November 2008 Archives

This week we are going to try on-line shopping

This is not something we are entirely happy about, we have never shopped this way before, and we are both very reluctant on giving our credit card details out over the net.

We have been told which sites are safe to use and what to look out for, but is this entirely data protection friendly???

We will just have to wait and see, it may be the start of things to come for us as a family.
A way of saving money, using it to pay our bills and more convenient and less stressful.
But will we miss our weekly shopping trip??

Kieran is now on MSN and has been set up with his own username.

This has caused us as parents some concerns on how children use MSN.

One incident Kieran told my parents who were looking after him, that he was going to his friends house over the road from where we live, but when me and Simon got home from work and checked up on Kieran he was not over the road at his friends but many streets away. He had spoken to his friends on MSN and arranged with them to meet up with him, but did not tell us the truth on where he was going. We spoke to Kieran about dangers of walking the streets and that he must tell us the truth on where he is going, we explained he must not arrange meetings on MSN without our knowledge.

Having spoken also to one of my friends, she has also being shocked by what goes on with her daughter on MSN. She could not believe the language and talk a nine year old boy was sending to her daughter, she has now blocked this boy out so her daughter cannot talk to him.

To me and Simon MSN is not child friendly, we feel when a child reaches a young adult then this may be the time to use MSN, but for young naive children it can cause a few problems unless you watch over them every time they use the computer.

With my daughter Sophie, her friends have fallen out using MSN and use MSN to talk about each other, they also use it to argue amongst one another, so still at the ages of 13 they are still not sensible.

What we have seen of MSN we are not impressed it may not be your child but the other children your child maybe talking to. Our other concerns are they do not always know who they are talking to, it could be anyone. There is an element of danger on MSN with children who are not using MSN as they should be, but what is the right age??

I have been having fun on my Sony PSP, it has some great points such as

My sister has recorded me play football with my team Rubery Juniors.
I have been taking pictures of me and Sophie with the PSP webcam
I took a trip into Birmingham where I logged on to the Birmingham fiz and looked up my favourite football team Birmiingham City to see if they were winning.
I have now got Fifa08 on PSP game,the graphics are great it shows when the ball hits the ground water splashes, if it is a wet day and the football players faces are very clear.

Best of all the PSP is so easy to use and you can use the PSP from the palm of my hand and is light enough to carry and take anywhere.I take my Sony PSP everywhere I go now.