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   Posted by: vw bug   in Mom, Tater, pd

Seems my oldest wants one of them there ipods for Christmas… along with the normal starwars, legos, motorized cars, and the list goes on… I was surprised at the ipod though. Until he explained that there were kids on his bus with ipods. Really? Yep… Kindergartners and 1st graders and 2nd graders… all on board with ipods. Folks, I will not let my children take anything on the bus that costs more than $10… like the travel doodlepad I gave them. I know it is a 45 minute ride on the bus… but an IPOD??? Is it just me or do you think that is crazy too? I might like an ipod or one for my hubby… but not my 7 year old to take on the bus. Geeze.

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8 comments so far

The Gray Monk
 1 

You’re right. This is where the “I’m better than you …” starts and where the motivation for the bullying and eventually thieving begins. Some parents just don’t know common sense.

November 6th, 2009 at 9:28 am
wRitErsbLock
 2 

yeah… despite the rule “you may not leave the house with your iPod” that we enforced, grandma did not, and so the 11 year old lost a $80 shuffle. Fine, it was several years old, and I received a new nano for a birthday, and she inherited my older nano. Which… lost for a year and a half, just turned up in her other grandmother’s couch. Someone lied when she swore she never left the house with her iPod.

She wants a Touch. I’m thinking no way in hades.

November 6th, 2009 at 11:21 am
vw bug
 3 

Gray Monk: Yep… that is happening already.
wRitErsbLock: I can’t believe that one of them had a nintendo DS on the bus. $130… plus the $40 game. Unfrick’n believable… but I saw it.

November 6th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Lemon Stand
 4 

Oh man. ::trying to fade into the woodwork as I tentatively raise my hand::

Our youngest daughter has ADHD and is on the bus for almost an hour each way. Yeah, we pretty much live in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, she CAN NOT sit still for that long so we got her a used ipod and put audio books, music and a couple of games on it for her. That was when she was in third grade. She still has it. Still uses it. And we have NEVER been called once about her not putting it in her backpack before she got off the bus. She is also not allowed to take it out of her backpack till she is seated on the bus. Before we gave her the ipod I always got at least one call a week from the school about her behavior on the bus. I have not heard a peep since. ::sneaking away::

November 6th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
vw bug
 5 

Lemon Stand: I totally get it for your situation. If it was just one kid or even two… I get it. I put mazes and a doodle pad in the backpacks for mine. But to give a 1st grader an ipod and a ds to carry on the bus just seemed too much for my mind to grasp. And it is so many of them. 3rd grade… I can see them being more responsible. My 2nd grader is pretty responsible… but it is just so many kids at such a young age. Blows my mind.

November 6th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Mrs. Who
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As a parent and a teacher, I didn’t. Of course they sneaked it…and lost it. Or probably stolen.

BUT…I have no problem with a responsible kid. I have a second grader who goes to day care after school, where they can play with it. He keeps it in his backpack and doesn’t ’show off’ with it. Which keeps it from being stolen. Oops, sorry, un-PC…meant to say ‘borrowed’.

I would contact the teacher (if you ever do it) just to let her/him know that it’s there. Not to make her/him ‘police’ it, but if it comes out…*whoops, you just lost it*.

November 7th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Bou
 7 

My issue with iPods are potential hearing loss. At this age, they don’t get ‘too loud’. I am telling you now, the hearing aid business is in for a BOOM in business with our teenagers and adolescents… when they hit their 20s. I promise. It makes me sick.

November 9th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
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November 16th, 2009 at 6:29 am
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