SS Got Told!
15 SS was making a racket last night at around 3:30 a.m. He was playing his precious Fortnite game in the living room, clapping sarcastically every time he lost. Which seemed to be a lot. It was waking me up every time he clapped.
Because of how negative he's made things for me I just try to avoid him altogether and there have been other nights where he was doing the same thing but I just put a pillow over my head and try to go to sleep that way. It's too stressful to get SO to do anything regarding the sk's
But last night I was fed up! I got out of bed and marched myself right down there.
Me: "Do you think you live alone?"
Him: "Huh"
Me: "I said, do you think you live alone?"
Him: scowls at me
Me: "You may be able to sit here and waste your life away playing the game all night, but I have to get some rest so I can have a constructive and productive day! Please stop that clapping!"
Him: Gives me the most hateful glare imaginable.
But I didn't care! The ship has sailed on me caring whether he likes me or not. I went back up into the room got in the bed and went to sleep and slept like a baby. There was no more clapping. Sure I'll hear about it later from SO, they always try to pit SO against me, but I don't much care about that, either!
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Why not shut off the internet
Why not shut off the internet? The kids 15. SO needs to be an adult and parent the kid.
You need to figure out how to
You need to figure out how to cut your router off for wifi at a reasonable hour.. 10pm or something..
I will be honest.. I wouldn't let my DH skate on things like this.
I have literally told him in the past.. "either YOU go deal with this.. or I will and believe me.. you are NOT going to like the way I deal with it."
"...either YOU go deal with
"...either YOU go deal with this.. or I will and believe me.. you are NOT going to like the way I deal with it."
Yep, said that too. And I followed through.
Next time unplug the router
Next time unplug the router and take it with you.
I like power cords,
I like power cords, personally. Take those and walk away.
Thanks for the replies.
Thanks for the replies.
Oh I definitely would have took the router away if he had continued to make noise. It's not something I'm unfamiliar with doing. back when I was engaged in their education I would do a lot of punishments like that for grades. But since I'm disengaged now from disciplining or educating them, I only do what is necessary to safeguard my own well-being and the well-being of DS and DD.
I work from home on website design, and I'm the techie of the house so I can even get sneaky and rate limit them through the router. this is a way of slowing down their connection to a point where it's useless without actually disconnecting them from the router. So there's a question of, is the internet just bad? ...or is someone doing this? Good for gaslighting I guess. But I don't do that, I usually take the high road. Plus on the few occasions where I have done that, the sk's always come running to me to fix it and I have to act like I don't know why it's doing that. And I don't like acting.
Simpler this way. Just let me get my sleep. Piss your lives away for all I care
Just let me get my sleep.
That's where I'm at too. Congratulations!
Block any of his mac addresses
oh and get some ear plugs. I can't live without then as Chef snores like an Airbus taking off