Ugh, And Ugh Again
Mar. 13th, 2004 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omimouseSo I was walking past the sunroom this morning. We have Ebon's son over, he and the girls are playing with the Play-Dough, happy, happy, waitaminute, what did I just hear?
"So you won't talk?" "Never!" "Feed her poison!"
I poked my head through the doorway and informed the kids that this was Not An Apprpriate Game, and to please find something else to play. The said okay. I walked off, slightly wincing, but I figured, okay, now they know, no problem, right?
About five minutes later, as I'm headed for the laundry machines, which are right next to the sunroom, I hear the kids again: "Get the eyedropper. Squirt it in his eyes!" "AAAHH! I can't see!" "Tie his mouth shut."
Right. The kids were told to put the Play-Dough up and to come sit on the couch when they were done with that. I went and got![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
warinbear, because I wasn't sure if I could properly explain why this was not an appropriate game. I asked them why they continued to play after being told to pick a different game. "We couldn't think of anything else that we wanted to play."
My husband wound up explaining to our children what torture was (which is what they were playing) and during this, Ebon andcatchild enter the room. After they got caught up on the situation, we had the wonderful fun of deciding proper discipline for the kids.
We're handling it by removing from them various of the privileges they had gained for mature behaviour, seeing as how they haven't been handling the mature behaviour part of that very well. They are banned from RPGs, movies rated higher than G, various board games, and various books. The ban is currently subject to monthly review, with the potential to be lifted on evidence of sufficiently mature behaviour. Bear-Cub, the ten-year-old, is reacting in a pissy, grouchy, surly, and generally whiny and wailing manner. Puppy, who is six, realized real quick that this particular ban didn't touch much of anything that she was all that interested in/old enough for in the first place, so she shrugged and accepted it. Seeing as how she was going along with the other kids' idea on this one, it sort of evens out, IMO.
If this were the first instance, we wouldn't be reacting like this. This is far from the first instance of this sort of game, and they have a distressing tendency to try such games on each other and/or the cats. And almost always when Ebon's son is around. My opinion of the boy's bio mother and step-father (now legal father) are not repeatable in civil company. Suffice it to say that I have heard some of what they let him watch, and most of it was intended for very adult audiences. We're handling it by removing from them various of the privileges they had gained for mature behaviour, seeing as how they haven't been handling the mature behaviour part of that very well.
Stuff like this is not a game, and we're trying to get the message accross to them.
sigh Please pardon the typos in the above; my fingers are not cooperating with me right now.
"So you won't talk?" "Never!" "Feed her poison!"
I poked my head through the doorway and informed the kids that this was Not An Apprpriate Game, and to please find something else to play. The said okay. I walked off, slightly wincing, but I figured, okay, now they know, no problem, right?
About five minutes later, as I'm headed for the laundry machines, which are right next to the sunroom, I hear the kids again: "Get the eyedropper. Squirt it in his eyes!" "AAAHH! I can't see!" "Tie his mouth shut."
Right. The kids were told to put the Play-Dough up and to come sit on the couch when they were done with that. I went and got
warinbear, because I wasn't sure if I could properly explain why this was not an appropriate game. I asked them why they continued to play after being told to pick a different game. "We couldn't think of anything else that we wanted to play."My husband wound up explaining to our children what torture was (which is what they were playing) and during this, Ebon and
catchild enter the room. After they got caught up on the situation, we had the wonderful fun of deciding proper discipline for the kids.We're handling it by removing from them various of the privileges they had gained for mature behaviour, seeing as how they haven't been handling the mature behaviour part of that very well. They are banned from RPGs, movies rated higher than G, various board games, and various books. The ban is currently subject to monthly review, with the potential to be lifted on evidence of sufficiently mature behaviour. Bear-Cub, the ten-year-old, is reacting in a pissy, grouchy, surly, and generally whiny and wailing manner. Puppy, who is six, realized real quick that this particular ban didn't touch much of anything that she was all that interested in/old enough for in the first place, so she shrugged and accepted it. Seeing as how she was going along with the other kids' idea on this one, it sort of evens out, IMO.
If this were the first instance, we wouldn't be reacting like this. This is far from the first instance of this sort of game, and they have a distressing tendency to try such games on each other and/or the cats. And almost always when Ebon's son is around. My opinion of the boy's bio mother and step-father (now legal father) are not repeatable in civil company. Suffice it to say that I have heard some of what they let him watch, and most of it was intended for very adult audiences. We're handling it by removing from them various of the privileges they had gained for mature behaviour, seeing as how they haven't been handling the mature behaviour part of that very well.
Stuff like this is not a game, and we're trying to get the message accross to them.
sigh Please pardon the typos in the above; my fingers are not cooperating with me right now.
