I know how dare parents enforce rules on their children and not allow them to get away with whatever they want like good little anarchists. Understand that parents are responsible for everything their children do.
Yeah, tell me about it. I grew up with parents like that. It’s freakin’ emotional abuse: you get no privacy, not even as a teenager. So now I don’t care what the situation actually is — I officially hate Murd’s parents and it’s obvious why he is how he is.
I am generally in favor of privacy for everyone. However, when my daughter was a sophomore in high school, she lost her privilege to a locking bedroom door when it was discovered that she was regularly sneaking out of the house to walk to her friend’s house a mile and a half away in the middle of the night. So sometimes there are reasons.
In this case, Murd is specifically locking his door to avoid being kicked off the game he’s not supposed to be playing, because he is in trouble from getting caught on his phone in school.
It’s not a privacy thing, he’s locked his mother out of his room to avoid punishment for his misbehavior.
If you think a lack of privacy is emotional abuse you are a special snowflake. If your parents couldn’t trust you that says more about you than about them. I assume you are not a parent but just so you know children are not adults. If left to their own choices they will make bad ones. My son tried to lock his door at night so he could play video games and pretend to be sleeping and then shut it down if I knocked. He was too tired at school but forgot I was IT so I could see what time what network activity was happening and boom goes the lock down. I locked him out of the internet on all his devices then locked all his devices down with white listing only what he absolutely needed for school. He was unable to play any video games for 3 months and lost the lock on his door. If that doesn’t sound fair try playing WOW at work and you will have much more time to play it at home except the lack of money for game time internet and power part.
Wow. Insulting a total stranger and making tons of bad assumptions based on worse logic, all because of a three-line post. Just another day on the Internet, i guess.
Not my fight, but your comment, Dman, seems particularly harsh and degrading. As a fellow parent of teens, I have a number of comments here. However, having a sense of decorum, and not knowing you from Adam, I choose to treat you with the respect you have NOT shown here, and will not post them. Suffice it to say that I have never needed to question whether my children have locked their doors, but then, I treat them with respect and communication instead of blanket punishment. Sadly, it is evident that that is not always so in the world we live in.
However, in Murd’s case, this is clearly avoiding an appropriate punishment and shouldn’t be tolerated. However, I suspect we won’t be seeing him for a while fairly soon…
Please change “man” to “bag” in your name, because it’d be far more truthful.
My parents never allowed me any privacy despite not having done anything to warrant that. I get it when I was six, less so when I was 12 (and they trusted me to be home alone for 8 hours during the summers, but still wouldn’t let me have the privacy of my bedroom), and much less so when I was 19 and working and trying to find my own place, and they still wouldn’t let me put a lock on it.
What holds true for you and your kid does not necessarily apply to everyone else, and judging them based on your own limited experience is horribly shortsighted.
I *definitely* get that. My parents did the same thing. Even when I turned 18, I had to raise hell to get them to relent on that, and then I had to change the damn knob myself because they’re like “you’re an adult, if you want a lock, put it in yourself” (despite the fact that everything else was “our house, our rules, if you want somsething changed WE’LL do it”)
That’s actually a good way to get your carpet torn up. I love our cats, but when we kept them out of the bedroom one night, they clawed a freakin’ hole in the carpet trying to get under the door.
Watch his mom turn off the internet.
I was just about to say that. xD
Seriously, Murd, THERAPY. You need it.
Murd, it’ll be there tomorrow, and given how expansion launches go, probably run better, too.
Jesus if there is one thing that really freaks me out is the whole parents going “NO LOCKED DOORS IN MY HOUSE!”
I know how dare parents enforce rules on their children and not allow them to get away with whatever they want like good little anarchists. Understand that parents are responsible for everything their children do.
Yeah, tell me about it. I grew up with parents like that. It’s freakin’ emotional abuse: you get no privacy, not even as a teenager. So now I don’t care what the situation actually is — I officially hate Murd’s parents and it’s obvious why he is how he is.
I am generally in favor of privacy for everyone. However, when my daughter was a sophomore in high school, she lost her privilege to a locking bedroom door when it was discovered that she was regularly sneaking out of the house to walk to her friend’s house a mile and a half away in the middle of the night. So sometimes there are reasons.
In this case, Murd is specifically locking his door to avoid being kicked off the game he’s not supposed to be playing, because he is in trouble from getting caught on his phone in school.
It’s not a privacy thing, he’s locked his mother out of his room to avoid punishment for his misbehavior.
Gotcha. The whole locked/no locked thing is pretty triggering for me; I jumped to a conclusion based on a personal hot button. Carry on.
If you think a lack of privacy is emotional abuse you are a special snowflake. If your parents couldn’t trust you that says more about you than about them. I assume you are not a parent but just so you know children are not adults. If left to their own choices they will make bad ones. My son tried to lock his door at night so he could play video games and pretend to be sleeping and then shut it down if I knocked. He was too tired at school but forgot I was IT so I could see what time what network activity was happening and boom goes the lock down. I locked him out of the internet on all his devices then locked all his devices down with white listing only what he absolutely needed for school. He was unable to play any video games for 3 months and lost the lock on his door. If that doesn’t sound fair try playing WOW at work and you will have much more time to play it at home except the lack of money for game time internet and power part.
Wow. Insulting a total stranger and making tons of bad assumptions based on worse logic, all because of a three-line post. Just another day on the Internet, i guess.
Not my fight, but your comment, Dman, seems particularly harsh and degrading. As a fellow parent of teens, I have a number of comments here. However, having a sense of decorum, and not knowing you from Adam, I choose to treat you with the respect you have NOT shown here, and will not post them. Suffice it to say that I have never needed to question whether my children have locked their doors, but then, I treat them with respect and communication instead of blanket punishment. Sadly, it is evident that that is not always so in the world we live in.
However, in Murd’s case, this is clearly avoiding an appropriate punishment and shouldn’t be tolerated. However, I suspect we won’t be seeing him for a while fairly soon…
Thanks, Elorii. You said it better than I could manage.
Please change “man” to “bag” in your name, because it’d be far more truthful.
My parents never allowed me any privacy despite not having done anything to warrant that. I get it when I was six, less so when I was 12 (and they trusted me to be home alone for 8 hours during the summers, but still wouldn’t let me have the privacy of my bedroom), and much less so when I was 19 and working and trying to find my own place, and they still wouldn’t let me put a lock on it.
What holds true for you and your kid does not necessarily apply to everyone else, and judging them based on your own limited experience is horribly shortsighted.
I *definitely* get that. My parents did the same thing. Even when I turned 18, I had to raise hell to get them to relent on that, and then I had to change the damn knob myself because they’re like “you’re an adult, if you want a lock, put it in yourself” (despite the fact that everything else was “our house, our rules, if you want somsething changed WE’LL do it”)
Poor Murd…
Not sure if Murd’s real name is new information, but it being Brayden is perfectly perfect.
His teacher took his phone and posted it to his Guild mates.
At least Murd has a door!
I’ve never had one! my parents were not too worried about my or my brothers’ privacy!
Easiest way to get your kids to keep their door open all the time?
Buy a dog or a cat. You are not nearly as cute when scratching on the door to get in.
That’s actually a good way to get your carpet torn up. I love our cats, but when we kept them out of the bedroom one night, they clawed a freakin’ hole in the carpet trying to get under the door.
I can approve of your guild loyalty, but there are somethings much more important.