He is going to break it
We are going on 8 months without regular cable TV and it has been wonderful. The only show my kids watch are what they can find on Netflix and any movies we have or may rent. Nicki is the only one really “stuck” to her computer watching old TV shows. She just got done watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Back in January when Nicki got my dad’s old computer we ended up just leaving the other one in Lil Tony’s room. For a while he had to watch a movie to go to bed. Then a couple weeks ago we realized that was what was keeping him up until midnight or later. With the start of school and such in the next week we decided we have to get him on a better schedule. So he is in bed watching a movie by 9pm (we have to try real hard to get this done) and he can watch a movie until about 9:45 and then the movie/computer goes off. With this change he is asleep by 10pm which is awesome.
The problem we seem to run in to sometimes with the computer is he thinks he knows how to work it and if it freezes or something he just starts unplugging things. Last night for example. I couldn’t get any sound, he had no internet connection and the keyboard wouldn’t work. It took me a good amount of time to figure out what he unplugged and where to plug it in. Then I had to reboot the computer because I still couldn’t get the keyboard to work. I really worry with him pulling all the plugs out that he will break something. We have already had to replace the vga cable once. I would prefer not to have to spend more money on stuff like that.
We have talked about taking the computer out of his room, I just hate to do this because there have been plenty of times that he just hangs out in his room playing games and watching movies and it gives me a bit of a break.
I think we will just have to figure out how to “hide” or put up all the things he shouldn’t be playing with. :-)
