Oh I would wait for SD to ask where her tablet is. At which time I would dead-eye her and say "Well that might be something you want to talk to the resident monster about. You know, the man who takes care of you and provides you with a roof over your head. And I think he ate the tablet. You know how monsters are."

For our girls, we log them on to the wireless and "forget the network" on their tablets when they're done on wireless. They also must use their tablets in the common areas of the house if they are on our wireless. We also require them to turn their tablets in to us at night, and the tablets stay in our room at night.

We haven't had the issue of SD talking shit on her tablet, but we have had other issues (DH forgot to "forget" our wireless network and SD used her tablet for youtube, in her room, which she has been told she is not allowed to do....and of course there was the issue of idiot BM syncing the iPad with her cloud and alllll of her private pics being on SD's iPad...)...BUT if there were an issue like that, I'd find a way to block the app or URL for her device. It can be done (hopefully)...check out the management tools for your wireless router! There are lots of fun and interesting things you can do with it, such as setting specific hours that specific devices can access the signal, blocking certain sites, or blocking specific devices entirely. I feel like an evil genius being the holder of my household's wireless router info. Haven't really had to use all of those fancy features, but I sure can't wait!

And also, screenshot that fucking convo with BM and save it. Prime PAS example. Shame on BM.

"For our girls, we log them on to the wireless and "forget the network" on their tablets when they're done on wireless. They also must use their tablets in the common areas of the house if they are on our wireless. We also require them to turn their tablets in to us at night, and the tablets stay in our room at night". 'Dizzy"

Dizzy has it and I'll repeat it. Manual log on by parent only, use in common area of house such as living room, physically take possession when not in use.

This can continue until children are out of high school and will force them to become face to face socially active with the world instead of walking around like the Internet zombies you hear about walking into traffic etc.

so many problems would be avoided altogether if parents simply did not give smartphones and tablets to kids in the first place! they are all totally unnecessary!

Well thank freakin god ss12 has lost his cell phone and his ipod touch LOL!!!! I will murder my fiance if he thinks of buying him a new ipod touch. (he already had to replace its screen for 100$$ right after he bought it for his son which should have been a calling....duhhh don't buy a kid expensive electronic!!!!). He won't get him a phone though, that was BM's dad that did that. I hope someone is calling India right now with it. I think I posted earlier he hasn't even told his mom that it's lost.

You need to make friends with an internet person to walk you through the wifi settings. I am more than happy to help you do so if you want to shoot me an email and exchange numbers, it will take 5 minutes to setup what you would need! You can even block her device from connecting to your internet if that is what you want too. It's super easy, it even labels the devices "kindle" "ipad" etc. Just log into your wireless router, slip into the parental control or security area and BAM!

I didn't get a cellphone until I was 16 and I feel the same. If you give your kids wheels, then I think it's best to have at least a prepaid phone. I never lost mine but I'm sure I'll have brat kids that misplace everything!!! So there are really great options for kids now.

I am constantly collecting my FDH pay stubs and putting them in the fire box because all it takes is one picture for BM to see what he makes. She has calmed down now since she is dating a new man THANK GOD!!!!! I am so happy and hope it works out for her because I don't want this drama in my life!! But thankfully this site has given me lots of info to protect ourselves from leaving out bills, etc from prying eyes!! Thank you everyone here for that!!!

I have I guess a different problem, when ss12 is here, all they do is play xbox .............maybe ill go on the wifi and change some things ^____^

I get car sick reading anything or playing apps ....I don't know how these kids do it. I am jealous they get entertained for hours while I sit in the front seat with my head out the window. lol!!!

I love the idea of turning off the Wifi...The skids are constantly on their phones/ Ipads,and we found out SD17 calls BM from our house to complain every time DH attempts to discipline her.

I actually downloaded an app to control what SD11 is allowed and not allowed to do on her tablet.

Basically it's set where she can't go to any social media or messaging site.

She also does not have an email address and has to use mine to sign up for things (so I get an email every time she signs up). The only time I didn't get an email, and we found out she signed up purely on accident, was her Vine account (we had her shut that down right away). - This is what instigated the whole security app idea.