LOL yup, BM did the same with SS8, and now he's upset because we won't put minutes on it. I think BM's do things like this to make us the bad guys

My BF's BS10 is turning 11 soon and he told me last night that BM is getting him a Kindle Fire and would he go half on it. He was like, NO. Aren't Kindle Fires pretty much an iPad, which is pretty much a small computer? She told BF that he likes to read and that's why she's getting it for him; but when BF suggested getting one that is just an e-reader, she said no because that's all he'll be able to do with it. True, but he's 11. WTF does he need his own "computer" for? And the fact that she asked BF to go halvsies pissed me off - they aren't married, they don't buy joint gifts. BF and I will get him something together, not he and his ex cheating wife.

SD12 has a tablet, a Blackberry, an iTouch, an Ipod Nano, a Nintendo DSi, a Wii, a Nikon camera and her daddy just bought her pink Dre beats headphones. I will patiently wait for the phonecall when BM calls in hysterics that SD got the headphones snatched off her head while walking home from school in Harlem. So pathetic.

BM told us she was buying SD6 a cell phone before she came to stay with us for the summer. DH told her that he would not permit it in our house, and that it would be put up for safe keeping while she was here.

BM himmed and hawed, but she ended up not buying it.

When SD12 was SD8 her brother (who was 22 at the time) bought her at BM's request a smartphone and asked DH and I to add her to our plan. Mind you DH and I didn't even have a smartphone back then. Yeah right like we were going to fall for that one. When my BS12 started to ride the bus home alone at age 11 DH and I got him a texting phone (no web access/no pics) and added him to our plan for 9.99 a month. Well this wasn't enough for SD and her brother to this day pays for her to have all that crap on her phone as well as BM's phone. Poor kid he has been Pas'd beyond recognition. Now SD12 says her brother is getting her an I-Phone 5. Good for them as long as I'm not paying for it.

My BFF of the last 25 years... yeah - she and her husband did this for their 7 YO daughter... AND they had her very own private line installed in her bedroom...OMG! :jawdrop: Yes - I asked her "Uumm - best friend... are you serious? How many people does a 7 year old really need to talk to?" *smh* We all saw it coming though... they just spoiled her like that. She was the only child until she was 9.

That was 7 years ago...and she is a GREAT kid now...actually she always has been! She is just a sweet, kind hearted kid; not spoiled, entitled, bratty, "me, me, me" you might think would come from being so spoiled for all her life.

Anyway... just thought I would share that little story.

Oh yeah, BM bought both SDs IPhones for their birthdays last year ... granted they weren't 7 (11 & 12 then), but they can't keep anything nice ... always losing stuff, breaking something, etc. (And the kicker is that she couldn't afford to buy groceries after she bought the iphones and had the nerve to ask SO to buy her groceries! STUPID!) And here we are a year later ... where are their iphones? One dropped in a puddle several months ago and ruined ... the other dropped on the floor and cracked the screen so it can't be used at all!

BM also had the nerve to ask SO to go in on the expensive Kindles for Christmas with her ... are you kidding me? Since when in the past 3 1/2 years have you gone in on a gift together?! Thankfully, he refused and pointed out they don't need them. She bought them netbooks 2 years ago and guess what? Those are broken as well!

Why does what BM bought for her kid bother you?
I don't get that. If she wants to buy something for her kid with her money (she didn't call and ask BF to pay half, did she?) then so be it.
My kids have Kindle Fires, smartphones, flatscreen TV/DVDs, ipods, you name it. But you know what? *I* bought them.
I think it would be amusing if XH had a GF and it bothered her. (PS: he doesn't pay CS)

For me, I can't wrap my brain around the concept of WHY all these little kids need to have all these expensive electronics. When I was a kid, it was SOOo different. I remember getting a bicycle for my 12th birthday and i thought it was the best thing EVER!! It blows my mind to see young kids with iPhones, texting away..."you're like 8, kid..CALL your friend on the phone" I swear all these kids are going to grow up with stunted social skills because they never just call eachother.

They need to get OUTSIDE, play with friends, do arts & crafts, read BOOKS! Get Creative! But instead they always have a $200+ gadget in their hands. My FSS10 is constantly on his DS, on the xbox, on the computer. I mean CONSTANTLY...he'll be watching TV and playing DS; we'll go to the store and he'll take his DS..CONSTANT. And BM wants to get him a Kindle Fire for his birthday. She can buy him whatever she wants with her money. I just don't see why he needs ANOTHER electronic item to play more games on, surf the web WITHOUT the ability to setup parental controls. Yes he can read books on it...but WHY would he want to read a book when he can play a game?!

BM did ask my BF to go halvsies on the Kindle Fire. He doesn't agree with it. Even if he did he wouldn't go half on it. Good Boy..LOL

My SD got a iPod touch for Christmas from BM's mother even though she asked my boyfriend if it was okay AND he said no! If you were going to do it anyway, why bother asking!?? But same reason it bugs me here, she breaks and loses everything! And she totally has the self-entitled attitude. Thank goodness grandma or Nama as she calls her, moved to another province. The spoiling is at least contained to 3/4 times a year! She got a ds from her grandma, promptly cracked the screen and was handed a new one! My 9 yr old son has an iPod but I didn't buy it! He bought it with his own money from his uncle for $50. I thought he was too young for it but since it was his own money, I let it go. If he breaks it, I'm not losing anything and he learns a valuable lesson. SD should be made to buy her own crap, then when she breaks or loses something, she might actually feel something about it!