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Why Your Kids Absolutely, Positively Should NOT Own An iPod!

And if the cigarette doesn't work, try a twist of the ear. :)

A few of you guys / girls seem to believe that MR is frequented only by <25.

Untrue.

Some of us are old, grey, and wrinkly.

Like Jagger, Bono, Barenboim, etc ...

And many of us who are close to turning up the toes actually enjoy some contemporary music - B.E.Peas, steriogram, etc. :D

I wear an iPod unless I am talking to someone or I am in a meeting (although most of the time in meetings I wish I was wearing one!)

I don't see what the problem is unless the kid (adult) is using it as a shield ...
 
c'mon guys…

it's a pretty harmless article. seems like most of you commenting on how stupid it is are not "reading to the end of the article," as some would call it.

the title is entirely sarcastic, and the article itself is more of a real-life commentary. discussional, even.
 
ha ha. yeah, i thought that article was a bit too light-hearted to be taken seriously. honestly - which parent wouldn't speak to their child (especially if they're living with them) for 10 months?

anyway, if that's a pic of Angie up the top of the page... well, a prefect model parent she is then. :rolleyes: smoking cigarretes (sp?) and all.

and what sort of site is that anyway? "Parenting Taxi"? if a person has a child, and doesn't know how to be a parent, well needless to say that they shouldn't have kids, but going to a cheesy two-bit site for guidance won't help matter either.

stoid, i really hope you weren't visiting that site for any sort of important information? :eek:
 
mmm that article was nice :D
but what happens when the child's parents are just as obsessed with music as the child...i have a friend like that :D

But anyway...even if that article was negative, my parents really wouldn't have the right to make me like not listen to my iPod. After all, I've bought and/or sold every iPod that was in my possession. Not my parents. Me. I bought it with my own money, and I buy songs with my own money, et cetera. They take it away and they know I'll just retaliate with some nice Jay-Z or 50 Cent playing loudly on the living room speakers thanks to AirTunes, and if they unplug that, then really loud cacophonous sound coming from my room. Besides, I'd pause the song to listen to my parents.

The iPod is a welcome addition to my life, and a great stimulant when you're half asleep in a 2 hour math class and you can't stand the banal chattering going on next to you. Like today. Hehe. If it werent for the weird music on my iPod I really would have fallen asleep...and yes, I did get prior permission from my teacher to listen to it in class while working on the assignments :)
 
solvs said:

THIS IS A JOKE!!!

As if the guy in the dress and the comments blelow didn't give it away.
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... yeah. just like the whole site. but i think everyone knows that now. but anyway - THANKS FOR BRINGING THAT TO OUR ATTENTION!!!
 
yellow said:
Just burn 'em with a cigarette, that'll get their attention (and keep it) every time.
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tehehe!

That article reads like the writer had a deadline to meet and nothing to write about. "Hey, I know, I'll blame my son's behavior toward me not on my poor parenting skills but on the white chords hanging from his ears. And whiplash. Yes, whiplash must have something to do with it."

s.n.goat

EDIT: ok, I'm a dumbass. Viewed from a satirical angle, it's almost amusing.
 
Westside guy said:
Unbelievable. I would have thought the "tongue-in-cheekiness" of the article would be apparent to anyone and everyone - but only a very small number of posters caught it!
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Yeah, I was surprised, too. (And English isn't even my first language.)
 
Just for the record, I posted this article because it was linked from a news article I was reading about how the iPod was kicking the hind-quarters of every other player out there and I thought it an interesting coincidence. I don't think that the article is terribly accurate or even useful, but rather just a decent read.
 
she's a bad parent.

i dont use my ipod in my house if i want to listen to music i do so with speakers, me and my dads taste in music has a large crossover so it's ok, my ipod in an outdoor thing.

even if i did use it inside it certainly would not stop me talking to my dad if i wanted to, her kid dose not want to talk to her because all she ever dose is nag with lame flash cards.
 
Just a (serious) word of advice if you ever get your kid an iPod. My 11-year-old daughter saved up and bought herself a green mini. I insisted on having it inscribed with her name and paid the extra myself for that feature. It's already paid for itself as she set it down in church the other day and someone picked it up. Who knows where it would have gone if it hadn't been inscribed -- it was returned to her within 10 minutes or so. We don't let her take her iPod just anywhere, but you'd think in CHURCH it would be safe!
 
wordmunger said:
Just a (serious) word of advice if you ever get your kid an iPod. My 11-year-old daughter saved up and bought herself a green mini. I insisted on having it inscribed with her name and paid the extra myself for that feature. It's already paid for itself as she set it down in church the other day and someone picked it up. Who knows where it would have gone if it hadn't been inscribed -- it was returned to her within 10 minutes or so. We don't let her take her iPod just anywhere, but you'd think in CHURCH it would be safe!
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We gave our daughter a 3G 15GB (engraved with her name/number) for Christmas last year, when she was 15. She has certainly treated it with far more care than any of the many CD or flash-based music players she has had in the past. When we gave it to her, I wasn't entirely convinced she wouldn't leave it lying around somewhere to have it pilfered, or treat it like a $30 portable CD player and break it. Let's just say she has a bad history with portable electronic devices.
If anything, I think the iPod has helped teach her to be more responsible. At sixteen, she has a job, a car, pays her own insurance, and is still doing well in school while remaining actively involved in both the band and the tech crew and working 20-25 hours.
The iPod has not had any detrimental effect on our relationship with her at all.

BTW, that article was so satirical that I can't believe anyone who read it thought it was legit.
 
powermac666 said:
BTW, that article was so satirical that I can't believe anyone who read it thought it was legit.
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Yeah, I've been thinking about that, and the conclusion I've come to is: who are we to try and get in the way of some good, solid teenage angst?

This thread appears to be a good spot for the younger amongst us to complain about the injustices parents foist upon them, and really has nothing to do with the article. Those of us on the other side of the fence have been trying to inject some balance where it is not really wanted.
 
good point…

stcanard said:
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This thread appears to be a good spot for the younger amongst us to complain about the injustices parents foist upon them, and really has nothing to do with the article.

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good point, but it's also apparent from this thread how little people read the entire thread or the article (niether of which i necessarily frown upon, as macrumors.com has too much to read to try to follow every entire thread, beginning to end)
it's just good information to keep in mind whilst browsing.
 
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