What are the small privileges you have been enjoying in your home is slowly
By Bala
@balasri (26537)
India
10 responses
@sid556 (30953)
• United States
27 Sep 09
None of my children have ever taken any of my privileges. I don't think they would even try to. As they were growing, there were times that they acted out and I took some of their priviledges away but not the other way around. Do your kids do that to you? 
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@balasri (26537)
• India
27 Sep 09
I do not take it that way.I never feel that my privileges are snatched away.But always felt an elation of giving whatever my daughter asks for.She too is not a demanding child.Well at some point in life we all start to live for others we love the most .Don't we?
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@sid556 (30953)
• United States
28 Sep 09
Ok I see what you are saying now. My children have never ever taken any of my privileges away from me but because I love them and they are my top priority in my life, I have willingly given up many of the things that I would not have had I not had children. Yes, we do give up certain things for those we love. I guess I've just never looked at it as they have taken them from me. It all came quite natural. Because it was a choice I made, I guess it never felt as if I sacrificed anything. I'm talking in circles aren't I? I don't mean to. sorry. I misunderstood your question entirely, I believe. I mean I just never looked at it from that point of view. I've raised my girls on my own. I worked and came home to them for the most part. It was what I wanted. What did I give up when I had my kids? I don't know. I'm sure I didn't do things or buy things that I would have if I didn't have kids but I've never felt that I gave up anything or that I have sacrificed anything. If I felt any sacrifice at all, I would say there were times when 3 of them were at home and I was watching my grandson full time & working full time that yes...time to even relax required some creative planning. 
@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
29 Sep 09
LOL!
What a great point Bala! Everything is being hijacked by our growing children in our home e.g. TV, computer, Newspaper and mobile phones. When they were not mature and were very young, we used to take care of them and now they have become grown up, they take care of themselves and also take care of privileges, which were exclusively our domains. Whenever I am sitting on my home PC, either my son or daughter will ask me – “How long will you be sitting on computer and before you sign off, just allow us to sit in your seat, so that we could continue our work or if they have noticed that I am sitting for more than half an hour, they would say, you are already there for more than half an hour, now it is our turn………LOL”.
What to do in such situations, I fail to understand.
What a great point Bala! Everything is being hijacked by our growing children in our home e.g. TV, computer, Newspaper and mobile phones. When they were not mature and were very young, we used to take care of them and now they have become grown up, they take care of themselves and also take care of privileges, which were exclusively our domains. Whenever I am sitting on my home PC, either my son or daughter will ask me – “How long will you be sitting on computer and before you sign off, just allow us to sit in your seat, so that we could continue our work or if they have noticed that I am sitting for more than half an hour, they would say, you are already there for more than half an hour, now it is our turn………LOL”.
What to do in such situations, I fail to understand.
@balasri (26537)
• India
29 Sep 09
Well our responsibilities increase in proportion with our expenses.We have to buy certain things for our own use and give way to them to use the gadgets available at present.It is all part of growing up.Sweet and enjoyable though.Is it not so Deepak?And I hope that you know that I have only one daughter who is 13 years old.How about your children Deepak?
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@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
29 Sep 09
Yes, I buy your arguments and I feel that we should have at least two sets of gadgets so that we could enjoy our liberty in operating those gadgets, while children play with their own.
Yes, it is all part of growing up and we have to accommodate it.
My son is also 13 and my daughter it a teenager.
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
28 Sep 09
Our kids are grown now but I never did mind the girls using the phone, televisions or computer in the house when they lived here. It was all a part of growing up and teaching them to share as well. I wasn't so nice about sharing my car..lol
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@aseretdd (13729)
• Philippines
27 Sep 09
Well, you got it right... my tv time has been taken away by my 3 year old... and every night i have to fight for my right to watch the news... because she keeps on insisting that she wants to watch cartoon... well sometimes its cute and other times irritating... but we are slowly learning how to compromise...
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
28 Sep 09
I have one and only son and he is already working. Well during the time he is in the house he certainly would manipulate the computer and that is no problem to me because I am anyway during the day already overexposed to computer in the office. He also would mostly watch TV shows that I do not enjoy but that is no problem to me. I have all other tasks to do in the house that I could not really find time to even spend an hour on the TV. But with the computer, when I need it my son is gracious enough to give me some time to work on it.
@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
29 Sep 09
We don't have a child at home, but we did have my huaband's teenage son stay with us one summer. We had two TVs and two computers in the house at the time. Cory shared his father's computer, and I had my own. As for the TV's, Cory and his Dad liked to watch the same stuff, so those two sharing a TV wasn't an issue either.
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
27 Sep 09
Here is the answer though my child is an adult.
I would not say that any such thing is taken by my child.First of all , that poor thing does not have much free time. Secondly, if at all he has, I would allow him full space with whatever he asks. It can be either a small bit of T.V. or on very rare days [this would be for two days a year at max] when his laptop does not connect fast and he takes my desktop for some purpose.
@Mirita (2668)
• United States
27 Sep 09
probably my high defininion TV is a big privilige since is
kind of unique to be able to see movies this way.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
28 Sep 09
Well the one thing I have lost a lot of is television time! During the weekends when we are all at home there is very little chance of my husband and I watching films that are beyond G rating; all we watch are DVDs like Kung Fu Panda, Ice Age, etc over and over again! I remember the days when Sundays were OUR movie days...
