I just got home from some errands and my Nina was on my laptop. Which means she’d been on it from the moment I left to the moment I arrived home (an hour?) because it puts itself to sleep after 10 minutes without use and needs a password to wake up.
Hellooooo? Boundaries, people.
I take issue with this for several reasons.
- She jammed up the whole dang thing trying to email 19mb of photos to herself. I had to force quit all my applications and restart.
- All my windows were up – my browser history like an open book. Um. My entire secret identity life is on this laptop. She knows about the blog. I don’t know if she knows HOW to get there. Until last week, she thought my name was Psychology. But I’m sure she could find it.
- Anytime email comes in, it opens the window with the message. The private message addressed to ME.
I don’t need my thirteen year old reading my email OR my blog. She has her own computer. I don’t need either one of my kids to come stand over my shoulder and read what I am typing.
What?!
Is a little privacy too much to ask for?
Sweet Nina, if you’re reading – you’re so busted.
Seriously. Techy Fairy Godmother – how do I block an IP address?
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You want to block your OWN IP address? Then you wouldn’t be able to post….
That’s what I was thinking, but then I thought maybe you want to block her on her laptop since she may have discovered you on yours…
Am I making any sense?
I so dont have to deal with this yet! And I know I will one day. I will come to you oh wise one. And you will tell me what to do!
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Holy crap you both are in deep doo doo or is it do do? Whatever. It is crap.
Could you block your URL, but NOT whatever way you get into WordPress? I don’t know anything about it so I will just shut up now.
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What was her excuse for being on yours? She doesn’t seem like the sneaky prying type.
That has the potential for being a scream first, talk rationally second sort of moment for me. Guess you may have to lock it down whenever you leave for awhile.
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Can’t you just spank her? Do 13 year olds still get those?
Yeah, that would drive me crazy too. I foam at the mouth if I see my kids NEAR my laptop.
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My almost 11-year-old has gotten on my blog and read it before too. I was not happy about Miss Nosy reading all my private business, especially my thoughts on her. I told her not to get on my blog ever again.
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I’ve got a 6’3″ 13 year old boy who is the QB of his school football team and basketball center who’s cell phone rings off the hook from 13 year old girls. I told him he could get a MySpace but for some odd reason he used MY e-mail address since he always uses my laptop (I think he thought he had to?) so now I can check all his comments and he doesn’t even know! Sneaky, or smart? You decide. I tell him I’m allowed, as his parent, to do random MySpace checks….hmmmm! So, dear new friend, maybe you can turn this in your favor!