disagreed with - be told so, but not scolded for it.
I'd have taken it as "they didn't say no" sometimes, but trust would have been there. Instead, my every move was balanced against the cost of discipline.
Once I could make judgements, let me judge! I wouldn't have kept so many secrets if telling didn't result in punishment.
Sorry to babble.
Woke: what was YOUR silly first screen name?
(Mine I’m pretty sure was something like strawberryvenom with numbers because of Twilight lmfao. 😭🤚🏻)
– Attributed to Emma Goldman
Bring your dance soundtrack to the next protest and dance like no one's watching
Mine remains not embarrassing so it stuck.
You can edit both Profile Name and the Custom URL under your profile.
My understanding is that they've used it as a primary key in the DB, so every linked table entry references it, which is PITA to change
After that we kept Markers locked up and refer to them now as "loose nukes".