First, they step on the message boards. Then, before you know it, they are slaloming downhill to obsessive MSN use, any obstruction of which will produce gargantuan tantrums which you are too old and frail to resist.

Invest in another computer and a router.

Um. That sounds scary. However funds will not currently stretch. Be in no doubt that I will keep you informed.

I will also erase your comments 2 and 3 when I can get access to the relevant part of my site, which is beyond human reach right now.

Yes, sorry about that: I didn't mean to be so zealous.

No, no. Zealous is good. I dare say you just clicked more than once when nothing seemed to be happening.

No, no. Zealous is good. I dare say you just clicked more than once when nothing seemed to be happening.

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Robin, you should consider erasing comment six, as we all got it.

Plus I would seriously consider P*rnyboy's suggestion. Lack of computing facilities is rapidly becoming a social work nightmare. Care orders have been considered in some local authorities.

In my day we read books, not started threads on BBC boards. I'd have been shocked beyond belief by SpottyDick69's view that Famous Five George was a butch lezzer.

(This comment has just failed due to the use of P*rn.) What kind of blog is this? Child-friendly or what?

Hello Peter.

I'm just deferring the evil day. They already spend too much time on TV, and computers. They do still do their homework though, and they are surprisingly articulate. But their own computers/phones/hovercars are on the way as sure as eggs is eggs.

And I'm quite pleased that the filter caught your comment. After I received five hundred p*rn spam comments in one day I took evasive action. Of the minimal kind, so you don't have to register or get moderated or anything which might stop a decent, casual reader from leaving a few words.

Used to get them myself. Not p*rn, but cigarettes and online gambling, two vices I just don't have.

Got rid of them with letter recognition, which was built by Tony my IT manager.

doodl

pbc is quite right although all 3 of my kids are addicted to MSN. i'm not afraid of it though as you can control who comes into chat with you, unlike other chatrooms. todd is addicted to (oh woe) online karaoke and games whilst the girls have actually learnt that google is their friend when it comes to homework.

the only problem is when they start downloading music - todd is a genuine pest and downloads the same song several times.

get thee another computer and router - i ended up saving enough, and we now have 3 computers hooked up to the internet.

Hello Radiozed.

No MSN yet. I'm agin it, and no music downloads either. My children do still play with each other, when threatened sufficiently, and I'm holding on to that.

I do not know these 'routers' of which you all speak. I assume they allow more than one computer on one internet connection. The time will come, I am sure. We still only have one operative television and that does cause occasional friction. More computers would be an admission of defeat. Such admissions have their place, but please, not yet.