jsut wondering if any ppl out there have any convincing arguements to make my parents let me have my computer in my room.

it sucks because i never have any privacy wen doing stuff (not dirty), and my mum also gives me heaps of chours/jobs wen i am on the computer! i have tried to ask nicly but they wont let me, so i have realised that i need a fair argument for them to consider it

i am still currently going to school, i cant seem to think of an arguement myself!

p.s im sry if this is the wrong place to put this thread, i didnt no any where else to put it

My 12-year old daughter has her own computer in her room.
I put a parental control program (Cybersitter 9) in it, which limits her internet access to certain hours and duration, as well as what she is allowed to access.
She is quite responsible, and does not need anyone looking over her shoulder.
It works fine for her, and we as parents have peace of mind. She can use her PC unlimited for any other (non-internet) activities, as long as her school-results stay the way they are (she happens to be top of her class (6th grade primary)).
The only enforced rule is, that she takes regular brakes when she is on it (about 5 minutes after every 45 minutes).
Try something like this, maybe your parents would go along similar lines.

Is this "cyber-sitter" a free program. I tihnk i should put it on my 15 year old brother (hes 2 years older than me) HAHA that'll teach him a lesson or two. .

You could always say that you work better on homework without distractions. I know that its always true, even though i have a computer in my room i always get nagged for jobs. But im the 'Pc tech" guy in both of my houses so i can spend pretty much as long as i fele like on the computer. I.e today i spend about 8hrs so far and theres still about 3 more i can fit in.

But i work for 2 hrs a day for my bro digging him dirt jumps for his bike. $6 hr with rests so i aint complaing.

besides from distacrtions, they want a reason why i need it in my room, what could i say?

Say that you don't want to distract them. Here is what you should do, by a Home theater system with a high watt subwoofer and play a war games. That should be a good reason to let you put your computer in your room. Also play some good songs with a good beat (not rap though, rap sucks NOTE: Rap is crap, because rap is in crap)

Im not sure if that is the answer...

As far as i am concerned, i have always liked computers and i have been in the same boat youre in right now. I feel for you, it has been quite a task persuading my parents. I would ask them why they have a problem with letting you, then try to fix it. My parents told me that i needed to be more responsible, so i tried to do that, i.e. doing chores because i "want to", offer to help a sibling with homework, etc. I wish the best

Sean

well i have my computer in my basement whitch is kool its been down here sdince i was in 4th grade, but even though im 12 now whenever i come up from the basemet to go to be my mom says "what were u doing on the computer" and im like uhhh i was on the internet, i usually play games go on techspot but my mom or dad have no problem with it, i dont know what u could tell ur mom its kinda hard, and i know how it feels to have wwill let u put it in ur room

I see 2 options.
1. You buy your own computer, by an old one or something, you can get them really cheap if you can find someone selling. If you are just going to be on the net and or watching porn and doing homework, something like a P2 300 with Windows2000 or 98 will do.
2. Convince your parents to do what RBS does with his daughter. Have them install some netnanny type stuff if they don't trust you.

I think I'd be trying to do Option #1 if I were you.

What else are they for?

Tell them that homework will be a lot easier if u have your own PC and workspace alone to do it...then make sure u can also game on it ;-) because c;mon who does "homework" nowadays? geez

Thats what i assumed .'

Ph30nIX

awww, its so true, ;(
lol,

But guess wat, my dad went out and bought me a crappy computer jsut as SNGX1275 said i should do my self,

thanks for the advice everyone

But a crappy computer is better then no computer...Congrats!


Sean

I had to throw in my 2 cents worth. I missed what age HughJass is. But it really doesn't matter.
I'm lucky that my kids are grown. However if I still had some at home... buy your own computer..great... it's still in my house and I'll still make the rules for it.

I'm still going to check you out, make sure that you or your friends aren't somewhere that I don't allow (yes.there go those porn sites).

I'm the computer nut in my house and I'm a tech for a living. I know how easy it is for kids to work around things. My pc would be in a family room with access to all and snooping for Mom. :knock:

I know what you are saying, being a teenager whose parents try and control what i look at. THey check the history fo IE for the sites i go on. BUt i use Firefox so they never really check the right thing!


Sean

1.Well if you cant have it in your room why dont you....
Well build an armed computer viewing room around it that only you have access to.
And after your done using the computer delete all of your history cache and Temporary files on your computer.

2.Or you could just suck up to your parents and be so nice to them that they would soon break down and giver you the computor in your room.

3.And if all else fails you can start learning how to make websites and get lots of website books in your room and tell them that you need to make websites for a client.

4.That is the only way I got my internet back but in this case I wasn't lieing and really needed to make a website for a client.

hahaha good one bill gates

but the thing that really sucks is that the computer doesnt work and it has been about 2.5 weeks and will be another 2 weeks until it should be operational

windows NT sucks!

What's the problem with NT, if all you want to do is browse the internet?
At least you don't have to worry about all the crap-problems from XP!

Crap-problems? Only problems with this XP computer we've had in 14 months is one dead & one very screwy modem. Heaps of problems with the large network of mainly XP computers at school though, trivial **** with no real reasoning.

hmmm well it loads up and says press F1 to start setup/bios thingy, (the hard drive has jsut been formatted), so i press F1 with the NT disc in the drive, hoping it will start, it has 2 beeps and then says start with network thing
after that it says no OS found please insert boot disc and press f1 to start again
after that it goes back to the starting of network device or some sheit, then goes to the:
please insert boot disc and press f1 to start again

however one time it did get into the setup (no clue how), then it setup fine until it asked where i wanted to install the OS, i selected the drive and it says that it needs to be formatted

which i can understand, then when i told it to formatt is said drive is to big to format (its only 13gb)!!! (WTFing HELL)
no i have 2 of the same computer the other computer has 2 drive ( 13gb and 40gb)

i set it up and it had the same error and said that both the drives are to big to be formatted, so i pulled em out and formatted them on mi OTHER good computer it all went good,
the setup said that the drives had to be formatted again (??? they have jsut BEEN formatted u stuipid computer) and then it had the fricken this drive is too big to be formatted

for the record they are IDE drives 3.5inch (im pretty sure)

so with all this annoying me i pulled out my hd of my good computer and put it in the other crap computers, it had the same thing

so after all this i have found out it ISNT a bad harddrive,

i tried windows xp on the crappy computers -- still have same thing
the type of computers they are are [IBM power computer 300GL]
with p3 450mhz, 256/512mb ram

it think that this might have something to do with it, when it is on the screen b4 the "no operating system found, press F1 to repeat boot sequence" it says

" PXE-E61 media test failure, check cable"
WTF

please help me