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Moggy wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Moggy wrote:My kid is now at an age where he wants a TV in his room. I'm ok with it (the wife not so much!) but don't want him taking the piss with TV watching.

We have an old TV that I could set up for him, but I was wondering if anybody here has used smart plugs to control their kids TV habits? If so, is there a decent one out there that can be set to not allow the TV to be in between certain times e.g. the TV won't switch on between 7pm to 7am?

We have some nooie smart plugs for which you can turn the power on/off, put it on a schedule or put it on a timer, all from your phone. It's very to set up, the only issue is if your son figures out he can just unplug the tv plug from the smart plug to bypass your control

I think this kind it functionality is pretty standard for most smart plugs anyway.

Cheers, sounds like what I am looking for.

He's a clever boy and will work out he can remove the smart plug. But he'll be told that if he gets caught doing it, then he'll lose the TV. Giving him a time will give him the excuse of "oh I didn't realise what the time was", unplugging the smart plug is pure guilt with no possible excuses.

jiggles wrote:Any smart plug that feeds into Google or Apple Home you’d imagine has the ability to report on when it’s been removed anyway, so I don’t think you really need to worry about him being crafty enough to bypass it without you knowing.

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Zilnad wrote:No better time to announce that Baby Zilnad is due early September. It's been eight long years of setbacks and struggles but looks like everything is finally working out. The last 6 months have flown by more quickly than I could have imagined.

Zilnad wrote:No better time to announce that Baby Zilnad is due early September. It's been eight long years of setbacks and struggles but looks like everything is finally working out. The last 6 months have flown by more quickly than I could have imagined.

Zilnad wrote:No better time to announce that Baby Zilnad is due early September. It's been eight long years of setbacks and struggles but looks like everything is finally working out. The last 6 months have flown by more quickly than I could have imagined.

jiggles wrote::o

Congrats, man.

Sprouty wrote:

jiggles wrote::o

Congrats, man.

Thanks mate! Due in January.

Slartibartfast wrote:Child number 3 en route soon. For a few brief days it'll be 3 kids under 4 years old.

Pray for Slarty.

jiggles wrote:

Zilnad wrote:No better time to announce that Baby Zilnad is due early September. It's been eight long years of setbacks and struggles but looks like everything is finally working out. The last 6 months have flown by more quickly than I could have imagined.

Congrats. Future Britain’s Worst Teenager in the making.

Our boy (3) is due to start nursery in September now which is filling me with dread. Doesn’t seem ready. We’re currently investigating ASD due to his delayed speech, repetitive behaviours and sensory issues. He’s in a special playgroup at the minute with other similar kids that have been assessed already so we’re expecting some sort of confirmed diagnosis soon. He’s not what you would picture when you think “autistic kid”. Sleeps great, is fairly social, fine around strangers, plenty of eye contact, no “meltdowns” really and is generally just full of joy and energy.

Our strongest suspicion right now is that he has hyperlexia. He has no trouble reading words, even short sentences, and has a pretty massive vocabulary of nouns now. He picks up the name of something or a question/answer on the first or second go and it sticks. It’s kind of funny that we can’t get him to say “hello” or “bye bye” really at all but if you ask him “what do they eat for breakfast in France?” he’ll confidently say “croissants!” every time. He can barely say the words to twinkle twinkle little star but he can play it on his keyboard no problem.

Anyway, yeah, we have the educational psychologist assessment this Thursday so we’re just praying he gets an assistant for starting school at least. Wouldn’t mind if he starts out in the special school to be honest, but spaces are scarce apparently.