XP Home Instability & Odd Behavior

[Galen]

In Don Cohen <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Very creative!

Seconded. I have two kids. Ages 5 and 7. They can burn CDs, play their
games, and the oldest one (my daughter) is able to make her own website.
However, when they break their PC from not listening that's very similar to
what I do. I simply don't/won't fix it until I "have time" and that's
seemingly been motivation enough for them to stop pressing random buttons
and deleting stuff. They obviously haven't access to the web without
supervision at this point so my problems are pretty much minimal to your
issues. When they're teens I plan on just plain running away as fast as I
can anyhow. Scary stuff that will be.

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[Plato]

issues. When they're teens I plan on just plain running away as fast as I
can anyhow. Scary stuff that will be.

Well now teens depend on chat just like I used to hog the families
single phone number. They cant be without chat, mostly AOL chat. It sort
of makes it easier to "enforce" the rule of not doing file sharing to
get "free" stuff as you know that comes with all the suprises.

However, by the time your kids get to be teens it wont be chat it will
be something we havnt even yet thought of yet