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Would any progressively intelligent kid stoically reason why a parent would ban them from the internet for its apparent misuse?

Posted - February 11, 2018

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  • 46117
    Stoically reason. - Why does their reasoning have to be stoic, need to be stoic, or the idea of stoic -- have any relationship with reasoning whatsoever.

    To be stoic is to be at least outwardly unaffected. 

    Why would any kid have to argue?  If it was misued, it is dangerous and if someone is banned they could be putting lives in danger, embarrassing someone for no reason or just disobeying a rule of when the computer can or cannot be used.

    It is called parenting and structure.

      February 11, 2018 8:24 AM MST
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  • 7280
    If in the process of being banned from the internet---and especially if no clear reason was communicated to the kid---then the kid may well have been shamed in the process of being banned by the parent, and therefore it would be quite consistent for that child to be stoic about it.

    And if the misuse were due to carelessness, perhaps there would be a better approach for the parent than to ban its use.

    I can do on the internet in 3 hours what would have taken me a weekend to do in a library.  It's a tool, use it carefully and according to (good) parental instructions.
      February 11, 2018 10:27 PM MST
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  • 6098
    "Progressively intelligent"?  "Stoically reason"?  "apparent misuse"?  Just what do these things mean?
      February 11, 2018 9:59 AM MST
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  • 22891
    probably not
      February 11, 2018 2:31 PM MST
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  • 5835
    Well! Did someone learn some new words today?
      February 11, 2018 9:28 PM MST
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  • Like encomiums?. I have no idea what it means I just discovered the s at the end. I think it and 99.9 percent of the time I hit..it.. off. My teacher called me an intellectual in front of the whole class and I'm trying to carry on my tradition. Colostrum! Yay! It's real!!!! This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 11, 2018 9:49 PM MST
      February 11, 2018 9:44 PM MST
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  • 5835
    I have an answer that I think is immensely humorous, but it could be taken the wrong way, so I am keeping it to myself.
      February 12, 2018 10:15 PM MST
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  • 1326
    Most kids won't understand why parents have to make difficult decisions and discipline them until they are much older. 
      February 14, 2018 10:16 PM MST
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