Grandson has used my card for games….?‍♀️

The capacity for misunderstandings and crossed wires is great with messaging/texting.

Peasblossom

Ah some of us are familiar withDr Hindsight.

And others prefer the acquaintance of Professor Alwaysright.

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Peasblossom! ?

Shelbel I don't think it was fair the way you have been pounced on for trying to help.

Gransnet seems bleak lately and I'm avoiding too many threads due to unfriendlyness

VioletSky

Shelbel I don't think it was fair the way you have been pounced on for trying to help.

Gransnet seems bleak lately and I'm avoiding too many threads due to unfriendlyness

Who pounced on Shelbel?

MissAdventure!

peasblossom Brilliant

Chewbacca. It is laughable, it really is. ?

I'm almost afraid to post on this thread?

I will, however, just to say that there is no judgement from me either. My daughter did something similar many years ago. I can't remember the detail, but it was in the days when you couldn't get a cap put on phone account spending, and her phone had to be registered to me because she was under 18. She managed to run up enormous bills three months in a row, after which I gave her phone contract to my husband and got her a PAYG.

I most certainly did have words with her on the subject? I'm sure that she didn't realise how much she was spending, but as she'd been told not to spend anything (at the time I knew what she was doing - I've just forgotten now), I was furious.

It's not the same thing as deliberately taking money, but they do need to know that it matters, both for the account holder's sanity and so that they learn that clicks can cost - forgetting that can be the downfall of adults, too.

I realise (and did at the time) that it was my fault for letting her have a phone with a contract, but that didn't make me any less cross with the little blighter at the time!

I had to write it off to experience, Shinamae, which is all you can do; but don't feel bad about it.

Thank you for your kind words doodlebug …

Doodledog!! Sorry…?‍♀️

He's 9 - too young for all this.

Take the iPad away. Explain to him why.

My grandson found my old phone which I was not aware could still connect to the Internet. He had tuned into Youtube for three mornings in a row before he finally said to me. "I like coming to your house because I can go on Youtube, Mummy and Daddy don't let me at home." It was a wake-up call for me I can tell you. From then on I have done nothing concerning technology with him without first asking his Dad. It is far too easy to make a mistake and I don't know enough to be aware of all the pitfalls. Fortunately no harm was done.
Put it down to experience Shinamae and learn from it.

Oh, Doodledog that reminded me of when my caring, sharing DD lent a phone to a boyfriend (who became an ex-boyfriend thank goodness).
The b**ger still owes her for the bill he ran up on it .....

Well, we all live and learn . . . .

Bibbity

Again. I was in no way outraged. I just did not know why OP would do that when it was completely unnecessary.
Simply highlights how uneducated some posters are regarding technology.

Bibbity You are so pompous and patronising, calling people uneducated even if it is about technology is rude and disrespectful.
My daughter is a very well respected journalist who is very knowledgeable , but if she posted about people the way you do I would be ashamed. I would feel she was not bought up properly and I had done a bad job.
You sound very nasty and quite uneducated yourself, all you have done is try to make the OP feel bad. Go on repeat again I dont care what people think of me.

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Bibbity

Oh FGS get over it.
That is after many many posts of explaining myself. Believe me I pity your children.

I wanted to help the OP. But people here must be so bored recently they just want to find offence and play the victim where ever possible.

I am so so sorry your lives are so incomplete.

Dont pity mine, they are successful and respectful, they dont feel the need to be patronising and pompous.

Again how you interpret text is not of my concern or care. The message is there. The uneducated comments were wrong. The cancelling of the card was unnecessary and adults who are ignorant regarding technology should not be handing any over to young children. It is dangerous and the defensive comments regarding my posts rather than the self reflection speaks volumes.

To be so loud and so wrong is quiet impressive.

Believe me I pity your children.

A comment that's beneath contempt.

I am so so sorry your lives are so incomplete.

And yet here you are again; obviously with little else to do yourself!

I don't.
I am 'making dinner' and sneaking Christmas Chocs while my kids have a nerf battle.

It's really simple. Know better. Do better. Technology is ever changing.

Chewbacca

^Believe me I pity your children.^

A comment that's beneath contempt.

I am so so sorry your lives are so incomplete.

And yet here you are again; obviously with little else to do yourself!

Bibbity you really are the gift that keeps on giving, I have been at work all day, I have managed to help and sort out a big problem for someone, so no my life is not incomplete, in fact I feel very satisfied at a good outcome. I feel very happy and complete.

? here's the cookie

I to have worked all day with my kids home.....what the heck I get on as well ?